A guide to using portfolios in the classroom, providing a framework educators may use to help them make decisions about the various issues they face when using portfolios in an educational setting. Includes activities and worksheets.
Demonstrates five types of journals for use by professional learning communities, each of which provides a framework to promote continuous learning and improved student achievement.
Discusses methods for observing and describing young childrens' work; considers protocols for examining and providing feedback to teachers on students' work and the instructional context for the work; and explores some of the important contexts and resources that support collaborative inquiry and reflection.
Contains a comprehensive portfolio for developing criteria for assessing school improvement including leadership, student achievement, quality planning, and demographic analysis.
Contains over eighty activities and more than thirty transparency masters for teachers to use in conjunction with two student workbooks that focus on portfolio and resume creation, and includes ideas for helping students in their endeavors.
