EDCI 353

E-Portfolio Assignment

You are learning and growing as a professional educator with each course and field experience you undertake during your time in the Teacher Education Program. These experiences are building foundational knowledge and expertise that will benefit your current and future K-12 students. In an effort to capture your professional growth, you are building an electronic portfolio that will become the culminating project presented at the end of the student teaching semester. This portfolio should show how you have grown as an educator and what knowledge and experiences have shaped this growth.

As part of this ongoing project and as a requirement for this particular course, you will need to:

  1. Update your Philosophy Statement (both at the beginning and end of the semester).
  2. Keep a Field Experience Journal by writing an entry after each visit to your placement classroom.
  3. Identify an artifact* of your professional growth that emerged.

✓ Describe the context from which the artifact emerged (as if someone unfamiliar with your program of study was reading it).

✓ Reflect on how the artifact is important to your growth as a teacher.

✓ Justify how the selected artifact shows growth in the identified standards. Identifying how the artifact has helped you meet (or partially meet) one or more professional standards (listed in your portfolio).

The information above should be added to your electronic portfolio. Email your instructor the link to your portfolio by the date indicated on the course schedule.

*An artifact can be a reading, something that happened during a field experience, a class assignment, a particular class discussion or any other experience you had that made an impact on you during your time in this course.

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Grading Criteria:

✓ Artifact is clearly written to include the context, a reflection that shows its importance, and justification of a standard(s).

✓ Philosophy Statement has been updated twice during the semester to show the growth of the pre-service teacher’s views on education.

✓ A field Experience Journal entry has been recorded for each classroom visit within 24 hours of visit. Entries show thoughtful reflection on what has been learned/observed.

E-Portfolio Rubric

The field experience journal entries, artifact AND philosophy revisions will be graded as a whole using the following criteria.

Criteria / Unsatisfactory-Beginning / Developing / Accomplished / Exemplary / Total
Content
Reflection / 0-17 points / 18-19 points / 20-22 points / 23-25 points / /25
Reflection lacks critical thinking. Superficial connections are made with key course concepts and course materials, activities, and/or assignments / Reflection demonstrates limited critical thinking in applying, analyzing, and/or evaluating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, media, discussions, activities, and/or assignments Minimal connections made through explanations, inferences, and/or examples. / Reflection demonstrates some degree of critical thinking in applying, analyzing, and/or evaluating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, media, discussions activities, and/or assignments. Connections made through explanations, inferences, and/or examples. / Reflection demonstrates a high degree of critical thinking in applying, analyzing, and evaluating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, media, discussions activities, and/or assignments. Insightful and relevant connections made through contextual explanations, inferences, and examples.
Personal Growth / 0-9 points / 10-11 points / 12-13 points / 14-15 points / /15
Conveys inadequate evidence of reflection on own work in response to the self-assessment questions posed. Personal growth and awareness are not evident and/or demonstrates a neutral experience with negligible personal impact. Lacks enough inferences, examples, personal insights and challenges, and/or future implications are overlooked. / Conveys limited evidence of reflection on own work in response to the self-assessment questions posed. Demonstrates less than adequate personal growth and awareness through few or simplistic inferences made, examples, insights, and/or challenges that are not well developed. Minimal thought of the future implications of current experience. / Conveys evidence of reflection on own work with a personal response to the self-assessment questions posed. Demonstrates satisfactory personal growth and awareness through some inferences made, examples, insights, and challenges. Some thought of the future implications of current experience. / Conveys strong evidence of reflection on own work with a personal response to the self-assessment questions posed. Demonstrates significant personal growth and awareness of deeper meaning through inferences made, examples, well developed insights, and substantial depth in perceptions and challenges. Synthesizes current experience into future implications.
Writing Quality / 0-5 points / 6-7 points / 8-9 points / 10 points / /10
Poor writing style lacking in standard English, clarity, language used, and/or frequent errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling. Needs work. / Average and/or casual writing style that is sometimes unclear and/or with some errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling. / Above average writing style and logically organized using standard English with minor errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling. / Well written and clearly organized using standard English, characterized by elements of a strong writing style and basically free from grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling errors.
Timeliness / Deduct 8 points / Deduct 5 points / Deduct 3 points / 0 points deducted / /--
FE Journal entries are submitted 3 or more days after the deadline. / FE Journal entries are submitted 2 days after the deadline. / FE Journal entries are submitted 1 day after the deadline. / FE Journal entries are submitted on or before deadline.
TOTAL POINTS / /50