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Timetable for Portfolio Development Student Teachers Portfolio and Professional Portfolio Student Teachers:
If you did not start your professional portfolio in the FOED 101 class as a freshman, you will need to develop a student teaching portfolio/professional portfolio in the fifteen (15) weeks of your student teaching field experience. The following time suggestions may help complete your portfolio in a timely fashion:

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Date	Suggested Activities for Portfolio Development	Check
Week 1	Make all necessary purchases of materials.	.
.	View suggested Internet sites relating to materials purchasing.	.
.	Compare list of requirements from student teacher seminar professors with the suggested list on this site (and as discussed in portfolio seminar) to see which items overlap. Write a one page reflection on what you expect to gain from the student teaching experience.	.
Week 2	Begin to visit all Internet sites relating to development of a professional portfolio.	.
.	Begin collection of hardcopy printouts of helpful sites to use as a handy reference or consider purchasing one of the suggested manuals that take you step-by-step through the process of portfolio development.	.
.	Develop a filing/sorting system for items that go into student teaching portfolio and one for your professional portfolio. Expanding folders found at office supply stores are great for this. Also, a couple of nice cardboard boxes work well for this task.	.
Week 3	Go through all old files to search for awards, certificates of merit, commendations, membership certificates to professional organizations, etc. File in expanding folder for professional portfolio.	.
.	Make a list of three names of people you would like to ask for a recommendation letter for your professional portfolio. Be sure to include addresses.	.
.	Check student teacher portfolio requirement list for materials that must be generated at each placement. File in student teaching portfolio expanding file (box).	.
Week 4	Make initial decision on theme or overall "feel" of the portfolio(s).	.
.	Draw, sketch, or computer generate mock-up dummies of the front cover.	.
.	List possible eye-appealing divider sheets that carry the theme throughout the portfolio. Make thumbnail sketches.	.
.	Begin to collect any quotes you want to use (optional).	.
.	Type all tabs and insert into empty divider sheets (use rough, hand-written papers to fill the space until you decide on how the final divider sheets will appear).	.
Week 5	Purchase any specialty paper you want to use on the over or for the divider pages.	.
.	Make sure you have taken photographs at your first student teaching placement that "tell" something insightful about your teaching there. Four-by-six pictures are nice; you can crop any extraneous images. Consider a collage with you interacting with students. Look in the photo section of Wal-Mart to find pre-cut, brightly colored, school-related shapes (apples, bells, school buses, desks, books,etc.). These make a plain page look very interesting and still leave room for a brief description of what is taking place in the picture.	.
.	All pictures should be attractively mounted and clearly labeled. Here is a place you can show some creativity and color.	.
Week 6	Check requirement list for student teaching portfolio (per seminar professor). Are you satisfied that you have meaningful samples of student work from this placement? Take any samples too large for 8 1/2 x 11 plastic sheets to a copy store and have the copy reduced to fit. No rough edges.	.
.	Review rough draft of educational philosophy started in portfolio seminar. Make any additions, deletions, or revisions based on what you have learned during your first placement. Share with a colleague for reinforcement or recommendations. Is it clear, realistic, grammatically correct, and true to what you believe?	.
Week 7	Go through the expanding file (box) marked "Student Teaching Portfolio" to compare what you have gathered with the requirement list. Organize in order based on requirement list. If satisfied, mark this section, "First Placement" and start a new section for second placement.	.
.	Use post-it notes to indicate which items should also be included in the professional portfolio. Example: Student teaching portfolio requires two (2) unit plans, each with one sample lesson plan. You may want to select the best one of these for your professional portfolio.	.
Week 8	Decide what technology component your portfolio will have. You might decide to do a HyperStudio (or similar program) presentation about yourself or you might elect to use FrontPage or Netscape Composer (or similar service) to develop your own web site. You might also opt to do both. Use one piece of paper to sketch out what you would like your first page to look like. How many links do you want? To where? After you decide what type of technology you want to use, look at what others have done with personal web sites. Add to and adjust according to the information you want to include.	.
.	Set up your own calendar/time-frame to be completed with your technology project by Week 14 of your student teaching field experience.	.
Week 9	Review all portfolio files to find evidence of : Planning; communication with cooperating teachers, students, parents; varied teaching strategies (multiple intelligences); demonstration of creativity and critical thinking activities with students; classroom management techniques; self-evaluation and reflections; unit plans and lesson plans showing knowledge of content; professional goal setting.	.
.	Make a list of any deficiencies and target times to have them included in the portfolio file(s).	.
Week 10	Begin to make entries into the student teaching portfolio from the first placement. The tabs should be in the same order as the list of requirements. For each entry, be sure you can verbalize why you chose that particular entry and what it tells about you as an educator.	.
.	Insert creative divider sheets that are in keeping with the theme of the cover of your portfolio. Make sure the cover of your student teaching portfolio includes your name, permanent address and telephone number, and the title "Student Teaching Portfolio".	.
.	Decide what tabs/dividers you will need for your Professional Portfolio and make a preliminary outline.	.
.	Investigate resume formats to find one that you like. Begin to write your resume, leaving blanks for information you need to research. Make list of all information you still need, where to find it, and a time frame for getting the information. Commercial services are also available to help you with writing your resume.	.
Week 11	Contact the people who you are asking for a written recommendation. These may be included in your Professional Portfolio.	.
.	Check your technology plan and timetable. Include hardcopy printouts of your HyperStudio and/or web site. It is a good idea to save your HyperStudio presentation on a disk and include the disk in a special plastic sheet disk holder.	.
Week 12	Begin creating tabs for your professional portfolio and enter items you are sure you can defend. In other words, is each entry an insight into your professional background, your talents, your achievements, and your future professional goals?	.
Week 13	Compare your completed portfolio with the list of requirements. Make a list of any items that need to be added or adjusted.	.
.	Look at your portfolio as a whole and ask, "Does this portfolio telll my educational and professional story?" If so, reflect on each section of the portfolio and include a sheet at the beginning of each section that is a statement of rationale for that section. In other words, this is a statement that will allow people who view the portfolio to make valid interpretations of the evidence of teaching and learning that you have included. Give a general description of what is included in a particular section, explain why it is included and what it represents.	.
Week 14	Share your portfolio with the people on your Portfolio Review List (cooperating teacher or other educational professional, peer student teacher, a respected friend, family member or other respected adult.	.
Week 15	You will be notified of the exact date that your portfolio will be reviewed by your Professional Portfolio Trainer at TTU.	.
.	Have fun! Be proud of all the hard work you have done. :-)	.

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