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Below is a sample lesson plan for how to design a professional portfolio for college students.

Lesson Title:

Designing Your Professional Portfolio

Subject Area:

Education

Audience Grade Level:

College students Lesson Purpose: Students will get to know the importance of a porfolio and be able to develop their own professional portfolio.

Lesson Objectives:

  1. The students will identify the importance of an interview portfolio
  2. The students will identify the 5 performance standard categories of a professional portfolio
  3. The students will identify items to include within each performance standard category

Lesson Activities Lesson Activity #1 (Introduction):

Introduction: Introduce the idea of a portfolio, its importance and state briefly the performance standards. Then the students will watch the video, "Developing a Professional Portfolio: A Guide for Preservice and Inservice Teachers" Supporting Web Information: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/career-field/seminar12b.html and http://portfolios.education.wisc.edu/TeachingPortfolio.htm These websites are introduced during this period so that students can visit them on their own after this lesson. These websites provide details about the definition, importance of e-portfolios as well as other people's points of views.

Lesson Activity #2:

More discussions and wrap-up. Each student will identify 5 things that they have already done in student teaching that they could include in a professional portfolio.

Supporting Web Information:

http://academic.regis.edu/LAAP/eportfolio/software.htm
This page contains a list of e-portfolio commercial software with their brief information and prices. At this time, students can be interested in developing their own e-portfolio and such software information could be helpful to them.

 

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