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Creating a Career Portfolio
Need a better way to demonstrate your skills to a prospective employer or client? Try creating a career portfolio. This issue of TD at Work offers practical advice to help learning and development professionals show off their best work. “Creating a Career Portfolio” discusses why portfolios are becoming more essential for career development and explains how to build one that will give you an advantage on the job market. In the issue of TD at Work, you will learn: · how to select and organize items for a portfolio · what kinds of work samples to include · what tools are available for building a digital portfolio · how to share your portfolio · how portfolios can contribute to career success.
And What Do You Do?
Even in a tough economy business professionals are always in search of ways to redefine and reassess the components of having a satisfying career and good work/life balance. This book gives ten practical steps for establishing a "portfolio career" option where you have two or more jobs for different employers and reframe your brand by playing to your greatest strengths. Each job would utilize different skills and allow you to follow your passions with enough built-in flexibility and diversity to help you thrive during economic slumps. Whether part-time worker or a combination of working for yourself and an organization, this book will show you the way to explore innovative career opportunities and find the maximum fulfillment in your work.
The Career Advancement Portfolio
Frequently, people who want to advance in their careers or to change careers need assistance. To meet this need, the authors of The Principal Portfolio have expanded one of its chapters into The Career Advancement Portfolio--a powerful marketing tool for the educator seeking better job opportunities. If you are about to begin a job search, perhaps you are not looking forward to developing a portfolio. Perhaps it appears to be an overwhelming task, and if you are not certain of just how to go about it, trying to create a portfolio can be a frustrating and intimidating experience. The Career Advancement Portfolio is designed to make developing your portfolio manageable and rewarding. The step-by-step process outlined in the book will enable you to create, in a sequential and stress-free manner, a Career Advancement Portfolio which highlights your abilities and accomplishments and enhances your professional image.
The Teacher Portfolio
Follow three very different teachers through the process of creating a reflective teacher portfolio. This book covers all the basics of portfolios. Chapters cover each of the standard parts of a portfolio—Introduction, Influences, Instruction, Individualization, and Integration—and explore how the teachers apply the principles to their classrooms and styles. Teachers, peer mentors and administrators alike will appreciate this detailed approach to the evaluation process. With this book, you can turn your portfolio into a powerful tool of self-assessment as well as a tangible demonstration of your teaching capabilities.
Handbook on Teacher Portfolios for Evaluation and Professional Development
This book and downloadable resources show school leaders how to develop teacher portfolios and put them into action. They will provide confidence and credibility as you engage in: - "high stakes" summative evaluations - initial hiring, tenure, and other key personnel decisions - fostering a school culture which encourages high levels of performance This book and downloadable resources provide a reliable and easy way for teachers to: - collect and analyze data about their effectiveness - monitor and improve their own performance - improve student learning Adopting the templates in this book and downloadable resources will enable you to define: - standards which describe actual duties and activities of teachers - behaviors which indicate the quality of teaching - "artifacts" which provide evidence of teaching and learning - scoring rubrics which assist in objective evaluation The downloadable resources, contain easy-to-use templates of performance assessment rubrics, feedback forms, and other documents to help you organize & implement Teacher Portfolios in your school.
The Portfolio Organizer
This ultimate guide to portfolios makes the process of developing and using portfolios easier and more rewarding for you and your students. Clear steps guide you through critical decisions in 10 major categories. Hands-on activities, discussion questions, and planning tools help you anticipate and address every key issue. Practical samples and easy-to-use templates and forms ensure that the portfolio process is meaningful to students and manageable for you. - Publisher.
Developing Portfolios in Education
Developing Portfolios in Education: A Guide to Reflection, Inquiry, and Assessment, Second Edition takes preservice and inservice teachers through the process of developing a professional portfolio. It is designed to teach readers how traditional and electronic portfolios are defined, organized, and evaluated. The text also helps teachers to use their portfolios as an action research tool for reflection and professional development.
The Employment Portfolio
For undergraduate courses in Career Development and Job Search in departments of Career Planning and Placement, and Counseling. With the job market such that it is, job seekers need an effective tool to help set them apart from their competition, and to highlight their abilities and accomplishments. This text bridges the gap between the resume and the job search by helping students to sharpen the focus on career objectives and identify skills and accomplishments. The S.T.A.R. approach provides an effective way to present one's Skills, Training, Accomplishments and References to a prospective employer from setting up an interview, to enhancing the resume, to answering tough interview questions.
Handbook of Research on Practices and Outcomes in Virtual Worlds and Environments
Handbook of Research on Practices and Outcomes in Virtual Worlds and Environments not only presents experienced professionals with the most recent and advanced developments in the field, but it also provides clear and comprehensive information for novice readers. The handbook introduces theoretical aspects of virtual worlds, disseminates cutting-edge research, and presents first-hand practices in virtual world development and use. The balance of research, theory, and applications includes exploration of design innovations, new virtual reality technologies, virtual communities, pedagogical design, and the future of virtual worlds and environments.
