Teachers Notes Lesson 1
Teacher Notes
Introduction
During the introduction activity the teacher should be encouraging all students to provide answers to the questions. Teacher should be focusing on students who may not normally contribute to class discussions.
Excerpt Focus Questions
Teacher should ask the following questions about the Helen Barrett excerpt. Teacher should guide students to answering these questions and may need to prompt students with other questions to guide their thinking process.
1. What can creating a portfolio do for the author? Begin learning at different points, challenge original insights, allow for revision and relfection.
2. What does it mean that learning is a process not a product? Through revision and relfection students should become aware of themselves as learners and their achievement of goals. The final product is a more aware student, not necessarily a complete portfolio.
3. Why is it important that the Electronic Portfolio be "owned" by the learner and expressed in the learners "voice"? Since learning is a process in portfolio creation, it is important for the portfolio to reflect the learner and their individual learning journey.
During group discussion teacher should focus on eliciting answers from students about each portfolio viewed. Once again, teacher should be focused on guiding students to think critically about each issue. This may come from question prompts and/or guiding statements. Teacher should supplement student answers with these notes. Putting all answers on the board.
What is an Electronic Portfolio?
- A way to organize, summarize and share artifacts and ideas about your personal learning experiences (Teacher Tap).
- Sample of work to show range of abilities, experiences, attitudes and achievements that are entirely student constructed, designed and created.(Teacher Tap),(Creating Electronic Portfolio's).
- “An educational portfolio contains work that a learner has collected, reflected, selected, and presented to show growth and change over time” (Barrett, Helen).
- Electronic Portfolio’s allow for the sharing of multimedia artifacts (Teacher Tap).
Why are Electronic Portfolio’s important?
- Electronic Portfolio’s help with personal and academic growth through a reflective process (Teacher Tap).
- They can be used as assessment tools to document the growth and skills acquisition (Barrett, Helen).
What are the major components of Electronic Portfolio's?
- Self-Reflection is the most crucial aspect of the Portfolio Process (Barrett, Helen).
- Documents chosen by the students which include a variety of skills, effort, information and ability.
- Unique and personal.