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Counseling Program Portfolios

Counseling Program Portfolios. A Guide to Successful Completion. Portfolio Purpose.

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Counseling Program Portfolios

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  1. Counseling Program Portfolios A Guide to Successful Completion

  2. Portfolio Purpose • The portfolio serves to bring together professional, academic and developmental artifacts that show a student’s readiness for professional work, mastery of CACREP content standards, and satisfactory completion of applied experiences. It can help students feel pride and communicate with an individualized voice completion of their program. • Secondarily, it supplies the program with data for program evaluation purposes, showing how well students are performing in different areas and thereby how the program might improve.

  3. Collecting Artifacts from the Start • The student begins their portfolio when they begin their program. • You are asked to keep work from all classes so that you have “artifacts” that can document your progress and completion of various tasks. • There are “suggested” artifacts to be presented in your portfolio, but alternatives may better communicate your competence or only be available, hence the suggestion to keep all of your work.

  4. Checkpoints • During COU 765 Research Seminar in Counseling (or COU 799 if completing Thesis instead of COU 765), students need to meet with their advisor for an initial review of portfolio progress. • Within a few weeks of graduation, students need to complete their portfolio (minus any remaining artifact that might come in at the end of the semester) for their advisor to evaluate and sign off on the portfolio. The advisor needs to communicate to the graduate college that the student appears that they will or will not complete all requirements (including the portfolio) on time for graduation. • Because of any remaining artifacts, an advisor approved portfolio (with the completed rubric) may not be fully completed until the end of the semester, but the first nearly complete draft should come about a month in advance in case revisions are needed.

  5. Instructions • The portfolio is described within documents housed on the counseling website: http://education.missouristate.edu/counseling/156387.htm (and within blackboard in the COU 765 course). • These include guidelines (the basic set of instructions and advisor portfolio cover sheet-the most important page to show progress and completion). • The suggested artifact table for the Academic (main) section of the portfolio. • A blank artifact cover sheet to introduce each of the artifacts in the academic section. • The Portfolio Program Objective Assessment (the rubric completed by your advisor)

  6. The Three Sections of the Portfolio • The first section (professional) includes, a current resume, cover letter, and proof of professional membership(s) and liability insurance. • The second section (academic) includes a degree plan, comprehensive scores, and artifacts with artifact cover sheets related to the 12 CACREP content areas of the field of counseling, including general and specialization information. • The third section (developmental) includes the comprehensive exam report, a summary of and presentation of evaluations from pre-practicum, practicum, and internship settings, logs from practicum and internship and praxis or NCE results (if applicable at that stage).

  7. Adding a Personal Touch • Students are encouraged to format their portfolio, describe artifacts in the cover sheets, and select artifacts (for the 12 content areas) that will best convey their individualized view of their progress and mastery within their program. • For example, some students have included graphics, pictures, and/or other elements that provide a personal touch to communicate themselves.

  8. Questions on the Portfolio Process • We encourage you to ask questions and give feedback on the portfolio process so that you feel supported and we can assess together whether it is meeting its purposes as explained at the start of this presentation. • Your advisor is the official evaluator of your professional and as such, your questions are best directed to her or him. • The COU 765 instructor and course may be able to address general questions while you are inside that course.

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