Portfolio is a kind of visiting card,solid and impressive, which characterizes your performance, the qualities necessary to achieve success. It collects all your achievements, highlights the stages of creative growth. Do not think that this is only a large resume. Portfolio helps to analyze the work, fix the results achieved, monitor personal growth.

Paper and electronic portfolio

There are two ways to provideinformation. This is a paper portfolio and an electronic one. Paper includes various kinds of information about your activities. This is a folder with inserts. In our time of universal computerization and involvement in the world wide web of the Internet, the electronic version becomes more and more actual. In this case, the portfolio is a collection of documents collected and stored electronically. However, simply saving files to a folder on the computer is not enough. After all, in this case they will be available only to you. Because of this, online versions, published on the Internet most often in the form of a personal website, became very popular.

Features of the portfolio of the teacher.

His portfolio of photographs are actors,model. But most people will need a different kind of business card, containing mainly documents, extracts, photocopies, and not photographs. For example, a teacher's portfolio.

In the conditions of the modern school it becomes everythingmore necessary for the presentation of the teacher, summarizing the work, attestation to a higher category. This portfolio, of course, will mostly consist of various kinds of documents. In the teacher's portfolio, as a rule, the following sections are distinguished:

• positive dynamics of achievements of pupils of the given teacher for the last 4-5 years;
• the results of the activity of the teacher as the head of the class, the leading circles;
• use of modern technologies in work;
• generalization of the experience of pedagogical work and its dissemination;
• participation in various competitions and olympiads;
• passing courses to improve their skills.

Such information can be presented both in a paper folder and in the form of a teacher's website.

What does the student's portfolio include?

Portfolio of the schoolboy contains not onlyinformation about his academic successes, but also information about extracurricular work (participation in circles, sections). This helps to form a general opinion about the personality of the student, his aspirations, interests. The portfolio is made in free form, but, as a rule, has sections related to the biography of the student, his success in studies, participation in olympiads and competitions, with various achievements (awards, diplomas, photo prizes, etc.), participation in extracurricular activities, achievements and victories in competitions in circles, sections. You can also include student work (essays, drawings, applications).

So, the benefit of the portfolio is beyond doubt. It also serves for personal orientation, building a model for further self-improvement, and as a business card representing you to the teacher, partner, employer.