I learned of a great website and shared it on twitter early in the semester: www.proteacher.org
I check it frequently as it has an entire section devoted to “beginning” or future teachers. Recently, I checked out one of their most recently updated sections: Teaching Portfolios. Since we are creating digital portfolios for CEP, I’d like to maintain and update mine in order to be able to use it during future interviews. The website had a lot of good tips about what to include in a portfolio, and maybe it’ll help you decide what to put it your digital portfolio (it helped me!)
- Pictures of you teaching lessons (or a video, if it’s a digital portfolio)
- Favorite lesson plans
- Student-made samples
- Rubrics and assessments you created
- Notes from parents, students, etc
- Teacher certificate and test scores
- Philosophy of education
This is an amazing website with a lot of relevant information for us as undergrads. What are some other things you think it’d be helpful to include in a teaching portfolio?
Stephanie said,
April 12, 2010 at 12:51 am
Thanks for the tip! This website is great! It will definitely come in handy when I begin to finalize my portfolio for my job interviews.
Maggie said,
April 15, 2010 at 1:27 am
Thanks for writing about this website
To answer your question though, when Prof. Dickson shared his online portfolio he told us that one thing a lot teachers do is just talk about themselves in their portfolios. He said one really important thing that lots of people are interested to see when hiring are STUDENTS work. I know that’s in the list you’ve got, but I’m just stressing here I guess 
That’s definitely one thing I kept in mind and will try to collect so that I can add that to my final portfolio.
schmi355 said,
April 15, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Wow! Great website and great advise! I’m going to bookmark this for future reference