How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers

by Dorothy M. Campbell, Pamela Bondi Cignetti, Beverly J. Melenyzer

This versatile and practical book helps pre- and in-service teachers create teaching portfolios to be used effectively in interviews and throughout their teaching careers. Portfolio development serves as a fair, authentic, broad-based, and impartial means of teacher assessment. The growing emphasis on creating and maintaining professional teaching portfolios enables pre-service and in-service teachers to play a more active role in charting their own professional growth and then demonstrating their competence and achievements. This manual provides clear, manageable, step-by-step guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction, Reference

128 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]

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]

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]

Pretty outdated for a book that was most recently updated in 2014.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