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anchor chart, word wall, worksheet/activities, flash cards, PPT presentation, Kahoot, etc. your differentiated lesson plan, copy of teacher’s notes, translated learning materials for ELLs, modified worksheets/learning activities a lesson plan in which you integrated use of the technology, Kahoot, PPT presentation, avideo recording of yourself (alone) teaching a concept…for example, the video will be uploaded to Google Classroom as a supplemental resource for your students and families, etc. introduction letters/welcome messages,homework journals, book logs to show progress, progress update letters, parent-teacher conference letters, letters, emails, texts of concern, blog posts, Google Classroom or Class Dojo posts or announcements to parents, RemindMe App messages, weekly newsletters What is the artifact? How does the artifact highlight your competency in the area for which it was chosen? What impact did the artifact have on student learning?
PORTFOLIO
Mine ended up similar to this, though I’ve adjusted it slightly since graduating:
Also note that this was done in February 2025, so the course could have changed. The Course of Study for the portfolio course that I used is no longer a live link, so it may have changed.
Part A. Creating, Adding Content To & Submitting Your E-Portfolio
Part B. Educational Beliefs and Practice Reflection (Essay)
B. Include a concise description of your personal educational beliefs and practices in essay format (suggested length of 1–2 pages):
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Task Component
Rubric-Based Guiding Prompt
Additional Support
Resources
Articulation: Review your paper to ensure that organization, conventions, word choice, sentence fluency, and parts of speech are used correctly.
· It is helpful to have someone else review your paper.
Any forms/templates may cause your percentage of similarity to be high. This will not affect your evaluation.
Writing Center Website: The Writing Center can be found in the student portal on the Student Success tab.
The Guide to Academic Writingis our Learning Resource where you can find information on any part of the writing process including APA and Professional Communication - Articulation.
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B1. Discuss why teaching is important to you.
· Explicitly describe why teaching is important to you.
· This may be what influenced or motivated you to become a teacher, or a better teacher.
· What inspires you as a teacher?
· What role do you believe education plays in society or students’ lives?
· Note: Consider including phrasing similar to the following phrase, “Teaching is important to me because…”
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B2. Describe your beliefs as a professional educator about teaching and learning.
B2a. Explain how your beliefs about teaching and learning are supported by theory or research.
· What are your beliefs about how students learn or what promotes student learning?
· What are your beliefs about what constitutes effective teaching?
· Identify a specific theory or research and discuss how it supports your beliefs about teaching and learning.
· Be sure to include an in-text citation and reference for your source.
Educational Theories
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B3. Describe a learning outcome you want to foster in your students (e.g., problem-solving, reasoning, critical thinking, citing text-based evidence, standards).
B3a. Explain how you will use two or more instructional strategies to foster student the learning outcome from part B3.
B3b. Explain how you will use two or more specific assessment tools or strategies to measure student the learning outcome from part B3.
· What skill or knowledge is most important for my students to take away from their time in my classroom?
· What are at least two instructional strategies you will use to teach the desired learning outcome identified in B3?
o Explicitly explain how each instructional strategy will be used to teach the desired learning outcome you identified in B3.
· What are at least two assessment tools or strategies you will use to measure student mastery of the desired learning outcome identified in B3?
o Explicitly explain how each instructional assessment will be used to determine your students’ mastery of the desired learning outcome you identified in B3.
o Make a clear connection to how each strategy/tool will measure growth for the desired learning outcome you identified in B3.
Desired Outcomes
Instructional Strategies in Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
Assessment Methods
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B4. Describe your beliefs as a professional educator about building positive relationships with school stakeholders and explain the strategies you would use to build such relationships.
*Note: For part B4, treat “stakeholders” as one collective group, rather than individuals.
· Stakeholders include all parties that play a role in the education of our children (students, families, colleagues, administration, business and community partners, etc.).
· What are your thoughts on the importance of building positive relationships with stakeholders, especially as it relates to student success?
o Why is it important to build these positive relationships, as it relates to student success?
· What are at least two strategies you will use to build positive relationships with stakeholders?
o What does a positive relationship with stakeholders look like to you, and what are at least two strategies you will use to do so?
Relationships with Stakeholders
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E. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
· Be sure to cite and reference the source for the theory or research discussed in B2a.
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Add the Beliefs & Practices Reflection Essay to your e-portfolio
(See Part A, the “Adding Content” support resource for the application used to create your e-portfolio, to ensure your file is accessible to the evaluator.)
Add the Beliefs & Practices Reflection Essay to your e-portfolio
(See Part A, the “Adding Content” support resource for the application used to create your e-portfolio, to ensure your file is accessible to the evaluator.)
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Part C. Resume (PDF) (update after student teaching)
Done?
Task Components
Additional Resources
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Articulation: Review your paper to ensure that organization, conventions, word choice, sentence fluency, and parts of speech are used correctly.
· It is helpful to have someone else review your paper.
Any forms/templates may cause your percentage of similarity to be high. This will not affect your evaluation.
Writing Center Website: The Writing Center can be found in the student portal on the Student Success tab.
The Guide to Academic Writingis our Learning Resource where you can find information on any part of the writing process including APA and Professional Communication - Articulation.
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C. Include an updated professional résumé that includes each of the following sections:
• professional profile
• certification
• education
• Student Teaching Experience
• work experience
*Your resume should be one page in length and reflect up to a 10-year work history.
Use the following resources as you create your updated résumé:
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Professional Profile
· Describe your teaching strengths and classroom achievements.
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Certification (s)
· List each state certification you have. Include the name exactly as it appears, or will appear, on your license.
· Use your upcoming graduation date as the anticipated certification date
· (find your state-specific certification title associated with your WGU program here...)
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· Sample formatting:
Utah Department of Education - Elementary Education, K-8 Anticipated Graduation Date: June 2024
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Education
· List all degrees, including year earned and name of school/university
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Student Teaching Experience
· Include school district, grade level, subject, and duties
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Work Experience
· No direct teaching experience, other than your student teaching experience?
o Consider including experiences such as volunteer work, camp counselor, private tutor, home school instructor, classroom volunteer, room mom, private music teacher, etc.
· Reflect up to a 10-year work history (see sample resume)
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· You can submit your resume draft to careers@wgu.edu for review.
· If you experience problems the format of your resume, consider saving and uploading it as a PDF file.
· You can submit your resume draft to careers@wgu.edu for review.
· If you experience problems the format of your resume, consider saving and uploading it as a PDF file.
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Part D. Professional Growth Reflection and Growth Plan (Essay)
D. Reflect on your professional growth plan as an educator (suggested length of 1–3 pages) by doing the following:
NO SOURCES NEEDED FOR THIS PART
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Task Components
Rubric-Based Guiding Prompts
Additional Resources
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D1. Describe your overall growth as a teacher thus far.
This is an introductory paragraph:
· As you reflect on your courses and experiences from the start of your program up to this point:
o Describe an early understanding of a teaching practice or belief.
o What is your current understanding of that practice or belief?
o What contributed to that change in understanding (e.g., courses, observations, collaborations with others within the education profession)?
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D1a. Describe a specific professional development activity and explain how the activity has helped deepen your knowledge of the subject matter content you teach.
Examples of Professional Development Activities to consider: in-service or staff development meetings,
, district training, conferences, presentations, videos, webinars, a professional conversation with your Mentor Teacher or another colleague, personal research, etc. · Consider a specific content/subject-matter topic or standard you were asked to teach, with which you were unfamiliar or wanted to learn more about.
o What took place or what was discussed during this PD activity?
o How did engaging in this PD activity increase your knowledge about the content/subject-matter?
o How did the experience help you grow as an educator/
Content Professional Development
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D1b. Describe a specific professional development activity and explain how the activity has enhanced your use of content pedagogy in the classroom.
Examples of Professional Development Activities to consider: in-service or staff development meetings, PLCs, district training, conferences, presentations, videos, webinars, a professional conversation with your MT or another colleague, personal research, etc.
· Consider a specific instructional strategy you were unfamiliar with or wanted to learn more about for use in teaching a topic from your specific content area.
o What took place or what was discussed during this PD activity?
o How did engaging in this PD activity increase your knowledge about the benefits and implementation of this instructional strategy? Be sure to connect to your specific content area.
o How did the experience help you grow as an educator/
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D2. Describe a specific example of collaborating with grade-level, subject, or cross-curricular teams to analyze student data.
D2a. Explain how the collaboration on student data from part D2 influenced the planning and modification of your future instruction.
D2b. Explain how the collaboration on student data from part D2 helped you grow as an educator.
one specific instance in which you collaborated with your host teacher and/or other colleagues to discuss student assessment data (e.g., or summative assessment, benchmark, quiz, MAP scores,
results, etc.).· Who took part in the collaboration and what assessment data was discussed?
· As a result of this analysis of student data, what was determined to be the next instructional steps (e.g., remediation, enrichment, or other adjustments based on the student data)?
· What did you learn from this experience?
· In the future, how will you use student data to inform your instructional decisions?
Professional Collaboration with Colleagues on Data to Modify Instruction
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o Consider the professional organizations you have used or been a part of (e.g., National Education Association (NEA), Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Kappa Delta Pi, etc.).
· Describe at least one specific example of information or materials provided by the organization that contributed to your development as an educator. (e.g., article, instructional resource, research)
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D4a. Describe a specific goal for how you want to grow as an educator.
D4b. Discuss professional growth activities in which you will your goal from part D4a
Describe at least one specific goal for how you want to grow as an educator by doing the following:
· Describe at least one area of teaching in which you would like to continue to grow (e.g., classroom management, technology integration, flexible grouping, differentiating instruction, etc.)
· What are at least two PD activities in which you will participate to learn more about the identified goal in 4a (e.g., PLC, district trainings, conferences, articles, shadowing, collaboration with colleagues)?.
Development of Professional Growth Goal
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Part E. Evidence Artifacts and Commentaries (from Student Teaching)
Directions: Use this checklist to ensure that all rubric components have been addressed. See the Task Requirements within your course of study for details.
E. Provide four unique evidential artifacts created during your Student Teaching, each of which should exemplify a different classroom competency, by doing the following:
Essential Reminders:
· Images/copies of all artifacts must be included within the e-portfolio.
· Each artifact must align with the content and grade level you taught in your Student Teaching as reflected in Part C’s updated résumé.
· Artifacts must be created or modified by you, and may come from your Student Teaching Experience, edTPA/TWS, or prior teaching experiences.
· In adherence with FERPA guidelines, you are not allowed to use videos or pictures that include your students. The parental permission you received during ST was specific to your edTPA or TWS, and not for public use.
· How content is added to your e-portfolio will depend on the file type. For example:
o You could upload or paste images of a word or anchor chart you created
o Upload a worksheet, presentation, or PDF file
o Online games or Quizizz…insert a directly accessible link (no login ) or download a PDF of the game file
There is NO requirement to use added sources in Part E.
Done?
Task Components
Rubric-Based Guiding Prompts
Additional Resources
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E1. Academic Language: one evidential artifact created during your Student Teaching that showcases your competency in the instruction of academic language in the classroom.
Examples:
Note: If you did not create or modify the artifact, you may use the lesson plan into which you incorporated use of the artifact
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E2. Differentiated Instruction as Part of a System of Support in the Classroom: one evidential artifact created during your Student Teaching that showcases your competency in using differentiated instruction in the classroom as part of a system of student support.
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Examples:
Note:
· Explicitly describe the student or group of students you are differentiating for, and
· Discuss how you have differentiated for that specific student or group of students...IEPs, 504s, ELLs, gifted, learning styles, etc.
Note: If you did not create or modify the artifact, you may use the lesson plan into which you incorporated use of the artifact
Differentiated Instruction
· in How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms
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E3. Using Educational Technology to Engage Students in Learning:
one evidential artifact created during your Student Teaching that showcases your competency in using educational technology in the classroom as a way to engage students in their learning.
Examples:
Note:
· The use of links to resources you created is permissible, but all links must allow direct access (no login required).
· You can also download & submit a “Printer-friendly view” of web-based artifacts, as an alternative to submitting a link.
Note: If you did not create or modify the artifact, you may use the lesson plan into which you incorporated use of the artifact
Technology Integration
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E4. Professional Communication with Families: Provide one evidential artifact created during your Student Teaching that showcases your competency in using professional communication with students’ families.
Examples:
Note: Per FERPA guidelines, you must redact all identifying information related to the students, school, and district. Only your identifying info is permissible.
Professional Communication with Families
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Commentaries:
· Write a 1-2 paragraph commentary for each artifact
· Can be combined as one essay, consisting of all four (4) commentaries, OR
· Can be included with the related artifact
For each artifact:
a. Explain how the artifact you provided in part E1 demonstrates your competency in this area, including the effect the artifact had or would have on student learning.
b. Explain, based on the artifact’s effect on student learning, how you would modify the artifact for future use.
Section A of Commentary
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