Build A Professional Portfolio
Teachers Celebrate Personal Growth and Student Learning
A Professional Portfolio Provides Insight Into You as a Teacher
A portfolio provides an overview of your experience, introduces you as a professional and describes your competencies in relation to the expectations of the profession. In addition a portfolio also presents specific details to make your practice visible, articulates your beliefs about teaching and learning and the values that underpin those beliefs and through your reflections and professional learning plans indicates your vision of your future teaching practice.
First Section of the Portfolio
Includes Professional and Academic Credentials
*Ontario Teacher's Certificate
*Certificate of Qualification from the OCT
*Degrees/Diplomas/Trade Certificates
*Transcripts
*Resume
Organization of the remainder of the Portfolio
The portfolio organization reflects what teachers are expected to know and demonstrate in a teaching interview and in the classroom: ongoing professional learning, planning, assessment and evaluation, classroom management, subject area background, special education needs, inclusionary practices, technology, co-curricular contributions, and leadership and service.
These should be set out to correspond with The Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession.
Commitment to Students and Learning
*Lesson Plans with Differentiated Instruction *Photos of displays which encourage learning/provide models
Professional Knowledge
*Degrees, diplomas *copies of marked student work showing constructive comments
Teaching Practice
Overview of Unit Goals and instructional plans *Unit plan showing how lessons tie into learning expectations *Lesson Plan with reflections
Leadership and Community
*Give examples showing your involvement on a school committee
*Demonstrate your participation in a curriculum forum or on-line discussion of educational issues
Ongoing Professional Learning
Items you could include here:
*Annual Learning Plan
*Notes on a PD workshop you attended
*Workshop/Seminar/Conference certificates