Developing Your Portfolio - Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff: A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional [Paperback]

Veteran teacher educators Marianne Jones and Marilyn Shelton provide practical and comprehensive guidance on developing a portfolio specific to the needs of pre- and in-service teachers of young children.

1. Human Development and Constructivism 2. How Portfolios Reflect Constructivism 3. Portfolio Orientation: Purpose, Type, Context, Structure, and Audience 4. Planning and Organizing for a Successful Portfolio 5. Philosophy: The Unifying Element of Portfolios 6. Reflection: The Defining Feature of Portfolios 7. Building a Portfolio 8. Structure, Design, and Construction of Print and Electronic Portfolio

Jones and Shelton provide a detailed model for using teacher portfolios as an expression of constructivism and reflective teaching practices. Whether you are a college instructor, student, or teacher of early childhood education, this book offers a comprehensive look at the portfolio development process. With clarifying definitions and detailed examples, this text prepares the reader to become an intentional, disciplined user of portfolios for a variety of purposes.

--Margie Carter, Early Childhood Instructor and Consultant

This timely book offers an alternative to standardized testing and competitive grading as the way to assess what teachersand by extension, childrenknow.  Emphasizing the construction of knowledge through action, reflection, and documentation, it presents detailed guidelines for portfolio development.

--Elizabeth Jones, Faculty Emerita in Human Development, Pacific Oaks College

This book is valuable to those in the child development and early education fields of education. --Reference and Research Book News

Portfolios have often been used as a way for teachers to monitor and assess their students' progress, but this book plS-