Portfolio Pointers

The portfolio should show that you have beginner’s level competence in each of the 15 areas listed in the Science Education Program Outcomes. In EDSS300C time was spent talking about which classes you gained artifacts and evidence for each goal.  If you have saved your papers, projects, etc. you should not find this task difficult. You may include papers, essays, tests, labs, videotapes, projects, external evaluations, transcripts, etc. as evidence of achieving the outcome. You may use a single artifact for more than one competence. (If you do use a single artifact for multiple competencies you do NOT have to include multiple copies of the artifact. Simply refer the reader to the place where it is located.)

You should also have a brief description of how the artifact(s) show your achievement of the outcome or progress towards the outcome. You will have 15 brief descriptions ? one for each competence [a brief description is 1-2 paragraphs]. The descriptions should convince an outside reader (not Prof. Writer, Henriques or Martin) that you are competent in the area.

 

Your portfolios will be returned to you but the reflections for each competence will be put in your file.
 

You will be given an “incomplete” grade for one section of your student teaching. Once you pass the program outcomes with your portfolio, the incomplete will be changed to the appropriate student teaching grade (credit or no-credit).