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Why Portfolios?

Why Portfolios?. Mica Brown Marc Condos. Why Portfolios. The use of technology in an academy program to enhance cross-curricular content among academy classes. Also included is our Senior Portfolio, Quarterly projects and technology in the classroom.

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Why Portfolios?

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  1. Why Portfolios? Mica Brown Marc Condos

  2. Why Portfolios The use of technology in an academy program to enhance cross-curricular content among academy classes. Also included is our Senior Portfolio, Quarterly projects and technology in the classroom. Johnson Corporate Academy Senior Portfolio Requirements

  3. Questions • Why are you here? • What do you expect to learn? • Do you currently have portfolios at your school? • Are you in the planning stage? • What do you expect students to get from the process or the finished product?

  4. Introductions • Mica Brown • Teacher at Hiram Johnson High School • Sacramento California • 6th year teaching (Business Credential) • 3rd year teaching computers in Corporate Academy • 3 years teaching Mathematics • Middle of Masters Program at Sac. State

  5. Marc Condos

  6. Why Portfolios? • Student Centered • The Student’s Future • Level of Proficiency • Demonstrate a Wide Range of Student Work, Including Complex, Multidimensional Tasks • School Philosophy

  7. Why Electronic Portfolios? • Take It With Them in an Editable Format • Easily Transportable and Email Ready • Open to Public Inspection • Chronicle Student Work • Sets Stage for College Portfolios • College Scholarships

  8. Technological Fluency • Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, has suggested that 60% of the jobs available at the turn of the century will require skills currently held by only 20% of today's workforce (Thornburg, 1997) • In a study of the 54 jobs identified by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics as having the highest numerical growth between now and the year 2005. Of these 54 jobs, we could only find eight that do not require technological fluency -- and none of these eight jobs currently pays more than twice the minimum wage. (Thornburg, 1997) • Technological literacy is now a requirement • The Future will be based on skills learned today

  9. Electronic Senior Portfolios • Student work on a CD • Student work on the Web • Student work on the server • Tailored to student portfolio • Tailored to student career interest • Tailored to student strengths

  10. The use of technology in an academy program to enhance cross-curricular content among academy classes. Also included is our Senior Portfolio, Quarterly projects and technology in the classroom. Johnson Corporate Academy Senior Portfolio Requirements

  11. Academy Program • Cross-curricular Projects • Technology Based • Problems With Technology and Teachers Technological Literacy • 20% Value in All Classes (Quarter Grade) • Teachers Meet With Common Prep • Math, Social Studies, English, Computers • What Is the Future

  12. Requirements • All quarter projects • Computer Office projects • Graphics projects (Web, brochures, photo) • Web Page • Special Projects (student interest) • Business Project (all inclusive)

  13. Careers Community Service Culture Donner Party Environment Gold Mining Historic Sacramento Inventors Senior Research Essay Project Reading Project Split Projects Quarter Projects

  14. Essay Project • 1000 Word Minimum Essay on Current Issues • This Year - Elections • Timeline • Teachers Split Content • Different by Class Level – Informative, Persuasive, Argumentative. • Standards and Grading

  15. Careers Project • Visit Career Center • Write a Resume • Job Application • Choices • OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES • Apply to a college, visit a college and write about it, job shadow and write a report, Interview 3 people in work force with 1 page written review of each job, research a career (essay format 500 words), spreadsheet of major local industries with analysis, career prep program though FTB(juniors only), finished financial aid form (Seniors) Essay for a scholarship. • Standards and Grading

  16. Sources • Los Angeles County Office of Education (1997) Portfolios: Students, Teachers, & Electronic. [Online] Available: http://www.lacoe.edu/pdc/second/portfolio.html [2000, November 08]. • Yannarella, Karen (1997) Electronic Portfolios: A Technology Trend in Authentic Assessment. [Online] Available: http://udel.edu/~66335/assess.htm [2000, November 08]. • David D. Thornburg (1997) 2020 Visions for the Future of Education. [Online] Available: http://www.tcpd.org/thornburg/handouts/2020visions.html [2000, November 08].

  17. Links • Outline of Framework for Instruction and Learning • Portfolios:Students, Teachers, & Electronic • Creating and Using Portfolios • 2020 Visions for the Future of Education

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