Final Portfolio

Attach: Rubric.doc

Turn in portfolio items

1. Reflective overview
2. Finished writing
3. Writing assignments
4. All materials from midterm portfolio

Reflective Overview

As in the midterm portfolio, the final portfolio's reflective writing should be written last, as a "cover letter" introducing and explaining your portfolio. This reflective writing should focus on progress: how has your understanding of yourself as a writing and teacher of writing changed as a result of writings, readings, and class activities? How will you incorporate your learning into your own classroom? What questions/concerns are you still left with about writing and teaching?

Finished Writing

This assignment asks you to rethink and revise the draft from the Midterm Portfolio to create a finished writing (6-8 pages). It's not just expansion: your revisions should demonstrate your growth as a writer, improvement in attention to audience, a willingness to take some risks and explore the subject in more depth, and continued development in understanding of course concepts. It will be important to explain these writings fully in your reflective overview. Include for this part of the portfolio:

• Finished writing
• Drafts
• Workshop writings that originally inspired the writing, plus any other writings since midterm that show new discoveries related to draft and revision process
• Materials that demonstrate writing process (brainstorming for revisions, resources used in draft, revision and editing strategies for advanced drafts, and peer editing/peer evaluations)

Writing Assignments

As the last part of this portfolio assignment, you will be required to create (as an individual) three writing lessons for three different grades at your certification level. Two of the lessons will be mini-lessons on a writing-related topic. The third will be an extended writing lesson plan that will cover at least a week and include the writing process. All plans must reflect the TEKS, SELA, and course concepts. One of your plans must be on a visual/media literacy-related topic.

The audience for these plans, in addition to yourself as a teacher, will be fellow teachers. You will be asked to develop the longer plan so that it could be posted at NCTE's Read/Write/Think Lesson Plan site.

• Instructions for Mini-lessons
• Instructions for Week-long plan

Here is an excellent example of a secondary level writing lesson plan created for a Texas school: Writing Lesson Plan.

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