Student Portfolios 

Last week you began to look at diverse ways you could share student information using a portfolio system. Using a portfolio allows you to track each child’s developmental progress with different artifacts and assessments that you include in it. Using a portfolio system is also a great tool to guide your conversations with parents during important conferences each year.

Last week, you chose a Portfolio method that you could potentially use to share student progress. For this week’s discussion, you will share the portfolio system that you created with your peers.

Prepare

To prepare for this discussion,

• Read Chapter 11 of the course text.
• Read the webpage, Building Student Ownership Through Portfolios and Student-Led ConferencesLinks to an external site..
• Review the three-minute video, Using a Learning Target Throughout a LessonLinks to an external site. .
• Read Reconceptualising the Role of the Child Portfolio in Assessment: How it Serves for ‘Assessment as Learning’Links to an external site..
• Read Construction and Application of an Online Child Portfolio Assessment SystemLinks to an external site..

Initial Post

In your initial post of at least 250 words,

• Share a link to your mini portfolio created for your week 4 assignment or attach it to the body of your discussion for your peers to view.
• Discuss what you like about the tool that you chose for creating a portfolio.
• Describe any experience that you may already have using portfolios with children.
• Explain how you will categorize and organize assessments and report progress using the portfolio system you created.
• Discuss one way you will involve children in the portfolio process to give them ownership of the process.