What is a Professional Portfolio?
Purdue University Calumet believes that effective teachers and teacher leaders must be able to demonstrate the development of their knowledges, skills and dispositions (attitudes) through a collection of artifacts organized into a professional portfolio. In addition to artifacts, reflection narratives must be included in which the candidate writes about how he/she demonstrated a particular standard through professional experience. The portfolio at PUC is designed to lead the candidate from a beginning level of attainment of the standards to an emerging level by the time he/she reaches graduation. Each course in the PUC program provides an opportunity for the degree seeking candidate to create a portfolio entry. By the time the candidate is ready to graduate, she/he has a complete professional portfolio.
