Digital Teaching Portfolios on the Internet

While digital teaching portfolios may seem complicated, the following web site, Digital Teaching Portfolio Workbook Activities, provides examples of portfolios assembled by preservice teachers like yourselves that provide some interesting examples of their attempts at reflecting on standards, assembling artifacts, and explaining pedagogical approaches that conform to those standards for teacher preparation.

You'll notice, for example, that these portfolios, like the portfolios you'll be creating, reflect on the ways in which the writers' learning relates to standards for teacher preparation. According to their web site, the standards referenced in these portfolios, the INTASC Standards, were authored by INTASC, or "the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium . . . [to] reflect the professional consensus of what beginning teachers should know and be able to do. The standards and the key indicators associated with them . . . . provide the framework for the rubrics used to assess the products." After you've had a chance to look at some of these portfolios, how would you evaluate them? Which did you think provided the most appropriate and inspiring approaches to teaching? Which responses addressed most directly and convincingly the standards they were meant to illustrate?