JoinTeacher Portfolios: Pathways to Teacher Empowerment
The process of creating teaching portfolios refines an individual’s professional and personal goals. Portfolios document teaching strengths and competencies, and clarify future goals and objectives for the educator (Hurst, Wilson, and Creamer, 1998). Portfolios provide the structure that is necessary in documenting one’s practice. Whether preservice, probationary, or tenured, teachers who are concerned with student achievement and their own professional competence and growth will find learning portfolios to be a valuable tool on the pathway to teacher empowerment.