This professional development package focuses on how to use portfolios in individual classrooms and in schools. The multimedia kit features a two-hour videotape (VHS), Portfolios in Classrooms and in Schools: Real Models, Real Choices, Real Challenges, in which videoconference participants, studio audience members, and featured presenters Kathleen Blake Yancey and Joy Seybold address a variety of timely issues surrounding the use of portfolios, from differentiation of portfolio models to the use of reflection in the portfolio process. Also included are the book Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives, a reflective yet forward-looking collection of essays on the current practice in portfolio writing assessment; a “Facilitator’s Guide” designed specifically for inservice training; includes writing tasks, rubrics, classroom activities, and progress checklists; selected NCTE journal articles on portfolios; and a bibliography.
Professional Development Package compiled in 1997 by NCTE. Grades K–College. No. 36346