Portfolios

Portfolios are defined as a collection of the students work that either
shows their skills in a certain subject, or it could be used as an
assessment of improvement in a particular subject. I feel as a teacher
each student should have a folder with the work they have done in it,
and periodically it should be sent home for their parents to view and sign.
This portfolio would also pose as an assessment to the parents because
they would be able to see, if they need to have a conference with me
about their child’s educational performance. Portfolios should be kept
throughout each marking period in order to keep track of the students
work and progress and class and to see if I obtained my objective for
my class at the start of the year. Although portfolios should go home
once a week for parents to see them, they should be administered to
students at the end of the day closer to three o’clock in order to prevent
children teasing because of grades.


Though while Dr. Luongo was giving her last lecture she did come
across a good point. Students should have a say in what goes in
their portfolio, because they know what best represents their
learning goals. They alone are the only ones who know what they
want to achieve by learning, so their portfolio should be up to them
alone to decide what work or projects go into the portfolio. Because
the portfolios currently are going on with them to the next teacher
the student will have. These portfolios can help them by providing
the next teacher with the knowledge to know what subjects they
did good in, and what subject they struggled in. Portfolios are not
out to hurt students, they are there to be a crutch in the learning
process!