Triad K Portfolio

Fall 2012

Due Tuesday, 11/27 at the beginning of Seminar

What is a portfolio?

A portfolio represents a student’s systematic and multifaceted selection, arrangement, and presentation of their work over a period of time. A portfolio displays the product (a construction of a text) and a process (a construct) of the student’s ability to explore the interconnections of their own work, processes, and growth. In addition, the portfolio offers your Triad K instructors a broader and deeper view of your performance and learning throughout the semester as well as the responsibility you have taken for your own success. The portfolio process also supports the First Year Learning Community Program’s emphasis on individuals focusing on their own processes of learning and taking responsibility for their own academic and personal success.

Throughout the course of the semester, you have been collecting and storing documents in your Student Archive that you have determined to be significant to your Triad K experience / first-year Islander experience. As your Student Archive has grown, you have grown too. This growth began with tracking your progress in the Triad K community at TAMUCC. Drawing from your own Student Archive, we are now asking you to construct a Triad K Portfolio to showcase evidence of your growth as a student, as a learner, and as an individual. In this Triad K Portfolio, we challenge you to reflect on your own learning process and growth over the last 16 weeks as well as take ownership of this growth in learning and character.

Selecting Evidence

To build this Triad K Portfolio, you will select evidence from the documents you have collected for your Student Archive this semester. An effective portfolio should not include everything you have put into your Student Archive. You must take an active role in choosing which artifacts to highlight in the portfolio by considering howand why each of your selected documents are significant in telling your story as a member of Triad K and as a first-year Islander.

Tell Your Story to Your Triad K Instructors

Using the evidence you have chosen to include in your Triad K Portfolio, you will narrate your own story to tell us, your Triad K instructors, about your most significant experiences as a member of Triad K at TAMUCC. This document will mix the personal with the academic, allowing you to reflect on your experiences while also arguing why each piece of evidence in your Triad K Portfolio is significant to your narrative.

Consider the values, ambitions, and habits you hope to preserve and those you may wish to change in the future. You should also consider how you have changed since the beginning of the semester (change over time) and why these documents are the most significant to your experiences (historical significance).

Your story should:

  • Not exceed (3) pages, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font.
  • Consider its audience – your Triad K instructors.
  • Include an introduction – what is the purpose of this document?
  • Utilize paragraphing, transitions, and topic sentences to guide your reader(s) through the text.
  • Discuss the evidence you have selected to construct your Triad K Portfolio as well as why and how they are significant to your experiences in Triad K at TAMUCC.
  • Include a conclusion – why does this document and the experience of constructing this Triad K Portfolio matter to you?

Submitting Your Triad K Portfolio

You will submit your Triad K Portfolio in a two-pocked folder with brads.

  • Selected pieces of evidence should be organized in the left-hand pocket
  • Your story should be secured in the brads of the folder
  • Your name should be clearly written on the outside of the folder and on all documents included in your Triad K Portfolio.