Portfolios

I absolutely love portfolios. Portfolios don't only help students and teacher keep track of the student's work but, it shows students the importance and effectiveness of organization. A portfolio allows the students/teachers see how far along the student has come. Keeping the student's work from it being the best or worst work they have done will help them see where things go right and where they go wrong. I love how students/parents/teachers can just go back and look in this portfolio to see where extra help or time is needed. Portfolios can make the assessment process easier. The students' work is their neatly organized for beginning to end for teacher to evaluate. Students know what they are being evaluated on and parents know where the grade is coming from. Also, portfolios can be take home by each student and that student can continue it and start a new at the end of the year. I love the fact that with portfolios you can look back on what you've done.