How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers

by Dorothy M. Campbell

Fifteen years in the marketplace, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, by Dorothy M. Campbell, Beverly J. Melenzyer, Diane H. Nettles, Richard M. Wyman, Jr., has grown to be the preeminent guidebook for teachers who need guidance in portfolio development from start to finish. Thousands of pre-service and in-service teachers have followed the tools provided in this uniquely versatile and practical book with its clear, manageable guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers. In seven concise chapters, the latest edition of this best-selling text offers step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, using the 2011 InTASC national teaching standards as the basis for the organization throughout the text. The text provides guidance for educators on how to assemble the portfolio, choosing standards, and organizing the material around teaching standards. Artifact possibilities are included, as well as how to use the portfolio throughout one's teaching career, as well as interview questions, and ways to use the portfolio in an interview. The final chapter is devoted to showing teachers how to pull it all together in an electronic portfolio. The end-matter features professional affiliates, developing a "portfolio at-a-glance," and a helpful Glossary of key terms. Clearly written with ample real-life examples throughout, the text is simple enough to use without outside help so that novice and experienced teachers alike can independently create a portfolio that showcases their strengths in each of the InTASC standards. The most concise and applicable teaching portfolio development text around, How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, Sixth Edition, gently guides its audience-whether student teachers, new teachers, tenured teachers, and even master teachers- to a greater understanding and success in creating a professional portfolio to the best of one's abilities, showcasing each individual's talents and contributions in the most professional and unique of ways.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Reference, Nonfiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published July 3, 1996

Reviews

[Stephen]

A resource for students thinking about how to build mini-portfolios in Technology for Teaching and Learning.

The internship seminar uses this book as a text for helping student to prepare for their PERB culminating performances. One of the important features connecting it to EDU345 is its description of how build an eportfolio.

[Ann Tracy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was okay, but nothing new. Building an electronic portfolio is required in my program, but I hear from area teachers that districts don't care about them or look at them in the hiring process. May use some of the ideas about creating a brochure with the highlights from your electronic portfolio.

[Noelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

A quick and focused text to guide educators through the process of developing a professional portfolio. I particularly appreciated the sixth chapter, which shared hundreds of examples of artifacts one could include in a portfolio.

[Katie Loftin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty outdated for a book that was most recently updated in 2014. Most of the advice is good though.