Portfolio Development what is a portfolio?

Three of the Four Components 

of Portfolios

Three Types of Portfolios

Purpose

Process

Audience

Product

Evidence

Showcase

Process Portfolio

A teacher is creating a process portfolio with the following goal: incorporating cooperative learn-

ing into his or her classroom over a school year.

Purpose:

To document the integration of cooperative learning into the classroom

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Audience(s):

Self and principal

Types of Evidence:

Staff development certificate and handouts on cooperative learning, lesson plans incorporating

cooperative learning over a school year, student work from cooperative groups, copy of grade

book showing “grades” from cooperative learning assignments, student surveys about the coop-

erative learning process, self-evaluation notes from the teacher showing changes made after

each cooperative learning lesson, teacher’s summary of thoughts about the cooperative learn-

ing process

Placed in:

A three-ring notebook

EXAMPLE 1