Portfolios Pros and Cons by

Pros from Reading

katharinegeiss — 2024-10-29 18:04:40 UTC

Cons from Reading

katharinegeiss — 2024-10-29 18:04:49 UTC

Self Assessment P.2

2024-10-29 22:48:13 UTC

Kinder descriptions for self-assessment were heavily play based and encouraged self reflections, teacher directed conversations, etc.

Self assessment p.6

2024-10-29 22:49:13 UTC

Many families may not have access to online portfolios.

Self assessment p. 28/documentation section

2024-10-29 22:51:56 UTC

A lot of the information was great, but didn't give as many developmentally appropriate specific ideas about what self assessments would look like in kindergarten.

Ex. "Students should be primary collectors of documentation." But what does that look like for a 5 year old?

Portfolio Connection P. XXV/ch. 2 section

2024-10-29 22:53:53 UTC

Discussion of e-portfolios: It was brought up in our last meeting that Seesaw would be a useful tool for kindergarten. If each grade level uses different platforms then it would be difficult for everyone to compile documents into one singular place.

Portfolio Connection P.42

2024-10-29 22:56:12 UTC

Developmental stages focused primarily on play and art. Most of the assessment/portfolio would include teacher dictated writing from a conversation with a child. This seems great and developmentally appropriate, and also unrealistic for a teacher to do for a class of 23 students at multiple points during the year.

Portfolio Connection P. 44

2024-10-29 22:59:07 UTC

Art is used as a main topic for pre-primary portfolios. This would work very well with our Art and the world around us unit in Amplify. I like the idea of saving all our art from the year to include writing, math based art, comprehension based art, etc. but it would be incredibly difficult to store all of those things throughout the year.

2024-10-29 22:59:44 UTC

Portfolios seem like a great way to increase student agency and voice. There was a line in The Portfolio Connection that said "If students graduate from our school still dependent upon others to tell them when they are adequate...then we have missed the whole point of what education is about." (p. xxiii)