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Danube RegionProject Portfolio
An Innovative Teachers‘s Guide
Odessa 12/2012Franz Frech MEd
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Sharing your experience
Aim
Content
Formate/structure
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Ultimate aim of a project:
To change the situation of
a specific target group to the better +
specific focus on cooperation with
out-of-school partners
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• Innovative can mean that:
– Good practice is adapted, modified, further developed
– New target group– Unknown approach
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Portfolio (PF)
• Windows into your learning process• Collection of evidence of your work
• Systematically collected
• Reflective practice (Reflexion is the defining characteristic
of a portfolio)• Teachers and students are partners
Process + Results
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Portfolios
Record of acquisition of kowledge
and the adaption of new knowledge
in novel situations
over the period of the project
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Purpose of PF
• Facilitate and chart development• Highlight performance and capabilities
through the production of complex work-products
• Portfolios are living documents – they document major learning– Adaptions (additions,
deletions,reformation,reconfiguration of materials)
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Mindfulness
• Openess to new information
• Implicit awareness of more than one perspective
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Portfolios
• Foster development of knowledge, skills and dispositions (will, discipline, being critically reflective)
• Increasing self-assessment, reflection,observation...reflective practice
• Engaging in collegual dialogue
• Show growth over specific time
• Content in dialogue with students
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AIM
Get a clear picture of the whole
and how the parts relate
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Planning andorganizing for a PF
• Discipined and systematic approach
• Careful, realistic planning and organizing
• Clear view of the big picture
organize
plan
plan
result
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Content-overview 1
• Title page
• Table of contents
• Reflection on professional
growth - major learning achieved
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Content overview 2
• Project description • one page that includes a brief description of the
project (+ partners, coordinator)
• Evidence and rational (set of reasons)• Evidence pages – includes artifacts and personal
documents, rationales,
• Reflection• reflections associated with the specific project
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Title Page
• Important
• Good first impression
• Identifies the builder(s)
• Name, title, year
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Table of contents
• Two main purposes:– Information what is included– How you have organized the content
• Linear / nonlinear table of contents
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Reflection on overall professional growth
• Overview of your growth and change through your experiences as part of the project.
• Also reflections throughout the portfolio in conjuction with, and as part of, your evidence.
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Project description 1
• Driving question/challenge (brief description of the project) What is the project about?
• Aims/objectives
• Project partners /external contributors/cooordinator
• Main project activities
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Project description 2
• Main project products/output
• Target group
• Involvement of students
• Involvement of regional partners
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Reflection-lessons learned
• The defining feature of portfolios
• Covert experience into personal knowledge
• Providing evidence of growth and change over time
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Purposes of reflection
1. Experience and knowledge produce new meaningful learning
2. Connect theory to practice3. Strenghten a critical reflection
disposition4. Gain insight into your learning and
development5. Manage your emotions throughout the
learning process
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Reflection in practice
• Experiences you have as an observer of self and others
• Qualities and content of relationships
• Experiences you have as an implementer of activities
• Processes and products associated
with your activities (production of
artifacts)
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4 stepsin the reflection process
1. Observation and description
2. Analysis and interpretation
3. Insight and implications
4. Projections and planning
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What is evidence?
All components of the portfolio that support the builder‘s claims of competence with regard to knowledge, skills, dispositions, and accomplishments.
1. Personal documents (descriptive who you are)
2. Artifacts (descriptive of what you know, what you can do, what you have done).
Milestones, revised activityplans, our most important steps toward the goal…
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Exercise
Which artifacts could you include?
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Examples of evidence
Personal docs
• Professional growth plans
• Reflections• Evaluations• Transcripts …
Artifacts 1• Work samples• Lesson plans/units• Agendas of meetings• Internal/external
reports• Important agreements
with partners• Photos…
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Examples of evidence
Personal docs
• Philosophy statement• Reflections• Evaluations• Transcripts• Professional growth
Artifacts 2• Field work
journals/logs• Audio/video clips• Handbooks/dissemi-
nation products (flyers…)
• Contextual information about class/ kindergarden…
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Guidelines forselecting evidence
1. Express the voice of the builder2. Support the purpose of the PF3. Each piece should be weighted against criteria
to determine best fit.4. Must be explained clearly to communicate
connections and relevance5. The body of chosen evidence should be
evaluated to ensure balanced coverage of all criteria.
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Inventory yourevidence
• Planning and organizing are your best friends when it comes to portfolio building.
• Experiment with the tools
Organizing tool (doc)
Checklist for portfolio development (doc)
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Please:
• not too much
• your best pieces
• clear
• ongoing documentation
• work samples
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• I‘m looking forward to getting insights into your fascinating
experiencesFranz