For the portfolio effort: this is the short form (longer explanations of each are in the syllabus)-- I'm assuming that this is all pretty straight forward- let's hope!  I'm also assuming that you know that you can include anything else you would like, e.g. pictures, additional lesson plans, descriptions of the professional meetings you attended, links to your thesis if it seems to complement the contents and would be something to share with a prospective employer, and so forth.

*****I encourage you to check out the sample portfolios on the Educational Studies web page (go to swarthmore.edu, find education, scroll to the bottom of teacher certification, then use the magical info re. teach and students).  These provide models of how the whole thing could be pulled together, as well as examples of how the different assignments might be approached. 

Contents:

1. Your résumé. 

2.  Description of the school in which you are teaching, the department(s) or cohort of teachers with whom you are working, and the students with whom you are working. 

3. Observations:
a.your cooperating teacher's classes
b. three classes/topics taught by someone other than your cooperating teacher
c. one class in a grade level before and one in a grade level beyond the one in which you are teaching
d.two classes outside your subject or grade
e. one student through an entire day
f.  a resource room class for students at the grade level you are teaching

4. Describe findings from the Flanders-Amidon analysis you conducted on two of the classes you observed.

5. A rubric for content you teach in your classroom. 

6. Lesson plans and copies of any supporting materials from a sequence of three consecutive lessons you teach in one class. A two-paragraph introduction to the materials should precede them in the portfolio. This should overview the students, class content and the school culture briefly.

7. A lesson plan that builds on materials read in a professional journal/publication in your field and an explanation of the links/how you adjusted it. 

8. A detailed three-week lesson plan for your class.

9.  Representative samples of three students' work over the term.

10. Analysis of one lesson in terms of State and National Standards as these apply.

11. Three narrative reports for students in the classes you are teaching.

12. Describe the way in which multiculturalism was addressed in your class. Include in your statement consideration of how the content and/or process of the class would need to be adjusted if the racial/ethnic/gender composition of the class were different.

13. Describe how you could adjust one of the lessons in your three-week plan to enhance its appropriateness given the multi-cultural composition and knowledge of your students.

14. Describe your use of software or other technologies in your teaching generally. 

15. Describe a lesson you taught that employed computers and/or a website for students that you developed, include information about its strengths and weaknesses.

16.  Describe an interdisciplinary activity found on the web (include its url) and its adjustment for use in your classroom. 

17. A summary of a lesson and changes made in order to accommodate: (a) a hearing impaired student, (b) a student in a wheel chair, (c) a student with attention-deficit disorder (ADHD), (d) a student with an emotional problem, or (e) a student with a visual-impairment in your class.

18. Write 1-3 essays that address:  (These should be included in your portfolio.)
a. Reflections - A short essay based on materials in the portfolio in which you re-look at your working theory of instruction written for Educational Psychology.
b. Connections - A short essay based on materials in the portfolio in which you demonstrate thoughtful connections between the content of the Swarthmore/Haverford education courses you have taken and your experience teaching. 
c. Applications - A short essay/analysis of materials in the portfolio in which you analyze the application of content-specific standards in your discipline to the curriculum with which you worked as a student teacher. Based on the standards, make suggestions for the revision of this curriculum the next time it is taught.