0.1 Part one: e-portfolio  (Page 3/3)

To access your E-Portfolio, click here .

Bringing new thinking into classroom practice

The title for Course 1 is "Education for the New Millennium." Its sub-title is "Bringing New Thinking in Education intoClassroom Practice."

For the next part of your E-Portfolio, think not only about Course 1, but about all of the courses you have completed thus far - 1, 2,3, and 4. What evidence can you provide that shows that you have, indeed, brought "new thinking in education into your classroom practice?" Youmight choose a lesson plan, an activity you did with your class, and a reflection as a sample to give evidence. You might include one of theassignments you completed for the Certificate of Teaching Mastery or some other example to demonstrate the following:

• What new thinking in education you addressed, and
• How you brought that new thinkiing into your classroom

If you use previous writings from assignments in any of the courses, be sure to create a new, blank Word document, and call it"Bringing New Thinking into Classroom Practice" and save your old work in this new document. Be sure to explain 1) and 2) from above. To do this, youmight need to add a written Reflection to the assignment, anecdote, or evidence that you provide.

Be sure to send your document to your mentor and when your mentor says you're "Ready" to continue, follow the instructions in the"Posting Your Work" section and add this document to your E-Portfolio into the "Bringing New Thinking into Classroom Practice" section.

To access your E-Portfolio, click here .

Highlights from certificate of teaching mastery

For the next section of your E-Portfolio, "Highlights from Certificate of Teaching Mastery," choose 3 examples of your work:

• My Best Work - It could be any assignment in Courses 1-4 that you are deeply proud of and you wish to showcase.
• My Most Challenging Work - An assignment or activity that was difficult for you, but you stayed with it and worked through it.
• My Most Growth-Oriented Work - An assignment or activity that shows you in the process of growing.

In addition to showing each of the above, write 4-5 sentences for each example explaining why you chose that example for that category - 1) Best Work, 2) Most Challenging, and 3) MostGrowth-Oriented.

Create a new, blank Word document for this part of your Teaching Portfoloio and name the document "Highlights from Certificate ofTeaching Mastery." Put your 3 examples with the 3 reflections in this document.

Send the document to your mentor. When your mentor says you're "Ready" to continue, follow the instructions in the "Posting YourWork" section and add this document to your E-Portfolio in the "Highlights from Certificate of Teaching Mastery" section.

To access your E-Portfolio, click here .

Samples of your students' work

• Choose any 3 samples of your students' work to include in your E-Portfolio.
• Write 4-5 sentences for each of the samples you choose - describe the assignment and tell why you chose to include this sample in yourTeaching Portfolio. What does it show? What story does it tell? Why is this important to include?
• Send the students' work with your reflections to your mentor. When your mentor says you're ready, post the students' works with yourreflections in the "Samples of Student Work" section of your E- Portfolio. To do that, read the instructions in the "Posting Your Work"section of this course.

To access your E-Portfolio, click here .

Student voices

For this part of your E- Portfolio, you are trying to capture a variety of student voices to help convey a sense of your students -how they think about their own learning; how they think about some of the activities and projects you have done with them; how they think aboutschool, their friends, their home life, their relationship with you; how they see themselves in relationship to their community and their place inthe world.

• You can use reflective writings students may have already completed after their collaborative-learning, global-collaboration, orservice-learning projects, or any other activities or lessons for which you have asked them to reflect upon their experiences and theirlearning. OR... You can ask them to write something now. You might even wish to have your students write "The Imagined Classroom in theyear 2010" to see what they create, what they envision for the future of education.
• You can approach the "Student Voices" section of your E-Portfolio however you wish. The only criteria is that here it's purely thestudents' voices and you need to include at least 5 different voices. You can use a mixture of short quotes, paragraphs from studentwritings, or even pages of their writing.
• Be sure to place all of your students' work in the same new Word document that you create and save that document as "Student Voices."
• Send the document to your mentor. When your mentor says you're "Ready" to continue, follow the instructions in the "Posting YourWork" section and add this document to your E-Portfolio in the "Student Voices" section.

To access your E-Portfolio, click here .

More to come

Later in the course you will create a Résumé, gather the names and contact information for 3 References and get Letters ofRecommendation. You will also add the sections in your E-Portfolio called "Expertise I Wish to Share" and "What I Need." You may also wish to add a photoof your classroom and put that photo in the "Picture of My Classroom" section of your portfolio. You will be guided through creating and posting theseitems later on in Part Four of this course called "Launching Your Teaching Portfolio."

For now, let's go to the Special Topics in Part Two that will point the way to your designing and implementing a Service Project inPart Three of this course.