Module 8, Lesson 1: Completing Your Portfolio
Content: Jim Yoshioka
Presenter: Jim Yoshioka
Module 8, Lesson 2: Building an Online Teacher Portfolio
Content: Jim Yoshioka
Presenter: Jim Yoshioka
Module 8, Lesson 3: Earning Your Digital Badge
Content: Jim Yoshioka
Presenter: Jim Yoshioka
Congratulations! If you’ve been diligently working through the 8 module lessons, activities, and resources, you have hopefully now learned a wide variety of strategies and tips for applying for that job you want to get and putting together a great teacher portfolio. In the process you have hopefully reflected on your teaching beliefs, experience, and skills, collecting together documentation that shows it in action.
The final lesson (Module 8, Lesson 3) is optional and only for those interested in earning the TiPPS digital badge and getting some additional help. Thank you for going on this journey with us! Mahalo and aloha!
TiPPS HANDOUTS ON TEACHER PORTFOLIOS
Suggested timeline for putting together and developing a teacher portfolio (revised 2016)
ARTICLES ON TEACHER PORTFOLIOS
Wolfe-Quintero, K., & Brown, J.D. (1998). Teacher portfolios. TESOL Journal 7(6), 24-27: A good place to start – we often use this article for a quick overview of teacher portfolios, their contents, and uses in our workshop. However, it is no longer readily available. A good alternative is the following article, which is a precursor and contains much of the same content:
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching – Volume 6, No. 1: An issue totally devoted to a variety of issues regarding teacher portfolios.
WEBSITES ON TEACHER PORTFOLIOS & ARTIFACTS
Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University: Teaching Portfolios: Guidelines, tips, and examples of teacher portfolios, including a comprehensive list of artifacts.
Teaching Portfolios (DePaul University): Helpful guidelines, plus sample portfolios
RESOURCES FOR OTHER PHILOSOPHY STATEMENTS
Philosophy of Research Statements
Academic Careers: Research Statements (The Career Center, University of Washington)
Research Philosophy (University of Arkansas)
Graduate School Applications: Writing a Research Statement (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
Research Statements for Faculty Job Applications (Career Services, University of Pennsylvania)
Philosophy of Educational Administration Statements
Educational Leadership Philosophy (Louisiana State University Online)
Writing an Educational Leadership Philosophy Statement (Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
Philosophy of Advising Statements
Philosophy – Academic Advising (Purdue University)
Statement of Advising Philosophy (University of California, Berkeley)
Personal Philosophy of Academic Advising (NACADA Clearinghouse)
ARTICLES ON ONLINE TEACHER PORTFOLIOS
Offering a good set of guidelines for getting your electronic portfolio started.
Edutopia: Do I Need a Digital Teaching Portfolio?
Education World: Get Started with a Digital Teaching Portfolio
6 Steps to a Professional Online Portfolio for Teachers
SAMPLE ONLINE TEACHER PORTFOLIOS
The websites that follow were found via an internet search and are shared for you to view and learn from. (We’re not saying that any of them are exemplary, nor are we saying that they are not exemplary). As you peruse these portfolios, here are a few things to look for:
- How is the portfolio organized and presented?
- Do you get a clear idea about this person as a teacher? Are there sufficient and varied documents/examples to give you a fairly full picture?
- Do you get a clear idea about what the teacher believes about learning and teaching and how they carry it out in the classroom?
- Do aspects of teaching that are not included feel like they were omitted as a result of informed choices or as a result of a careless oversight that you feel should be rectified?
- What do you like or find effective? What was distracting or confusing?
17 Winning Teaching Portfolio Examples That Will Definitely Inspire You
Online Teaching Portfolio | Melanie Forehand (Vanderbilt University)
Teaching Portfolios | Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (University of Alberta)
Teaching Portfolios (DePaul University) – See Examples of Teaching Portfolios section
Portfolios at Penn State – see Gallery section
Electronic portfolios of former TiPPS participants (used by permission)
WEBSITE BUILDING SITES
Weebly – easy drag-and-drop website builder (with templates)
Wix – intuitive drag-and-drop web editor (with templates)
WordPress – build a blog, a full website, or a combo. Step-by-step guide can be found at https://www.wordpress.com/learn/
TIPS FOR BUILDING WEBSITES
Hanaoka, S. Websites – Your 24/7 Salesperson: This guide is more from a sales perspective, but the information about layout, comparison of different tools, and so forth are all very helpful.