Summary
Contents
Subject index
With the increasing emphasis on continuing professional development for teachers and all educational practitioners, the use of portfolios to plan, chart, and review professional development is now widespread. Drawing directly from their experience of developing portfolios and portfolio-based assessment, and from current research, this book enables the reader to design and plan a portfolio, chart and analyze relevant professional experiences, reflect critically on practice, assess performance against standards and competences frameworks, present evidence of practice and achievements, and plan their continuing professional development. There are also chapter objectives, key questions and tasks in every chapter, which adds to the practical focus of the book.
Describing and Reflecting on Practice
Describing and Reflecting on Practice
Writing both to describe and then to reflect critically on your practice and learning will be key elements of your professional portfolio. In this chapter we explore some of the different types of writing you might include in a portfolio. To do so we look at a framework that maps out three levels of writing and illustrate each type of writing with some examples.
Key ideas
- Describing practice
- Analysing and evaluating experience
- Critical reflective writing
- A framework for critical reflective writing
Writing in a Professional Portfolio
In a professional portfolio you will be expected to describe and then analyse your practice and learning and so you will have to include different types of writing. A useful way of viewing the different genres of ...
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