MED 300 Field Experience Portfolio

Due December 6^th, 2007 at 4pm

Your portfolio is your self-portrait in relation to your field experience. It should demonstrate your growth and competence in understanding of content, instruction, and assessment, as well as your ability to critically analyze your teaching performance, with respect to issues and practices raised in MED 308 over the semester.

The portfolio should address the following areas*:

• Instructional Methodology

lesson plans reflect:

-awareness of appropriate content, student diversity, and learning styles

-appropriate use of manipulatives and technology

-varied instructional formats including individual and cooperative structures

• Assessment Practices

-tasks reflective of state assessment and scoring guidelines

-student awareness of state assessment and scoring guidelines

• Self-Assessment

-ability to monitor your own teaching effectiveness through review and analysis of your teaching behavior and the learners' performance

-appropriate lesson modification and ability to use available resources

*This is not a structural suggestion. These areas may be addressed within a variety of organizational schemes.

Structure and Item Selection 

You portfolio must include selections of your work and commentary on why you selected the item. Items might include journal entries, lesson plans, activities, assessments, photos of students working, and perhaps excerpts from readings that are particularly important for your thinking about and understanding of a specific area. Your portfolio should demonstrate your growth in understanding. Your commentary should include the rationale for the particular item being included in the portfolio including why it is significant in terms of the above criteria, what learning (yours) occurred or was prompted by the item (i.e., how it contributed to your growth), and what, if any, implications the item has for future teaching endeavors. At the end of the portfolio, you should include a reflective and critical paper that summarizes your growth in the practice of teaching as it relates to the ideas that arose in this course and your field experience.

Evaluation

The following is the rubric that will be used to evaluate your efforts.

	4	3	2	1
< style="font-weight: bold;">Instructional Planning	Comprehensive understanding of content; appropriate selection of topics; strong implementation discussion; analysis, extension, justification	Broad understanding of content; appropriate selection of topics; good implementation discussion; analysis, some extension	Some understanding of content; mostly appropriate selection of topics; adequate implementation discussion; analysis	Basic understanding of content; some inappropriate selection of topics, inadequate discussion and analysis
<>Instructional Practice	Practice integrates technology and manipulatives (commercial and non) through student-centered activities; Strong evidence of addressing diversity, learning styles/ modalities; appropriate use of cooperative learning	Practice integrates technology or manipulatives (commercial and non) through mostly student-centered activities; Evidence of addressing diversity, learning styles/ modalities; appropriate use of cooperative learning	Some evidence of practice integrating technology or manipulatives; Minimal evidence of addressing diversity, learning styles/ modalities; little use of cooperative learning and/or student-centered activities	Minimal evidence of practices integrating technology or manipulatives; Minimal evidence of addressing diversity, learning styles/ modalities; no evidence of cooperative learning and/or student- centered activities
<>Assessment	Appropriate selection and use of NYS problems and scoring including student self- and peer assessment; assessment forms used to assess understanding and inform instruction	Evidence of use of NYS problems and scoring including student self-assessment; assessment forms used to assess understanding and knowledge	Evidence of use of NYS problems and scoring	Little evidence of use of NYS problems and scoring
<>Growth and Challenge Self- Assessment	Evidence of comprehensive critique, reflection, and self-assessment; foundation in course content and evidence in varied forms	Evidence of critique, reflection, and self-assessment; some foundation in course content	Some evidence of critique, reflection, and self-assessment, little foundation in course content	Minimal evidence of growth, reflection, critique; no foundation in course content
<> Organization, Development, Writing	Thoroughly thought through; creatively organized and connected; variety of items; exemplary communication	Thoughtfully written and developed; good communication; well organized; variety of items	Organization follows strict suggested outline; little variety of items, acceptable level of communication	Inadequate organization, communication and development; closer to a notebook or folder than a portfolio

Total possible points: 20