Reflection, collaboration and sharing authority are critical components of a portfolio.The purpose of a portfolio is to reflect the student's best work and what they have learned in the process. I like the idea to approach the students in the way that they can be critical with their writing, this gives the opportunity to evaluate their own work, but the teachers's job is to provide the structure of specific questions to facilitate a better reflection.
In the kindergarten, we use portfolios for each child and keep their work in process, for example the first day of school the children write their names and the alphabet (sometimes its just scribbles) after that every three months they do the same, at the end of the school year they need to write their names using capitals and the whole alphabet.We compare and see their progress, how much thay learned to be independent with their own writing. In this case the journal has a good purpose to keep the records and discuss with the parents about the student's academic setting.
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13 years ago
Gloria, you wrote: "...the teachers's job is to provide the structure of specific questions to facilitate a better reflection."
ReplyDeleteMy task this next month or two is to develop such a repertoire of effective questions to promote such deep reflection. The challenge will be tailoring the language of the questions to each grade level, each student. This will take some thought.