Portfolio

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Portfolio
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• A portfolio is a purposeful collection of your
  work that tells the story of the your efforts,
  progress, or achievement in a given area.
• Service Plan Oriented
• Focus on Skill Development
• Multiple activities
• Self-Evaluate
• Open-ended
• Develop critical thinking skills
• Evidence of student self-reflection

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Why keep a portfolio? What are the benefits?

• To monitor achievement of Service Plan Goals
• To Monitor progress and to see the benefits of
  your hard work.
• To learn new skills
• To show evidence of growth as you prepare to
  graduate from WRA
• For future reference
• Identify individual values and strengths
• Celebrating achievements

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Structure

• Initially your Portfolio should focus on highly
  structured details with an emphasis on skill
  development (ready made forms, fill in the blank,
  etc).
• As you progress and develop you should acquire
  the skills to publish and create your own work.
• As you progress through your program you need to
  gradually assume more responsibility for
  orchestration of your personal accomplishments.

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Staff Role
Staff will facilitate an attitude of enthusiasm
for quality work and high interest in portfolio
development. Portfolios should not dominate your
time, but rather be a regularly scheduled
activity filled in shorter portions of time
(10-15 min) daily or weekly, consistently
throughout your enrollment.
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Service Plans

• The Service Plan should be an integral part of
  the portfolio. The portfolio should reflect the
  students Service Plan goals and should also be
  reviewed regularly, particularly with parents at
  parent weekend.

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What should a portfolio include?

• Personal Page
• Mission Statement
• Service Plan
• Autobiography
• Achievements
• Values and Goals
• Life Plan
• Educational Section
• Occupational Development Section
• Treatment Related assignments

• Discovering and admitting my problems
• Character Development Section
• Service Projects
• Journals
• Seminars and Parent Weekends
• Home Visits
• Home Contract
• Applications and Request for Graduation
• Other Stuff

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Suggestions for Organizing

• Remember It is YOUR portfolio it should
  reflect YOU and YOUR style. Take pride in
  yourself.

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Personal Section

• Essential Information All about me
• Mission Statement
• Personal Values and Goals
• Personal Autobiography
• Personal history
• Friends, school, self, family
• Life experiences (how they affected me)

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Service plan and Achievements

• Current copy of YOUR service plan
• Everything you do should fit in to your service
  plan these are meant to be personal.
• Identify your 16 achievements Plan
• Written summaries of each achievement
• In the future the achievement program will GROW

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Education

• Educational Goals
• Report Cards / Transcripts
• SAT / ACT Scores
• College Exploration Activities
• Awards
• Post High School Planning
• How are your current activities and classes
  related to your long term career goals.

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Treatment / Personal Development

• Equiptment Meetings
• Ed. Audio / Ed. Video
• Personal Solutions
• PPC Skills
• Character Development Activities
• Treatment specific activities
• Etc. Etc. Etc.

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Service Activities and Service Project

• Collect Ideas
• Journal you progress in detail
• Record ALL your service activities
• Write about your extra curricular activities
• This is where you keep track of your Service
  project from beginning to end

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Occupational Development

• Hobbies
• Career exploration activities (career fair)
• Post High School planning

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Journals Seminars Parent Weekends

• Notes
• Plans
• Submissions
• Ideas

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Home Visits Home Contracts

• Each home visit should have a purpose
• The first home visit should focus on family
• The second home visit should focus on building
  structure and preparing for when you return home
  to live.
• You should begin developing your home contract
  within a few weeks of your enrollment. It is an
  ongoing process.

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Application for Graduation

• Be creative. Collect writings, pictures, samples
  of your BEST work.
• Consider recording the solutions that worked for
  you. How did you overcome specific challenges.
• Show evidence of your stages of moral
  development.
• Submitting your portfolio to cottage becomes your
  application for graduation from WRA. It should
  show evidence of all that you have accomplished.