Materials for Your Teaching Portfolio

Over the course of your teacher preparation program, you will create and collect many materials that you may wish to include in your teacher portfolio as evidence of your knowledge, skills, and attitudes for teaching. These materials should show that you meet the standards for new teachers developed by INTASC, the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium. The INTASC standards are available at http://www.ccsso.org/intascst.html#draft.

To help you begin developing materials for your portfolio, complete one or more of the following activities.

1. This chapter of your textbook introduces the ideas of culturally responsive teaching and equity pedagogy. Describe how you, as a teacher, would go about implementing these ideas with the students you plan to teach. How would you extend your efforts to working with the families of students? (INTASC Principles 3, 5, 7, & 10)
2. Choose one concept from the subject matter you plan to teach. (For example, manifest destiny from social studies, verbs from language arts, or gravity from science.) Describe an activity, lesson, or project on that concept for students at the age level you would like to teach that would address several different learning styles, or one that would empower the students, as recommended by William Glasser's choice theory. (INTASC Principles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7).
3. Describe at least two ways that you, as a teacher, could adapt the teaching of your subject for the needs of an academically gifted student. What are two ways you could adapt your subject matter for the needs of a student with reading disabilities? (INTASC Principles, 3, 4, & 7)