Introduction
Teaching Portfolio is being used as an strategy for English Area Teachers at Unimonserrate to increase our Teaching Professional Development, a fact that makes us reflect on several questions:
1. Do we understand the nature and purpose of keeping a portfolio?
2. Do we need to be given clear guidelines on what to include?
3. What do we need to do in order to achieve a positive assessment of our portfolio?
Task
CONCEPT MAPPING
As you are working in pairs, you are going to create a concept map that illustrates the relationships between concepts and ideas on teaching portfolios.
Process
To create yor concept map we share some resources, but feel free to surf on Internet or use any kind of literature to research on the topic.
PROCESS
1. A helpful way to determine the context of your concept map is to choose a focus question—something that needs to be solved or a conclusion that needs to be reached. Think about the following items which will help with the hierarchical structure of the concept map:
Teaching portfolio concept
The nature of a teaching portfolio
Purpose and benefits of a teaching portfolio
Procedures used incompiling a portfolio
2. Find the key concepts that connect and relate to your main idea and rank them; most general, inclusive concepts come first, then link to smaller, more specific concepts.
3. Once the basic links between the concepts are created, add cross-links, which connect concepts in different areas of the map, to further illustrate the relationships and strengthen understanding and knowledge on the topic.
4. Use Cmap Tools to create your concept map.
5. Upload your map finished.
6. Participate in the forum
Evaluation
Here you find the rubric for concept map assessment. TAke it into account when creating yours.
Conclusion
CONCLUSION
The purpose of concept mapping is helping you to brainstorm and generate new ideas, discover new concepts, communicate your ideas, thoughts and information clearly, integrate new concepts with older ones, as well as gain knowledge of the teaching portfolio and evaluate this information.
Credits
ENGLISH AREA AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
UNIMONSERRATE