Purpose, support and
potential
Purpose(s)…
For the e-folio
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A repository for the collection of evidence of your
professional growth/competencies
A demonstration of your professional growth over
time e.g.
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4.
5.
Your ability to take risks and learn from them
Your ability to self-assess
Others’ assessments of your growth/competencies
Your approach to teaching e.g. inquiring, critical, flexible,
progressive…
Your relationship to the standards of your profession
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A self assessment tool (with applications to
your own practice with your own students)
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Source of data—a collection—for final UBC
records (audit folio)
For WordPress:
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to develop and/or enhance your
technological skills
To provide a web 2.0 (social networking)
medium for educational collaboration
To electronically store evidence that you
have met the educational goals of UBC’s
teacher education program, and the BCCT
standards.
8 Standards
Third Edition, February 2008
1.
Educators value and care for all students and act in their
best interests.
2. Educators are role models who act ethically and honestly.
3. Educators understand and apply knowledge of student
growth and development.
4. Educators value the involvement and support of parents,
guardians, families and communities in schools.
5. Educators implement effective practices in areas of
classroom management, planning, instruction,
assessment, evaluation and reporting.
6. Educators have a broad knowledge base and understand
the subject areas they teach.
7. Educators engage in career-long learning.
8. Educators contribute to the profession.
Get Ready!
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Visit Computer and Media Services (the
CMS) to set up your account.
Wait for the email from CMS to tell you you
can set up your WordPress blog.
Save this email!!!!
To get started, consult
http://efolio.educ.ubc.ca/cpaul/efolio-support/
Resources
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folio@educ.ubc.ca (CMS help)
E-coaches
Lab workshops: Tues/Thurs 12:30 – 2:00
Room 1011
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TEO website
http://teach.educ.ubc.ca/resources/faculty_resources/eportfolio/index.html
EDUC. 480
The goal of EDUC 480 is to enable you to spend time with fellow teacher
graduands, to review your professional year and to prepare your audit eportfolio for UBC's records.
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Purpose:
to review with your peers, as a capstone course, your accomplishments,
professional development and your professional goals.
to provide an opportunity for serious thinking, questioning and discussion
among your colleagues while you review the program.
to participate in the process of program synthesis--distilling from a
breadth of experiences and new understandings your elemental teaching
identity.
to apply those understandings against the BC College of Teachers
Standards through the construction and filing of an audit portfolio.
to help you consolidate your ideas about teaching and prepare to discuss
them in such contexts as job interviews, staff meetings and parentteacher conferences.
Expect from us:
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e-coaches and other technical support from university personnel
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additional lab and support time
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instructors to
a) help you develop your audit e-portfolio
b) provide feedback regarding your artifacts and reflections
c) organise opportunities for you to discuss and assess your eportfolios and those of your colleagues
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step-by-step documentation and screencasts to demonstrate the
simple process of creating an eportfolio using Wordpress, plus the
TEO website resources:
http://teach.educ.ubc.ca/resources/facultyresources/eportfolio/index.html
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Assessment of your completed audit e-folio, “capture” and storage of it
for 5 years.
Expected from you:
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come with a collection of material, from your year in the TEP, in your
WordPress blog on the Education server: http://efolio.educ.ubc.ca
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this collection will represent meaningful teaching experiences,
artifacts, and reflections from your practicum and from coursework-your working e-portfolio from which the audit folio will be drawn. For
example gather and sort lesson plans, scans of notes from
appreciative students, journal entries from your own reflections,
archived exchanges with colleagues, FA & SA reports, etc.
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familiarity with the UBC ASR http://educ.ubc.ca/about/standards/ and
the 8 BCCT standards.
Satisfactory completion of the audit folio is required for UBC teacher candidates to be recommended
for certification to the BC College of Teachers.
The beginning….