Your Teaching Portfolio
(Typical Contents, LISTED BY COURSE)
Version 2012-03.13
Your teaching portfolio is an integral part of your Teacher Education program. It is not only a resource of tools and strategies, but is also a requirement of the supervised teaching experience, mandated by California Teacher Credentialing requirements, and commonly expected during teaching interviews because it can show summary examples of your best work.
What follows is a rough list of possible suggestions for some items that you may wish to include in your portfolio. Don’t feel that you should include all of the items in every section! You only need enough material to adequately address having met each general section.
We suggest that your teaching portfolio be organized to mirror the Teacher Performance Expectations within a larger framework of the six California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP). The lists of possible artifacts by course below are for your convenience only.
Cover Page (usually with your photo)
Table of Contents (with links, if electronic)
Educational Philosophy Statement (usually one page)
Résumé (usually one or two pages)
Academic Information (coursework, transcripts, and/or student teaching info)
Letters of Recommendation and/or Evaluations (e.g. from student teaching)
Artifacts (organized by CSTP standard, as follows)
Standard 1: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Standard 2: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments
Standard 3: Understanding and Organizing Subject Matter
Standard 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences
Standard 5: Assessing Student Learning
Standard 6: Developing as a Professional Educator
Ed460:
Multicultural checklist [CSTP 1]
CRP article analysis and graphic organizer [CSTP 1 or 2]
CRP vocabulary delineation [CSTP 1 or 2]
Success lifeline [CSTP 1 or 6]
Ruby Payne poverty reflection [CSTP 2]
Wong classroom management activity [CSTP 2]
Multicultural checklist; multicultural practicum; ELA lesson plan [CSTP 4]
Final class activity; display boards; scenarios [CSTP5]
E-portfolio creation [CSTP5, TPE 2]
Ed462:
Strategy notebooks; lesson plans; fieldwork logs [CSTP 1]
Lesson plan; fieldwork logs; strategy notebook [CSTP 3]
Lesson plans [CSTP 4]
Lesson plans; running record assessment [CSTP 5]
Ed464:
Strategy notebooks; lesson plans; fieldwork logs; fieldwork lesson observation; cultural literacy project [CSTP 1]
Lesson plan; fieldwork logs; strategy notebook [CSTP 3]
Lesson plans [CSTP 4]
Lesson plans; Silviroli assessment [CSTP 5]
Ed466:
Strategy notebooks; lesson plans; fieldwork logs; fieldwork lesson observation; cultural literacy project [CSTP 1]
Lesson plan; fieldwork logs; strategy notebook [CSTP 3]
Lesson plans [CSTP 4]
Lesson plans; secondary reading assessment [CSTP 5]
Ed470:
Picture file rubric; dyad presentation rubric; strategy charts; ELD lesson; SDAIE lesson; fieldwork journal; all handouts (theory packets, ELD packet, SDAIE packet; Prop. 227 info, etc.) [CSTP 1]
Professional growth research analysis [CSTP 6]
Ed472:
ITB section of lesson plans, including adaptations for DI and GI; DI and GI lesson plans, including adaptations for developmental stages; reflective analysis based on field experience teaching DI and GI lessons; teaching lessons with adaptations foe ELL [CSTP 1]
Pre-planning section of lesson plans for DI and GI [CSTP 3]
LAS chart with sources, including student-developed inventories for multiple intelligences, learning modalities; DI and GI lesson plans, including pre-planning section, adaptations, and reflective analysis based on field experience teaching lessons [CSTP 4]
Reflective analysis based on field experience teaching DI and GI lessons [CSTP 6]
Ed474:
Integrated Thematic Unit, plus the assessment within the practice lesson [CSTP 1]
Fieldwork experience; supervising teacher’s evaluation of fieldwork [CSTP 2]
The resources used to the create lessons for the Integrated Thematic Unit [CSTP 3]
Sections of the completed TPA-3 [CSTP 4]
Assessment done during Integrated Thematic Unit practice session; evidence from fieldwork [CSTP 5]
Integrated Thematic Unit culminating activities; class feedback sheets and rubric; reflection papers generated [CSTP 6]
Ed476:
Content-specific standards based GI unit; content-specific standards PowerPoint lesson; content-driven standards-based cross-curricular unit [CSTP 1]
Unit plan overview [CSTP 2]
Book review; content-specific standards based GI unit; content-specific standards PowerPoint lesson; content-driven standards-based cross-curricular unit [CSTP 3]
Learning about Students form; unit plan overview; instructional strategies assignment; content-specific standards based GI unit; content-specific standards PowerPoint lesson; content-driven standards-based cross-curricular unit [CSTP 4]
Assessment strategies assignment; Task 3 assessment reflection [CSTP 5]
Interview; book review [CSTP 6]
SpEd457:
“101 strategies” list (from course portfolio); strategies list matched to disabilities under I.D.E.A. and Sec. 504 [CSTP 1]
Student-enhanced lesson for special needs learners; journal entries on diversity (from course portfolio) [CSTP 2]
Individual disability strategy matches; enhanced lesson [CSTP 4]
Student-created “assessment notebook” organized to address special needs students [CSTP 5]
Peer critique and personal response to enhanced lesson and behavioral support poster; student-created evaluation and personal goals for the course [CSTP 6]