Preface
1: Planning Your Portfolio Course
Portfolio Types
Portfolios For Learning
Portfolios for Presentation or Evaluation
The Electronic Portfolio
Technology Literacy
Common Tools
Navigational Schemes and Metaphors
DECISION POINT #1: Portfolio Types
Choice, Variety, Reflection
Early Planning for your Portfolio Course
General Guidelines
DECISION POINT #2: Setting Up Guidelines
Scheduling And Pace
Other Course Planning Considerations
2. Collecting Artifacts
Why Keep a Teaching Portfolio?
Starting Your Own Portfolio
Possible Purposes
Possible Audiences
3. Selecting Artifacts
Selecting Artifacts from a Rhetorical Perspective
Situation And Audience
Habit And Responsibility
Self-Presentation
Arrangement
Audience
Helping Students Make Selections
Generative Questioning
Pre-Conference Planning
Conferencing
4. Reflecting
The Reflective Learning Habit
Postwrites and Companion Pieces
Sample Postwrite
Specific Questions
Working With the Working Folder
Assigning the Reflective Introduction
DECISION POINT #3: The Reflective Element
Pros and Cons of Modeling Reflective Introductions
Teaching Ideas
5. Assessing the Portfolio
On-Going Assessment
Summative And Formative Evaluation
Challenging Students' Assumptions about Assessment
Ways To Assess
Reading and Grading the Portfolio
Developing A Scoring Guide
Getting the Grading Done
Sample Reflective Introduction Passages
Glow and Schmooze
Judging Degrees Of Schmooze
Selected Annotated Bibliography on Teacher-Graded Classroom Portfolios
Appendix A
Appendix B
Works Cited