Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
3. Professional certification, education, and experience will be focused around accumulated artifacts such as; current resume, transcripts, student-teaching evaluations, certification documentation, awards, certificates, seminars, items to show the value of life-long learning.
4. Technology based learning is necessary in todays expanded educational endeavors. The computer and worldwide web have changed the way information is stored and shared across the globe. With this in mind it is crucial to have artifacts that reflect the integration of technology within the portfolio. There will be examples of educational brochures, power point presentations, Prezi’s, and teacher-made materials to highlight personal creativity and utilization of technology. These materials will include personal curriculum plans, cooperative learning strategies, behavior intervention plans, individualized education programs, and rubrics. (GCU, 2009).
2. Personal flare will be used to set myself apart from the rest of the qualified applicants. This flare will be shown through artifacts such as; letter of introduction, a philosophy statement, a legacy statement, a letters of recommendation from past employers, co-workers, parents, and other professionals will be included to show professional certification, education, experience, personal character, work ethic, and as evidence of collaboration skills.
5. Volunteering in my local school and community is an important part of my life. This section will show a positive commitment to helping others. Dedication and desire to serving my students will be shown through the artifacts presented. Philanthropy creates unity in the community and love in the soul. Passion to servitude is an essential part of being an educator. This section will include pictures, newspaper articles, related web links, newsletters, and media related artifacts.
1. Organized professional Introduction prepared in a leather bound binder with dividers and titles corresponding to table of contents, sheet protectors to keep artifacts clean, crisp, and presented in a personable fashion. My name will be prominent on the cover page with a picture of me positively collaborating with diverse elementary aged students and a co-teacher. It is very important for my first impression to encompass evidence of multi-cultural diversity and disability awareness because this area is very diverse.
6. The road to success section will include artifacts related to the direction of my future. This is where I define my future goals and aspirations. As an educator I want to promote a positive sense of longevity in my career. More importantly build a sense of trust that I will be collaborate unconditionally with my students, parents, colleagues, and community (Scholastic Inc., 2013). This is an essential part of my personal character. This section will contain educational journals, books, GCU references, and inspirational pieces that have been used to form my strengths, morals, and values in a rural community as an elementary school special education teacher.
Part 1
Creating a professional portfolio is essential for career placement in today’s fast paced ever changing technological world. The perfect portfolio is designed to showcase several career making variables. These variables include, who am I, as an educator? What are my views on collaboration, co-teaching, and community building? How will I be effective in the classroom with planning, assessing, evaluating, behavior modifications, adapting to different cultures, disabilities, and content building? A professional portfolio highlights personal experiences, standards, and classroom management strategies. The overall idea is to make a positive impact on the reader to make a clear decision to “why” I am the perfect fit for that school and career position. The portfolio can open or close a door to an interview based on content.
The portfolio is the first impression for a prospective employer. It is very important to have a clear vision/scope of the portfolio intensions in order to properly design an effective professional hiring tool. The portfolio needs to be kept current and added to as new artifacts become available. When choosing artifacts it is important to keep in mind personal attributes to reflect an honest positive professional personal self-image (GCU, 2009). The portfolio will include artifacts that quintessentially represent a positive self-image, personal values, personal experiences, attributes, and standards that will mesh with the other teaching professionals of the school (GCU, 2009). The professional disposition of learners will be included to provide validity to personal character. Thus, defining me as a life-long learner and expressing my devotion to educating others.
Preparing a professional portfolio will open the road to successful interviews. After viewing the portfolio the interview panel will have a better idea of my character and fit within the school, staff, and community. The portfolio again is used at the actual interview. It will serve as a road map through the hiring process. Ideas or aspects that I want to discuss will already be in front of the interviewer(s) for me to prompt and to use as a visual aid or to add content to back up what I am explaining (GCU, 2009). Here the portfolio is used to open a conversation topic that I want to effectively highlight with the interviewer(s) panel.
After being hired, the portfolio does not get filed in the dusty archives box. Instead, it is filed in a “tickle” folder or a “to do” folder. This is done so that it can be updated often with new classes, seminars, student papers, or to add personal flares. If stored in archives, the new information may be put off and not added until the portfolio is needed for job placement. Items not added can be misplaced, destroyed, or too overwhelming to add when it is needed at a later date.
Having an effective professional portfolio is essential to defining who I am and how I will be an asset to the employer. The portfolio is also a personal guide to stay on track with personal goals and objectives. The world is changing and innovating daily, doesn’t stand to reason that the portfolio should change with the times as well? A polished professional portfolio is essential to exemplify why I am the most quintessential candidate for a career position in my local rural community as an elementary school special education educator.
The portfolio will be divided into several sections. These sections will have artifacts to support who I am as an educator. Not all the artifacts are expected to be in the first portfolio. The portfolio will grow as my experiences and knowledge grows. The artifacts to be included in my professional portfolio with justification for each standard include:
When choosing artifacts for a professional portfolio it is important to keep in mind personal attributes to reflect an honest positive professional personal self-image. The portfolio will include artifacts that quintessentially represent my commitment to the professional disposition of learners. The portfolio artifacts will provide a prospective employer with a visual of who I am before they meet me. There will be several important artifacts placed in the professional portfolio to be updated and kept current. The professional portfolio will include the Ten Standards with rationales using InTASC Standards (Pearson, 2014. Pg. 23). “The rationales will include the following questions about the artifacts taken from Pearson Education Inc.,
a. What is the experience reflected in this document?
b. What is the artifact?
c. What does this work say about my growing competence?
d. Where and why? Under which standard is it filed? Why there?
e. Now what? What will I do differently in the future?
f. How will the skills I’ve gained transfer to new experiences?” (Pearson, 2014. Pg. 21)
g. Positive and relative artifacts will support the standards.
The artifacts put into the portfolio need to truly represent the individual. Artifacts that a person cannot easy or quickly explain should not be added to the portfolio. A person should not add information that is misleading or that may be misinterpreted. Negative information about the educational system should not be included (GCU, 2009).