After creating this portfolio I thought about how I could use it in the future. I feel it is a great idea to allow students to create their own mathematics portfolio of items from the whole course. It can be divided by units with at least one item per unit.
A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that tells the story of a student’s efforts, progress, or achievement. It must include student participation in the selection of portfolio content, criteria for selection, criteria for judging merit, and evidence of student self-reflection. It is excellent to incorporate this into your classroom because it will engage students in learning content, help students learn the skills of reflection and self-evaluation, and understand what quality work is. It also creates an opportunity to document student learning in ways other than the traditional assessment.
This is why it is a great idea to try and incorporate this into your classroom so that students have an end of year they can carry along with them for the future.
