I am a huge fan of portfolios and used them extensively in my classrooms in both elementary and secondary schools. \u00a0So the emergence of eportfolios was a gift – no longer did I have to keep boxes and cabinets filled with artifacts that students were completing and saving in their old-style portfolios. \u00a0So student use of these tools is time saving, space-saving, and more engaging and meaningful for the students.<\/p>\n
However, I see another opportunity beyond students (including us in the MET program) in the use of professional e-portfolios for teachers and administrators. \u00a0In Ontario, we are required to conduct Teacher Performance Appraisals<\/a> (differentiated for new and experienced teachers) and Principal Performance Appraisals<\/a> on a regular cycle. \u00a0Because our ministry provides a raft of forms and manuals to complete this process, the entire experience becomes a monumental task of paperwork and stress for all involved. \u00a0Because it is completed once every 5 years, there isn’t room for ongoing reflection and collection of products that educators can be proud of.<\/p>\n I believe a better system – to streamline the appraisal and result in more meaningful reflection of teaching and leading practice would be the use of eportfolios. \u00a0I see new teacher applicants arriving at interview time with monster binders of their portfolios, but there is never time to delve into their hard work in their short time with the interview team – an electronic version would be much more manageable as we could view the products online prior to the interview. \u00a0Also, educators can continuously update their eportfolio to provide evidence of learning, growth, and reflection for the purpose of the appraisal cycle. \u00a0Eportfolios for employee \u00a0performance appraisal makes just as much sense as using them for student learning and assessment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brenda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a huge fan of portfolios and used them extensively in my classrooms in both elementary and secondary schools. \u00a0So the emergence of eportfolios was a gift – no longer did I have to keep boxes and cabinets filled with artifacts that students were completing and saving in their old-style portfolios. \u00a0So student use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328741],"tags":[1169],"class_list":["post-6991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-10-emerging-market-analysis","tag-eportfolios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions\/6992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}