e-Portfolio

The e-Portfolio is a program component linked to the Concurrent BEd courses. It is a performance assessment tool that requires you, as a developing teacher, to demonstrate your learning and reflection through the analysis of a variety of artifacts that represent your experiences and evidence of learning. The e-Portfolio is developed progressively from Years 3 to 5 of the program. It involves ongoing monitoring, peer feedback, and self-assessment.

The e-Portfolio can serve as an organizer, a goal setter, and a descriptor. It helps you to compile evidence of your learning, as well as to develop technology skills, metacognitive skills, relationship building skills, assessment abilities, and awareness of the need for constant professional development. The e-Portfolio provides you with a structure to reflect regularly on your strengths and weakness as you select artifacts for your e-Portfolio.

Focus on Technology

The e-Portfolio is embedded in Blackboard. The use of e-Portfolios also serves the added benefit of familiarizing you with technology and multi-media formats so that you become competent and confident in using technology and e-Portfolios with your own students. The Blackboard online environment provides an accessible and creative format for displaying work in multi-media formats, including text, sound, graphics, photographs, and video. Thus, e-Portfolios demonstrate wider dimensions of learning than just paper-and-pencil work.

Support & Resources

To help you with your e-Portfolio, extensive resources, including online learning modules about the technology and reflective writing, were developed and posted within the Concurrent Education Community Organization on Blackboard. In addition to support provided by your B.Ed. instructors, you are encouraged to contact an e-Portfolio specialist at the Academic and Cultural Support Centre at OISE to consult about your e-Portfolio and get additional support.