Personal Portfolios

PORTFOLIO :

 A Professional Learning Tool

What is a portfolio ?

A collection of materials which provide evidence of your professional learning and development during a course.

Why do we need a portfolio?

1. To demonstrate your achievements and progress made during the course.

2. To provide evidence for yourself and others of professional learning.

3. To encourage awareness of or reflection on professional learning.

Two of my personal portfolios done during CLiPS Programme (2008-2010)

A thick collection of materials of literature during CLiPS

Students' personal portfolios

They started these when they were in year 4

Compilation of their own materials in their personal portfolios

For the teachers, portfolios are the collection of materials which provide evidence of their professional learning and development during a course.
It is vital to have a portfolio so as to prove that you have done your tasks according to the course planned.The same goes to the students where by having their personal portfolios, they can easily collect whatever materials and written tasks done during the process of learning certain subjects, in this case ; literature.Be it :
-drawing of a book cover
-personal response on certain story read
-journals/ diary
-comic stripes
-their own creative poems
-and the list goes on and on

So dear English teachers,
why dont we start introducing these portfolios to our students during literature lesson? It's fun actually and the students will definately enjoy themselves during literature as they can express themselves freely. There's no right or wrong answer for literature.
Believe me! I've done it.