Assignment:
Portfolios
For your final project, you will be developing a portfolio. In order to help you better understand the purpose of your assignment, we want to take a deeper look into the use of portfolios as an assessment tool. The course text discusses how portfolios are used to develop a holistic picture of a child's abilities by providing a framework to gather and evaluate artifacts (Howard, V. F., & Aiken, E., 2015). As a professional working with children, your role in portfolio assessment is a vital one. For this discussion, we will focus on the importance of portfolio assessment in the classroom or childcare center.
1. Discuss how portfolio assessments support you as a professional in your quest to ensure the growth of the children with whom you work. Make sure to include specific examples of the purposes of portfolios to support your thinking.
2. Explain how you will manage the logistical piece of using portfolio assessments. Reference section 6.2 Portfolio Logistics from the course text to support your explanation.
3. Describe the different types of evidence that are included in portfolios. Make sure to explain the role the children will play in this piece of the portfolio process.
4. Discuss how you will include families in the portfolio assessment process, and why this important to the portfolio process.
5. Explain how the portfolio process you will use with children mirrors the portfolio you are creating for your final project in this course.