Castleton State College

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Castleton State College

• PT3 Collaborative Exchange
• October 7, 2005
• Deborah Waggett, Ph.D.
• Professional Development Coordinator

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History

• Oldest college in Vermont
• Teacher Education
• Leadership

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Castleton Students

• Strong Liberal Arts Philosophy
• Popular majors Education Business Social
  Work Nursing Psychology

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Castleton Education Students

• 1800 Undergrads
• 300 Education majors
• Licensure Areas K-12 Art Music PE Theatre Spanish
  Special Education
• K-6
• Secondary English History Science Math
• 75 Elementary

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Portfolio History

• Theme based and developmental
• Building communities of reflective teacher
  learners through connections, discoveries and
  applications.
• Strong reflective writing
• ROPA
• Six chapters
• Competencies built into requirements

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Overview PT3 at Castleton
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PT3 at Castleton

• Faculty Development

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PT3 at Castleton

• Student Workshops

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Physical Education

• Developmental infusion of computer skills
• Course-folios and Licensure portfolio in
  electronic format

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Physical Education-first steps

• Curriculum and Instruction
• Basic computer skills
• Basic lesson plan development

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Physical Education-middle steps

• Models of Teaching Elementary Laurie
• Models of Teaching SecondaryJane
• Word-based templates with hyperlinks, iMovie,
  reflective writing on collected artifacts.
• Includes selected entries of final licensure
  portfolio.

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Physical Education-Licensure

• Dreamweaver based
• Incorporation of final reflections of each
  portfolio entry.
• Introduction of personal theme.
• Many more photos!
• Erikas example

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Employment Portfolios

• Workshops at end of semester
• Selected artifacts
• Saras example

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Elementary/Secondary

• Skills embedded in coursework
• Models of Elementary/Secondary
• Entry 1 Teaching Episodes
• iMovie, taping, lesson plans

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EDU 3450 Edu Computers

• Blogs-practice reflective writing
• example Laurie
• Blackboard eportfolio system

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Individual Student Requests

• Videotaping in the classroom
• iMovie
• Scanning student work
• General portfolio advice
• Confidentiality

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Videoediting Suite

• Housed in Library
• VHS/digital
• iMovie trained
• Student mentor support

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Presentations 2005-2006

• VSC Teaching Learning Technologies Conference
  ePortfolios in Teacher Preparation Programs (May
  2005)
• Kappa Delta Pi Electronic Portfolio
  Development First Steps (Nov 2005)
• Council of Exceptional Children Embedding
  Electronic Portfolios in a Developmental Initial
  Licensure Special Education Program (Nov 2005)
• SITE Reflective Writing in ePortfolios. March
  2006