Teaching with Career Portfolios

Faculty
In-services Available

The Learnovation team has been conducting faculty in-services since 1996 with the first edition of Creating Your Career Portfolio—At a Glance Guide. In-services are typically customized to your program and staff needs. We encourage counselors to also be part of the trainings. Common topics addressed typically include—

How to shift classroom projects to work sample quality
How to integrate “Across the curriculum” needs into the portfolio
How to get to know your local job market
How to grade and evaluate the career portfolio
How to transition a career portfolio from year to year

Dr. Anna Graf Williams can work with your school to assist you in earning professional development hours or continuing education credit.

Get a Career Portfolio Bundle Pack for only $69!

Includes:

Standard Portfolio Kit
Creating Your Career Career Portfolio Practical Exercises Workbook
Creating Your Career Portfolio: At-A-Glance Guide for Students

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Teaching with Career Portfolios?

Detailed curriculum plan now online

Includes grading rubrics for:

Career Portfolios
Component parts of a Career Portfolio
Exercises from the Creating Your career Portfolio Practical Exercises Workbook
Electronic Career Portfolios

Teaching students how to develop career portfolios is like handing them money for life. The career portfolio is a process that can work for life. If you are looking for ways to take the career portfolio elements across the curriculum or for suggestions on how to teach difficult sections—read on.

Helping Students Find Work Samples

It can be difficult to know where to start with the development of work samples. Here are a few hints on where to look.

Classroom projects
Certificates of participation
A summary of a school project
Picture of a finished poster presentation
Spreadsheets, PowerPoint summaries or databases you created.
Reports
Project overviews with feedback sheets or grades
Results of simulations
Internship reviews
Community Service Projects
Executive Summaries of large class projects
Letter of recommendations, thank you letters, Kudos
Photos of work
Hobby skill sets

How to Select Work Samples

—ask yourself the following questions about each sample:
Is this my best work?
Does it show my skills?
Am I proud of all f this sample . . . all or part of it?

When in doubt, leave it out—Never include a work sample that you are not proud to be associated with now or in the future. More is not necessarily better.