Portfolio Requirements
Your portfolio should reflect your learning and growth as a writer throughout the semester. It should contain a final reflection that traces your emerging philosophy as a writer and as a teacher of writing. Your portfolio should not only document the writing you were able to achieve this semester, but reveal your critical insights into teaching writing that you have gained through our readings and discussions. Topics addressed within the course should be reflected within your portfolio and the guided tour that will go along with it, including:
- The nature of writing as an individual and social activity.
- The purposes of writing instruction
- Writing pedagogy
- Writing assessment
- Grammar, style, convention.
In addition, you should be able to address the matter of diversity in writing instruction throughout you portfolio, making significant connections to racial, gender, sociocultural, socioeconomic, or linguistic factors that may influence how students write and how you teach writing.
Portfolio Checklist
____guided tour of your portfolio
____individual pieces with drafts attached
____research paper with drafts attached
____grammar and spelling logs
____book talk handout or graduate paper
____both journal evaluations
Portfolio Assessment :: Guided Tour
The following questions are suggestions to help you develop your guided portfolio tour. Please do not feel limited by these suggestions. Feel free to be creative, reshaping your tour in video, audio or collage form. Your guided tour should most importantly give me an accurate self-assessment of the writing you have done this term.
Portfolio Tour
Your guided tour should be informal. I am interested in learning about you as a writer and teacher of writing from your honest reflections concerning your writing process and the contents of your portfolio. As you reflect on your writing you have chosen to include in your portfolio, you might use the following questions to guide your reflection. Also consider the topics mentioned above.
- What writing did I enjoy the most? What made it enjoyable?
- What writing did I feel most uncomfortable/ the most troubled doing? Why did I feel this way?
- What writing do I feel indicates strong evidence of my ablility?
- What piece surprised me the most? Least?
- What piece made me feel like I was developing a new skill?
- Which lead and / or conclusion was most satisfying to write?
- Which piece made me feel the power or absence of audience or purpose?
- What might I do differently if I could start over?
- Of which writing am I the proudest? Why?
- Does any of the writing provide evidence of how I meet or do not meet my personal goals?
- How does my portfolio prove that I have met the Minnesota State Licensure requirements for writing as listed on the syllabus?