A Beginning Teaching Portfolio Handbook

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.

The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook offers comprehensive information on preparing a teaching portfolio for a Web site or CD-ROM. This practical text not only demonstrates the process for developing a digital teaching portfolio, it also provides students with strategies and suggestions for creating an appealing package that is accessible to a diverse audience. The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook helps students understand the benefits of portfolios and how to use portfolios to enhance professional growth and success. This comprehensive guide is not only an essential learning tool but also a fabulous resource for students entering the teaching profession. When posted on the Web or burned on CD-ROM, digital portfolios provide easily accessible and professionally appealing representations of educators' work. But the process of producing a portfolio can be even more useful than the product. This text allows teachers to acquire skills while reflecting on their professional growth during development displaying pedagogical knowledge by using technological skills.

/*0205458394, Constantino, Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio*/Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio: A Guide for Success, 2/e 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.

This research-based book provides details on how educators can dramatically increase student achievement. It offers numerous experience-based ideas and strategies which can be applied to any school or district.This book will help you: establish a results-oriented focus on the curriculum, increase time-on-task and academic rigor for ALL students, provide a supportive accountability system for all staff members, identify and eliminate educational practices that lower student achievement, and introduce an achievement audit process that will increase student performance in any school or district.

This book and downloadable resources show school leaders how to develop teacher portfolios and put them into action. They will provide confidence and credibility as you engage in: - "high stakes" summative evaluations - initial hiring, tenure, and other key personnel decisions - fostering a school culture which encourages high levels of performance This book and downloadable resources provide a reliable and easy way for teachers to: - collect and analyze data about their effectiveness - monitor and improve their own performance - improve student learning Adopting the templates in this book and downloadable resources will enable you to define: - standards which describe actual duties and activities of teachers - behaviors which indicate the quality of teaching - "artifacts" which provide evidence of teaching and learning - scoring rubrics which assist in objective evaluation The downloadable resources, contain easy-to-use templates of performance assessment rubrics, feedback forms, and other documents to help you organize & implement Teacher Portfolios in your school.

Praise for The Teaching Portfolio "This new edition of a classic text has added invaluable, immediately useful material. It's a must-read for faculty, department chairs, and academic administrators." —Irene W. D. Hecht, director, Department Leadership Programs, American Council on Education "This book offers a wealth of wisdom and materials. It contains essential knowledge, salient advice, and an immediately useful model for faculty engaged in promotion or tenure." —Raymond L. Calabrese, professor of educational administration, The Ohio State University "The Teaching Portfolio provides the guidelines and models that faculty need to prepare quality portfolios, plus the standards and practices required to evaluate them." —Linda B. Nilson, director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University "Focused on reflection, sound assessment, and collaboration, this inspiring and practical book should be read by every graduate student, faculty member, and administrator." —John Zubizarreta, professor of English, Columbia College "All the expanded and new sections of this book add real value, but administrators and review committees will clearly benefit from the new section on how to evaluate portfolios with a validated template." —Barbara Hornum, director, Center for Academic Excellence, Drexel University "This book is practical, insightful, and immediately useful. It's an essential resource for faculty seeking promotion/tenure or who want to improve their teaching." —Michele Stocker-Barkley, faculty, Department of Psychology, Kishwaukee Community College "The Teaching Portfolio has much to say to teachers of all ranks, disciplines, and institutions. It offers a rich compendium of practical guidelines, examples, and resources." —Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Associate Provost for Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Teaching portfolios help our Board on Rank and Tenure really understand the quality and value of individual teaching contributions." —Martha L. Wharton, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity, Loyola University, Maryland

The Digital Teaching Portfolio Workbook: Understanding the Digital Teaching Portfolio Process is a practical book full of exercises and examples to help teachers at all levels develop a quality digital portfolio. This book provides activities that guide teachers through conceptualizing, organizing, and producing a teaching portfolio. It streamlines the development process and provides useful examples illustrating challenging aspects of production such as navigation and graphic design. Whether the eventual format of the portfolio is electronic or paper format, the steps presented will walk teachers through the recursive stages of portfolio creation and support them with accessible prose and relevant analogies.