Student+Portfolios

A collection of student work in all subject areas through the year is documented on a digital web page and printed to keep a hard copy in a binder. Reflections of best work and reflections of learning are also documented once per quarter. These portfolios are used at the first parent teacher conferences to show what students have been working on during the first quarter. For third quarter conferences students will use their portfolios to guide their own conferences with parents and show their work samples. Students have also created student pages on our class wiki where digital work examples can be embeded and they can acess these from home.
 * Description **

Student collected work samples are put together digitally on a wiki space as well as collected in hard copy to keep a binder in the classroom. Students and parents have access to the digital space on line and are able to access and view this web page from any location. These work samples include digital published projects, pre-test and post-test data collection, and writing samples. At the end of each quarter students reflect on their best work and progress that has been made through the quarter.
 * Analysis **

These portfolios were a great tool for quarter one parent teacher conferences. By referencing student work samples parents were able to gain a better understanding of their child's academic gains during the quarter. Many of the students had already shared the digital portfolio with their parents at home. The excitement that students had to share their work with parents is a great way to keep parents connected to their child's education. Because some projects were digital they could not be included in the hard copy of the portfolio. In the future I would like to design a reflection sheet to take the place of the project that would include the description so that student work is documented in both places. There were also some forms that were filled out by students by hand and were not able to be put in the digital portfolio. My goal is to create the documents and give students digital access so that all work can be documented in both portfolios
 * Reflection **