Portfolios
Teacher Candidates enrolled in the School Health Education
Program will ultimately be assessed through a portfolio process.
These pre-service teachers will submit first an on-line
“Preparing to Teach” Portfolio to the School Health Faculty, in
their last semester on campus before student teaching. Each
teacher candidate will work with a portfolio advisor throughout
this two-step process. This first portfolio includes a narrative
that the student develops describing their competence in the
Wisconsin Teacher Standards. The narrative reflects how
experiences that the student has had in the application courses
of their program show their competence in the ten standards.
Artifact, projects developed during the “senior block” of
courses, are filed in the electronically generated portfolio as
indicators of their progress in their skill development. This
first portfolio must be approved before a candidate moves into
their student teaching experience. A second portfolio, “Student
Teaching Portfolio”, will be developed using required artifacts
designed during the student teaching experience that continue to
support their competence in the ten Wisconsin Teacher Standards.
http://dpi.wi.gov/tepdl/stand10.html This portfolio must be
approved in conjunction with the successful completion of
student teaching in order to receive licensure for school health
education and graduation from UW-La Crosse.