Portfolio is a kind of business card, solid and impressive, which characterizes your performance, the qualities necessary to achieve success. It contains all your achievements, highlights the stages of creative growth. It should not be thought that this is only a voluminous summary. The portfolio helps to analyze the work, record the results achieved, and monitor personal growth.
Paper and digital portfolio
There are two ways to provide information. We are talking about a paper portfolio and an electronic one. Paper includes various kinds of information about your activities. This is a folder with loose leaflets. In our time of universal computerization and involvement in the World Wide Web of the Internet, the electronic version is becoming more and more relevant. In this case, a portfolio is a set of documents collected and stored electronically. However, just saving the files in a folder on your computer is not enough. After all, in this case, they will be available only to you. As a result, online versions have become very popular, published on the Internet most often in the formpersonal site.
Features of designing a teacher's portfolio
Actors and models make up their portfolio of photographs. But most people will need a different kind of business card, containing mostly documents, extracts, photocopies, not photographs. For example, a teacher's portfolio.
In the conditions of a modern school, it becomes more and more necessary for the presentation of a teacher, summing up the results of work, certification for a higher category. Portfolio is, of course, for the most part will consist of various kinds of documents. As a rule, the following sections are distinguished in the teacher's portfolio:
- positive dynamics of achievements of students of this teacher over the past 4-5 years;
- the results of the teacher's activities as a class leader, leading circles;
- use of modern technologies in work;
- generalization of the experience of pedagogical work and its dissemination;
- participation in various competitions and olympiads;
- taking courses to improve your skills.
Such information can be presented both in a paper folder and in the form of a teacher's website.
What does a student portfolio include?
The student's portfolio contains not only information about his academic success, but also information about extracurricular activities (participation in circles, sections). This helps to form a general opinion about the personality of the student, his aspirations, interests. A portfolio is compiled in free form, but, as a rule, has sections related towith the student's biography, his academic success, participation in olympiads and competitions, with various achievements (awards, diplomas, photos of prizes, etc.), participation in extracurricular activities, achievements and victories in competitions in circles, sections. You can also include student work (essays, drawings, applications).
So, the benefits of a portfolio are undeniable. It serves both for personal orientation, building a model for further self-improvement, and as a business card representing you to a teacher, partner, employer.
