Materials for Your Teaching Portfolio

Over the course of your teacher preparation program, you will create and collect many materials that you may wish to include in your teacher portfolio as evidence of your knowledge, skills, and attitudes for teaching. These materials should show that you meet the standards for new teachers developed by INTASC, the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium. The INTASC standards are available at http://www.ccsso.org/intascst.html#draft.

To help you begin developing materials for your portfolio, complete one or more of the following activities.

1. List several ways that you, as a teacher, can encourage participation of your students' families in their schooling. Be sure your plans include efforts to address the needs of working parents, single parents, and family members other than parents. (INTASC Principles 3 and 10)
2. Draw up a list of classroom rules intended to encourage mutual respect and cooperation among students in your classroom, and to reduce bullying and harassment. Be sure the rules are appropriate for the age of students you plan to teach. Explain the rationale behind your choices of rules and how you would introduce these rules to your class. (INTASC Principles 2, 5, & 6)
3. Describe at least three steps that you, as a teacher, can take to promote gender equity in your classes. How do the ages of the students you plan to teach and the subject matter you plan to teach affect your efforts to be fair to both girls and boys? (INTASC Principles 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, & 7)