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Course 4: Culture for Understanding - Understanding Our Students

In this course, you'll explore your own cultural competence in the classroom; apply multiculturalism to problem-solving;receive training on service learning; and discuss how to create and sustain connections with classrooms around the world.

Course 5: Educating for Civil Societies - Teaching as Research and Action

This course is a culminating experience with two outcomes: 1) The creation of an electronic Teaching Portfolio (E-Portfolio) that showcases your work from Courses 1 - 4 of the Certificateof Teaching Mastery; and 2) A Service Project - a professional gift to your community that applies what you have learned in the previous four courses toaddress a local, national, or global need in one of the following areas:

• Early Childhood Education
• Literacy and Numeracy for Adult Learners
• Environmental Education
• Education through the Arts
• Girls' Education
• Conflict Mediation
• Special Education
• Community Teaching and Learning Centers

E-portfolio

Teachers who successfully complete Courses 1 - 4 will gain access to our Teachers Without Borders Electroninc TeachingPortfolio (E-Portfolio) as part of Course 5.

As you know, a portfolio is a powerful assessment tool, and includes evidence from your work on major topics - successes,challenges, and questions. The key word is evidence that can show - far more than tests - what you know and what you need to do in order to improve. Portfolios are aprofessional way of demonstrating your competence and showing employers your achievements.

Traditional portfolios in the form of folders, boxes, or 3-ring binders hold papers, pictures, cassette tapes, and more. With anelectronic Teaching Portfolio, known as an "E-Portfolio," information can be stored digitally, taking up little physical space, and is easilyaccessed from anywhere in the world.

Teachers Without Borders is pioneering E-Portfolios for teachers, and we have provided a way for you to design one. Yourelectronic Teaching Portfolio will contain the following elements:

• Professional Statement - My view and approach to teaching
• Questions - My thinking about theory and practice
• The Imagined Classroom - School in 2010 through the eyes of the learner
• Bringing New Thinking into Classroom Practice - Evidence of how what's new becomes the standard
• Highlights from Certificate of Teaching Mastery - My best, most challenging, and growth-oriented work
• My Students' Work - Samples of how planning turns into outcomes
• What Students Say - About their work and the process of learning
• My Service Project - Learning that serves my community
• Expertise I Wish to Share - What I can offer other teachers
• What I Need - Skills and resources I seek from others
• Reflections - My life as a learner, teacher, and world citizen
• Picture of My Classroom - A photo that tells a story
• Resume / References / Letters of Recommendation - Support for my future in teaching

You will be able to complete all of the E-Portfolio elements by completing your assignments within each course as you go along.

To view the electronic Teaching Portfolio, click here .