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Portfolio. A portfolio is a purposeful collection of your work that tells the story of the your efforts, progress, or achievement in a given area. Service Plan Oriented Focus on Skill Development Multiple activities Self-Evaluate Open-ended Develop critical thinking skills
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A portfolio is a purposeful collection of your work that tells the story of the your efforts, progress, or achievement in a given area. • Service Plan Oriented • Focus on Skill Development • Multiple activities • Self-Evaluate • Open-ended • Develop critical thinking skills • Evidence of student self-reflection
Why keep a portfolio? What are the benefits? • To monitor achievement of Service Plan Goals • To Monitor progress and to see the benefits of your hard work. • To learn new skills • To show evidence of growth as you prepare to graduate from WRA • For future reference • Identify individual values and strengths • Celebrating achievements
Structure Initially your Portfolio should focus on highly structured details with an emphasis on skill development (ready made forms, fill in the blank, etc). As you progress and develop you should acquire the skills to publish and create your own work. As you progress through your program you need to gradually assume more responsibility for orchestration of your personal accomplishments.
Staff Role Staff will facilitate an attitude of enthusiasm for quality work and high interest in portfolio development. Portfolios should not dominate your time, but rather be a regularly scheduled activity filled in shorter portions of time (10-15 min) daily or weekly, consistently throughout your enrollment.
Service Plans The Service Plan should be an integral part of the portfolio. The portfolio should reflect the students Service Plan goals and should also be reviewed regularly, particularly with parents at parent weekend.
Personal Page Mission Statement Service Plan Autobiography Achievements Values and Goals Life Plan Educational Section Occupational Development Section Treatment Relatedassignments Discovering and admitting my problems Character Development Section Service Projects Journals Seminars and Parent Weekends Home Visits Home Contract Applications and Request for Graduation Other Stuff What should a portfolio include?
Suggestions for Organizing Remember: It is YOUR portfolio – it should reflect YOU and YOUR style. Take pride in yourself.
Personal Section • Essential Information – All about me • Mission Statement • Personal Values and Goals • Personal Autobiography • Personal history • Friends, school, self, family • Life experiences (how they affected me)
Service plan and Achievements • Current copy of YOUR service plan • Everything you do should fit in to your service plan – these are meant to be personal. • Identify your 16 achievements – Plan • Written summaries of each achievement • In the future – the achievement program will GROW
Education • Educational Goals • Report Cards / Transcripts • SAT / ACT Scores • College Exploration Activities • Awards • Post High School Planning • How are your current activities and classes related to your long term career goals.
Treatment / Personal Development • Equiptment Meetings • Ed. Audio / Ed. Video • Personal Solutions • PPC Skills • Character Development Activities • Treatment specific activities • Etc. Etc. Etc.
Service Activities and Service Project • Collect Ideas • Journal you progress in detail • Record ALL your service activities • Write about your extra curricular activities • This is where you keep track of your Service project from beginning to end
Occupational Development • Hobbies • Career exploration activities (career fair) • Post High School planning
Journals ~ Seminars ~ Parent Weekends • Notes • Plans • Submissions • Ideas
Home Visits ~ Home Contracts • Each home visit should have a purpose • The first home visit should focus on family • The second home visit should focus on building structure and preparing for when you return home to live. • You should begin developing your home contract within a few weeks of your enrollment. It is an ongoing process.
Application for Graduation • Be creative. Collect writings, pictures, samples of your BEST work. • Consider recording the solutions that worked for you. How did you overcome specific challenges. • Show evidence of your stages of moral development. • Submitting your portfolio to cottage becomes your application for graduation from WRA. It should show evidence of all that you have accomplished.