How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, 3rd ed.How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers by Dorothy M. Campbell, et al., Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, Boston, Mass., 2004, 128 pp., $32.10 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. In their third edition of How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers, a faculty cohort at California University of Pennsylvania The main campus consists of 38 buildings situated on 90 acres (364,000 m²). An additional 98 acre (397,000 m²) recreation complex, George H. Roadman University Park, is located one mile from campus and includes a football stadium, various sports facilities, and picnic facilities. has produced a timely and succinct suc·cinct adj. suc·cinct·er, suc·cinct·est 1. Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse: a succinct reply; a succinct style. 2. set of guidelines and rationale for an instrument that has the potential to be used throughout the entire career of an educator. The professional portfolio is a flexible and versatile tool whose time may have arrived, having paralleled the emergence of national standards and accountability for teacher education programs. The portfolio is not merely a collection of personal data, experiences and outcomes, but rather an organized, goal-driven documentation of professional growth and achieved competence that presents tangible evidence of an individual's knowledge, dispositions and skills. In a new chapter in this latest edition, the authors discuss the technology that now exists for prospective and practicing educators to demonstrate competence and growth through the use of electronic portfolios, which have the potential to store and present a more extensive range of data. The addition of multimedia artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. provides the ePortfolio reviewer with a far richer portrait of individual achievement and professional competence, while demonstrating technological knowledge and skill. The ePortfolio also supplements or supplants comprehensive examinations in a number of leadership, doctoral and administrative licensing programs. This slim text, a 90-minute read, will provide the interested peruser pe·ruse tr.v. pe·rused, pe·rus·ing, pe·rus·es To read or examine, typically with great care. [Middle English perusen, to use up : Latin per-, per- with an excellent outline of this promising concept. Reviewed by Charles Rudiger, professor of leadership and technology, Dowling College Dowling College is a private college on Long Island, New York, with more than 6,500 full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students through four schools: the School of Arts & Sciences, Townsend School of Business, School of Education and School of Aviation. , Oakdale, N.Y. |
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