Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio: A Guide for Success - Softcover

Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio: A Guide for Success, Third Edition, offers practical, comprehensive guidelines for developing standards-based paper or electronic professional teaching portfolios. This text leads future and in-service teachers through the rigorous process of documenting the qualities of good teaching: sound planning and preparation, able classroom management, attention to quality instruction, and continuous professional growth. Real-world examples accompany expert advice on both content and presentation, encouraging the creation of an effective portfolio that correlates evidence with national and state standards.

Are you looking for practical, yet comprehensive guidelines for developing a standards-based paper or electronic professional teaching portfolio?

 

Look no further! The third edition of Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio: A Guide for Success leads you through the rigorous process of documenting the qualities of good teaching: sound planning and preparation, able classroom management, attention to quality instruction, and continuous professional growth. Real-world examples accompany expert advice on both content and presentation to help you create an effective portfolio that correlates evidence with national and state standards.

 

Practical Features for Your Success:

• A standards-based framework throughout the guide aids in selection of appropriate evidence of performance.
• A step-by-step process for creating a paper or electronic portfolio in three distinct phases of development simplifies portfolio construction.
• Assessment instruments facilitate evaluation of portfolio content.
• Nearly 100 examples, 25 new to this edition, of content and evidence of performance from teacher and intern portfolios model the elements of the book.
• Tear-out worksheets assist in content development during the portfolio creation process.
• NEW! Expanded information on creating electronic portfolios includes techniques for evaluating the quality of technical aspects of the portfolio and outlines a method for converting a paper portfolio into an electronic one.
• NEW! References to web sites supply additional information about electronic portfolios, including tips for development, online examples, and rubrics for assessment.
• NEW! References to 15 professional organizations provide access to professional standards related to specific areas of certification.