Portfolios For Professional Development
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Professional Development for Language Teachers
Author | : Jack C. Richards,Thomas S. C. Farrell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2005-04-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780521849111 |
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This much-needed text provides a coherent and strategic approach to teacher development Teacher Development for Language Teachers examines ten different approaches for facilitating professional development in language teaching: self-monitoring, support groups, journal writing, classroom observation, teaching portfolios, analysis of critical incidents, case analysis, peer coaching, team teaching, and action research. The introductory chapter provides a conceptual framework. All chapters contain practical examples and reflection questions to help readers apply the approach in their own teaching context.
Putting Together Professional Portfolios
Author | : Christine Forde,Margery McMahon,Jenny Reeves |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2009-02-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781412946698 |
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With the increasing emphasis on continuing professional development for teachers and all educational practitioners, the use of portfolios to plan, chart, and review professional development is now widespread. Drawing directly from their experience of developing portfolios and portfolio-based assessment, and from current research, this book enables the reader to design and plan a portfolio, chart and analyze relevant professional experiences, reflect critically on practice, assess performance against standards and competences frameworks, present evidence of practice and achievements, and plan their continuing professional development. There are also chapter objectives, key questions and tasks in every chapter, which adds to the practical focus of the book.
Portfolios for Professional Development
Author | : Kari Smith |
Publsiher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1594545324 |
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In assessment, the portfolio has gained significant interest as a tool to monitor and appraise competence development in multiple domains of professional learning. In this book, a developmental use of assessment instruments is advocated, stressing a personalised or self-regulative and learning-oriented deployment of the assessment tool. Portfolio assessment viewed this way can support knowledge productivity of professionals, thus enhancing professional development. By this we mean the construction of knowledge through feedback and dialogue about performances as a recursive loop to inform the professional about accomplishment. Portfolio assessment therefore informs and scaffolds the learner to 'develop' further; it, so to speak, is pioneering development. Since the first introduction in several settings, teaching education, professional preparation, instructional program evaluation, student learning in several domains: nursing, teaching, training, and human resource development, portfolios have been studied extensively. It is challenging to gauge the routes along which the reasons for the interest in portfolios have shifted from one problem to the other. following lines during the past 15 years, shifting its perspective as insights grew and demands changed.
Developing Portfolios in Education
Author | : Ruth S. Johnson,J. Sabrina Mims-Cox,Adelaide Doyle-Nichols |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-07-21 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781412972369 |
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Developing Portfolios in Education: A Guide to Reflection, Inquiry, and Assessment, Second Edition takes preservice and inservice teachers through the process of developing a professional portfolio. It is designed to teach readers how traditional and electronic portfolios are defined, organized, and evaluated. The text also helps teachers to use their portfolios as an action research tool for reflection and professional development.
Developing Your Portfolio Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff
Author | : Marianne Jones,Marilyn Shelton |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2011-03-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781136853647 |
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Portfolios have often been used as a way for teachers to monitor and assess their students' progress, but this book picks up on the current trend of using portfolios to assess teachers themselves as part of their degree requirements. As a professional development tool, portfolios are also useful for classroom teachers in evaluating their practice, and in showcasing their skills and accomplishments for use in interviews. Veteran teacher educators Marianne Jones and Marilyn Shelton provide practical and comprehensive guidance specific to the needs of pre- and in-service teachers of young children. This thoroughly revised and updated new edition features: A flexible and friendly approach that guides students at varying levels of experience through the portfolio process. New material on the portfolio planning stage and additional coverage on the importance of developing a personal philosophy. A companion website with additional instructor materials such as printable templates, exercises for improving portfolio skills, and more. Both theoretical and practical, the book addresses issues and mechanics related to process and product, instruction and guidance techniques, the role of reflection, and assessment strategies. With concrete examples, rubrics, tips, and exercises, this book will provide a step-by-step guide to creating a professional teaching portfolio.
Handbook on Teacher Portfolios for Evaluation and Professional Development
Author | : Pamela Tucker,James Stronge,Christopher Gareis |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781317922483 |
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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.
Developing Portfolios for Learning and Assessment
Author | : Val Klenowski |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Educational evaluation |
ISBN | : 0750709871 |
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Drawing on the author's own experience of using and researching student portfolios, this book analyses the implications for the development of the portfolio for assessment.
Developing and Presenting a Professional Portfolio in Early Childhood Education
Author | : Nancy W. Wiltz |
Publsiher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : UVA:X030261812 |
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It demonstrates how to collect items for a professional Early Childhood Education portfolio and how to create/compile them in a professional manner in a binder for presentation upon graduation to obtain employment. As portfolios are sometimes started in Intro to ECE and compiled throughout the program, or introduced in a Curriculum course, or in a Student Teaching or capstone course, there are several points of entry for this supplement. Wiltz instructs the student what items to collect for the portfolio, how to compile/construct/label it, and then how to talk about it/present it.