Student Portfolio

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Student Portfolio

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What is a Portfolio?

• Is a hinged cover or flexible case for carrying
  loose papers, pictures or pamphlets
• The office and functions of a minister of state
  or member of a cabinet
• The securities held by an investor
• The commercial paper held by a financial house
  (as a bank)

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So what should be included a students portfolio?
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• A table of contents
• A course Syllabus
• Daily Assignments, quiz, daily work, projects,
  written and or reading assignments
• A pre-test to check the level of
  experience/knowledge, skills in areas such as
  reading, writing, math.
• His/Her accomplishments such as certificates of
  completion, awards, pictures of the student
  working on projects, doing volunteer work,
  letters from sponsors

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• Ribbons, trophies, letters of recommendation or
  recognition for perfect attendance, top 5 or
  10, TAAS scores, transcripts, community
  projects, etc.
• A resume
• An example of an application for employment,
  their personal data or any pertaining information
• A certificate of completion from the program of
  study.

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Course Syllabus(supplied by the instructor)

• A student needs to be aware of the major topics,
  skills , he/she will learn in your course.
• A list of major projects/ and activities, as well
  as teachers procedures for testing, make-up
  work, retest grading policies, etc.

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Students Daily Work

• Daily assignments
• Integration of Reading, Writing, and Math
• Daily Activities
• Safety, tools, terminology, mixture of Chemicals,
  precision measurement, reading blue prints, using
  digital equipment such as computers, internet,
  video recording etc.
• Daily Projects
• The student will be able to

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Exams

• Safety Tests
• Did the student mastered the safety of tools
  equipment to handle precision equipment, digital
  equipment in order to function safely in your
  lab?
• The safety of the student as well as the
  equipment being used.
• Is there evidence of safety tests?
• Weekly Tests
• Semester Exams
• Make-up tests
• TEA requires from teachers to maintain student
  records, and to make them available to parents.

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Competency Profile

• A student progress
• How is the student progress compared to TEKS?
• Student deficiencies
• If student is deficient in some areas, what is
  being done? Retesting, re-teaching?
• Students Strengths Weaknesses
• Is there evidence of strengths and weaknesses?

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Job Skills

• Students Resume
• Samples of resumes available in MS-Office
• Or www. Careermosaic.com
• Career Connections book
• A complete filled out application for employment.
  (to be used as future reference).
• A certificate of completion from your course for
  students who have completed your program.