Portfolio is a visiting card of working achievements

Portfolio is a kind of visiting card,solid and impressive, which characterizes your performance, the qualities necessary to achieve success. It collects all your achievements, highlights the stages of creative growth. Do not think that this is only a large resume. Portfolio helps to analyze the work, fix the results achieved, monitor personal growth.

Paper and electronic portfolio

There are two ways to provideinformation. This is a paper portfolio and an electronic one. Paper includes various kinds of information about your activities. This is a folder with inserts. In our time of universal computerization and involvement in the world wide web of the Internet, the electronic version becomes more and more actual. In this case, the portfolio is a collection of documents collected and stored electronically. However, simply saving files to a folder on the computer is not enough. After all, in this case they will be available only to you. Because of this, online versions, published on the Internet most often in the form of a personal website, became very popular.

Features of the portfolio of the teacher.

His portfolio of photographs are actors,model. But most people will need a different kind of business card, containing mainly documents, extracts, photocopies, and not photographs. For example, a teacher's portfolio.

• positive dynamics of achievements of pupils of the given teacher for the last 4-5 years;
• the results of the activity of the teacher as the head of the class, the leading circles;
• use of modern technologies in work;
• generalization of the experience of pedagogical work and its dissemination;
• participation in various competitions and olympiads;
• passing courses to improve their skills.

Such information can be presented both in a paper folder and in the form of a teacher's website.

What does the student's portfolio include?

Portfolio of the schoolboy contains not onlyinformation about his academic successes, but also information about extracurricular work (participation in circles, sections). This helps to form a general opinion about the personality of the student, his aspirations, interests. The portfolio is made in free form, but, as a rule, has sections related to the biography of the student, his success in studies, participation in olympiads and competitions, with various achievements (awards, diplomas, photo prizes, etc.), participation in extracurricular activities, achievements and victories in competitions in circles, sections. You can also include student work (essays, drawings, applications).

So, the benefits of a portfolio are beyond doubt.It serves both for personal orientation, building a model of further self-improvement, and as a business card representing you to a teacher, partner, employer.