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Anna Vernon 2 nd Grade Jonesville Elementary/Middle School

Anna Vernon 2 nd Grade Jonesville Elementary/Middle School. Portfolios, What’s the Point?. What’s the Point?. Painful Time Consuming Hard to keep up with Will never use them Too many students. Road Block 1, Report Card Time!. Standard. Me. The student writes for a variety of purposes.

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Anna Vernon 2 nd Grade Jonesville Elementary/Middle School

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  1. Anna Vernon2nd GradeJonesville Elementary/Middle School Portfolios, What’s the Point?

  2. What’s the Point? • Painful • Time Consuming • Hard to keep up with • Will never use them • Too many students

  3. Road Block 1, Report Card Time! Standard Me • The student writes for a variety of purposes. • The student uses correct punctuation and capitalization. • Huh, let me think back • Okay…let me see. I believe there is some writing I can look at. • Or, let me find my records/notes

  4. Road Block 2, Student Readiness • Are they ready for the next grade level? • What gains have they made in writing? • How have they changed as a writer? • Have they really grown as a writer? *

  5. Where can I find the answers to my questions? Portfolios, of course! “Teachers evaluate writing for growth over time, basing their judgments on the writing collected in the student’s permanent folder.” (p.284, In the Middle, Nancie Atwell)

  6. Why it is Worth it…

  7. Portfolios, Global Spectrum • Art • Modeling • Photography • Investment • Classroom

  8. “A picture is worth a thousand words.” The same is true of a piece of a child’s writing. It carries more information than a great many anecdotal notes. I think it is wise, therefore, for teachers to insist that each student keep a portfolio.” Calkins (1987 p. 324)

  9. More Benefits of using portfolios as an assessment tool…

  10. What is a portfolio? According to Calkings (1994) “ A portfolio should reflect the turning points, the low moments, the ruts, the breakthroughs, the mountain peaks. “ (p. 324)

  11. The nuts and bolts

  12. You still may be asking yourself, What’s the point? (Graves) Children need… • To choose most of their own topics • Regular response to their writing from both the teacher and other peers • To write everyday • To publish • To hear their teacher talk through his/her as she writes • To maintain collections of their work to establish writing history *

  13. How can portfolios work for me? • Establish purpose • Establish criteria • Establish a tradition • Systematically save all student work

  14. My Vision • Notebook w/ dividers for each stage of the writing process, self-reflection, and conferences • Portable record-keeping method • Time for self-reflection • Time for peer reflection

  15. No Excuse! • http://vdevone.tripod.com/index.html Electronic Portfolios Portable Filing Boxes

  16. What are some roadblocks you have experienced in writing? • How can portfolios help you? • What’s your vision?

  17. Resources • http://vdevone.tripod.com/index.html • It’s Elementary! Using Electronic Portfolios with Young Students, Moritz, J. • Using Writing Portfolios in Instruction and Assessment, Avter and Spundel • Katie Wood Ray, The Writing Workshop • Graves, Donald, Writing: Teachers and Children at Work • Atwell, Nancie, In the Middle • Clakins, Lucy, The Art of Teaching Writing • Brown, C. (2002). Portfolio assessment: how far have we come?. Assessment and Evaluation, 18.

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