Building Your Career Portfolio


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Business and career strategist Poore brings a groundbreaking approach to rewriting the rules of work. She helps readers take personal responsibility for building career wealth by developing a diversified "investment portfolio" of career assets that become more valuable over time.




Developing Your Portfolio - Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff


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Portfolios have often been used as a way for teachers to monitor and assess their students' progress, but this book picks up on the current trend of using portfolios to assess teachers themselves as part of their degree requirements. As a professional development tool, portfolios are also useful for classroom teachers in evaluating their practice, and in showcasing their skills and accomplishments for use in interviews. Veteran teacher educators Marianne Jones and Marilyn Shelton provide practical and comprehensive guidance specific to the needs of pre- and in-service teachers of young children. This thoroughly revised and updated new edition features: A flexible and friendly approach that guides students at varying levels of experience through the portfolio process. New material on the portfolio planning stage and additional coverage on the importance of developing a personal philosophy. A companion website with additional instructor materials such as printable templates, exercises for improving portfolio skills, and more. Both theoretical and practical, the book addresses issues and mechanics related to process and product, instruction and guidance techniques, the role of reflection, and assessment strategies. With concrete examples, rubrics, tips, and exercises, this book will provide a step-by-step guide to creating a professional teaching portfolio.




Creating Your Career Portfolio


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For Introductory courses in the field of dietetics including Career Planning, Career Development, and Job Search. This easy-to-read guidebook provides future dieticians with the detailed instructions for planning, assembling and using a Career Portfolio for career search or advancement. This text prepares students for the strict certification and recertification procedures required by the American Dietetic Association (ADA), and it introduces them to the importance of pulling together all their qualifications, accomplishments, work samples, skills and abilities to package them into a complete personalized portfolio.




Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio


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/*0205458394, Constantino, Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio*/Developing a Professional Teaching Portfolio: A Guide for Success, 2/e offers practical, comprehensive guidelines for developing standards-based paper or electronic professional teaching portfolios. This text leads future and in-service teachers through the rigorous process of documenting the qualities of good teaching: sound planning and preparation, able classroom management, attention to quality instruction, and continuous professional growth. Real-world examples accompany expert advice on both content and presentation, encouraging the creation of an effective portfolio that correlates evidence with national and state standards.




Creating Your Career Portfolio


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Great for students planning for a dietetic internship or for seasoned Registered Dietitians, there's one tool that will set you ahead of your competition: The Career Portfolio. This unique process presented in this book will help you catalog your work experience, accomplishments, and awards in an easy-to-use format. Step-by-step instructions are presented in a user-friendly format; we demonstrate how you can create your own career portfolio.




Putting Together Professional Portfolios


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With the increasing emphasis on continuing professional development for teachers and all educational practitioners, the use of portfolios to plan, chart, and review professional development is now widespread. Drawing directly from their experience of developing portfolios and portfolio-based assessment, and from current research, this book enables the reader to design and plan a portfolio, chart and analyze relevant professional experiences, reflect critically on practice, assess performance against standards and competences frameworks, present evidence of practice and achievements, and plan their continuing professional development. There are also chapter objectives, key questions and tasks in every chapter, which adds to the practical focus of the book.




Developing Portfolios in Education


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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 Career Portfolio Workbook


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Innovative ideas for creating a skill-based career portfolio For job seekers looking to provide tangible, easily accessible proof of their skills and accomplishments, a portfolio of careerrelated documents is fast becoming the essential tool. The Career Portfolio Workbook shows readers how to compile and organize a career portfolioone that is easy to review and quickly adaptable to specific interviews and circumstances. The Career Portfolio Workbook provides job seekers of any profession or experience level with a powerful new weaponthe confidence and the material to promote themselves and their work to others. Its step-by-step process explains how to: Create a career portfolio of personal skillswhy, how, and what to include Target a career portfolio to specific needsa job interview, a performance review, or a career transition Prepare materials, based on more than 50 sample documentsand five complete portfolio samples




Forty Fridas


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A complete catalog of the Forty Fridas portfolio by artist Ellen Heck, this full-color, 136-page book includes an essay by the artist, the complete series of prints, and a section of trial and process proofs. Forty Fridas is a series of woodcut and drypoint prints depicting women and girls dressed up and posing as painter and icon, Frida Kahlo. This project, while in some respects an intimate collection of personal portraits, touches more broadly on themes of identity, multiplicity, individuality and variation—themes apparent both in subject matter and medium.




How to Develop a Professional Portfolio


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This versatile and practical book provides clear, manageable guidelines and tips for professional portfolio development that can be followed by teachers at all stages of their careers. In seven concise chapters, this book offers preservice and in-service teachers step-by-step procedures for portfolio development, using national teaching standards as the organizing system, and offers teachers an extensive list of pragmatic artifact possibilities to showcase their professional growth.