Transitioning from Students to Professionals: Using a Writing across the Curriculum Model to Scaffold Portfolio Development

Autor/inn/en	Elliott, Lori; Daily, Nancy Lee; Fredricks, Lori; Graham, Meadow Sherrill
Titel	Transitioning from Students to Professionals: Using a Writing across the Curriculum Model to Scaffold Portfolio Development
Quelle	In: Teacher Educator, 43 (2008) 1, S.46-58 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0887-8730
Schlagwörter	Teacher Educators; Portfolios (Background Materials); Role; Student Teachers; Student Teacher Evaluation; Qualitative Research; Action Research; Writing Across the Curriculum; Portfolio Assessment; Writing Workshops; Writing Apprehension + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Rollen; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Qualitative Forschung; Projektforschung; Portfoliobeurteilung
Abstract	Teacher educators have found portfolios to be a valuable way to judge readiness for student-teaching and initial certification as well as an effective means of examining and validating teacher preparation programs. Tension exists between using the portfolio as a product for evaluation and maintaining its focus as a personal examination, synthesis, and reflection on becoming a teacher. This qualitative action research study was designed to explore the effects of incorporating writing workshops built on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) principles into the initial portfolio process required of students during their first semester in an undergraduate middle-grades teacher-education program. Findings indicate that the students approached the portfolio requirement from a consumer perspective and that writing anxiety was a major obstacle. Implications of the study point to a need for student writing support for the portfolio and a need to view the portfolio construction process as a critical step in the transition from student to professional educator. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10