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This book is based on the INTASC principles - the most widely recognized and used set of national standards for classroom educators in the U.S. "Specifically, it teaches candidates how to select powerful artifacts of their teaching and how to construct meaningful reflective statements in the context of powerful professional portfolios" -- Preface.

"'Digital Portfolios, Second Edition: Powerful Tools for Promoting Professional Growth and Reflection' provides a framework and strategies for developing a digital portfolio that records professional growth and development goals, and celebrates achievements. This complete resource offers guidelines and techniques for each step in the process, from determining your audience and selecting material from a personal archive, to defining, producing, and...

Provides the practical information instructors and writing program administrators need to use the portfolio method successfully in a writing course. Ideal companion to Portfolio Keeping, a guide for students, also by Nedra Reynolds and Rich Rice.

A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course and is an invaluable tool for documenting and reflecting on the quantity and quality of student learning. Illustrated through examples of course portfolios created through a four-year project on peer review of teaching, this book demonstrates that well-designed peer review can be integrated into the daily professional...

CD-ROM contains powerpoint slides, video clips, templates, sample documents and electronic links for creating a portfolio.

With a focus on using portfolios to show one's work throughout a professional teaching career, this compact, easy-to-read volume provides prospective and current teachers both the foundation and the specifics to be successful in their portfolio building endeavors. A two-part organization serves a two-fold purpose: first, setting the stage for portfolio building for students and novice teachers who have yet to engage in this activity; and, second,...

In Journals as Frameworks for Professional Learning Communities, Mary E. Dietz demonstrates five types of structured journals expressly tailored to the scope and purpose of professional learning communities (PLCs). Each of the journals in this guide follows a clearly defined four-step process--purpose, focus, process, and outcome--and provides a framework that promotes collaboration, continuous learning, and improved student achievement. --From publisher's...

In Teacher Portfolios, Rogers and Danielson explain that portfolios can be used much more effectively if teachers have firsthand experience documenting themselves as readers and writers. As teacher educators, the authors require their students to keep portfolios. In return, Rogers and Danielson maintain their own portfolios, modeling the process of collecting, selecting, and reflecting. Their book presents that process, with helpful information on...