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INSTRUCTIONS:  READ THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT BEFORE YOU BEGIN.

The suggested order for creating your portfolios (Level portfolio or SENIOR SYNTHESIS portfolio):

• Download the appropriate template to use for your teaching major or minor.

Composite Elementary and Early Childhood Education majors should download and use the template for Early Childhood Education.  That template shows the NAEYC standards and how they relate to the INTASC standards.

Special Education minors and composite majors should download and use the template for Special Education. That template indicates the standards for the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and has a link to the site with more information about those standards

• Read through all of the INTASC Standards on the portfolio template.

If you want a more in-depth understanding of these Standards, please refer to complete list of the INTASC principles with their knowledge, dispositions, and procedures).  You may also look at the electronic example I have created for my INTASC portfolio: (http://faculty.weber.edu/vnapper/portfolios/NapperINTASC.htm)

• Download the rubric that will be used by the faculty to evaluate your professional INTASC portfolio. Read it over so you will have an idea of the various qualities of your portfolio that will be evaluated. The actual artifacts are NOT regraded. Your reflections on the artifacts are what will be evaluated as well as the overall presentation of your portfolio.
  
• Create your working portfolio (electronic and paper). A working portfolio is the one that has everything in it, but not the one you present at the end of the Level. The portfolio presented at the end of the Levels is your "professional INTASC portfolio."
• Gather artifacts (examples of your work or work done by your students) for use in your professional INTASC portfolio. Check to see which artifacts are needed for the Level of courses you are completing.

  Artifacts are anything you have created (lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, response papers, examples of student work, etc.) that clearly supports a INTASC Standard. You will soon have more than one artifact per Standard to choose from. Your professional INTASC portfolio should not include everything you have ever done in teacher education classes.

  You may also wish to save unused copies of all of your student work in a divided box or aa file drawer in a filing cabinet for access at a later date. These assignments may be useful to you when you are hired. They could be the foundation for a future lesson

• Reflect on the artifacts. Remember to indicate why that artifact indicates you have the knowledge, skill, or dispostion of the INTASC standard you are focusing on.

• Download the Artifacts At A Glance templete. Indicate what artifacts you have included in your portfolio binder and what standard you reflected on for the artifact. If you reflected on the artifact in more than one standard, mark multiple standards.

The spreadsheet will allow you to easily find all of the artifacts you are using in your professional portfolio (...if you keep track of them on the spreadsheet by typing in the artifact title and file name). Selectively choose the ones you want to use in your portfolio. Artifact ideas pdf file

After you have completed the spreadsheet, print it out and place it directly after the the cover sheet. If you are using your cover sheet outside of the binder, then place the spreadsheet before you reflections.

Place the CD in the front cover of the portfolio binder in the pockets or place the CD in a plastic sheet specifically for storing CDs in a 3-hole binder.

Revised December, 2006