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A professional portfolio is one of the best ways for a professional to showcase their knowledge, skills and experience in their field. Educators will learn the value of a portfolio for job acquisition and career development as they work through the content and format of their own personal and professional portfolio.<\/p>\n

Developing a Professional Portfolio <\/p>\n

What is a Professional Portfolio? <\/p>\n

Organized collections of work compiled for a specific purpose related to the demonstration of one\u2019s learning, skills, and accomplishments.<\/p>\n

They contain purposefully organized documentation that clearly demonstrates specific knowledge, skills, dispositions and accomplishments achieved over time.<\/p>\n

The Process Involves 4 Steps <\/p>\n

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  1. Select personal or professional goal.<\/li>\n
  2. Collect actual items and documents that could demonstrate what you are doing to reach your goal.<\/li>\n
  3. Decide which items best illustrate your achievement of or progress toward the goal.<\/li>\n
  4. Determine how to present the selected items. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Purpose\/Benefit of the Professional Portfolio<\/p>\n

    First, the portfolio process helps students to reframe how they see themselves as learners. <\/p>\n

    It encourages them to think about their learning, and the learning environment, in critical and meaningful ways \u2013 to become mindful, intentional, self-directed learners. For many learners, the portfolio process reignites their intellectual curiosity, the same quality we admire and seek to foster in children.<\/p>\n

    Second, the portfolio process provokes adult learners to look at education differently \u2013 as integrative and ongoing \u2013 reaching far beyond the confines of the classroom and continuing throughout life. <\/p>\n

    We have heard so often from students over the years that they have felt that their college classes were irrelevant and had no connection to \u201creal life.\u201d Many have experienced higher education as a series of hoops one jumps through to get the \u201cpiece of paper.\u201d On the contrary, students who have experienced the portfolio process report a high degree of connectedness between what they do in the college classroom and what they experience beyond the classroom door. The real-world nature of portfolio work bridges the theory-to-practice gap in ways that result in meaningful learning and change. Course content ceases to be the stuff one crams for a test and soon forgets. It comes to be owned by the learner, and therefore it becomes part of the fabric of one\u2019s professional life and development.<\/p>\n

    Difference Between Personal & Professional Portfolio<\/p>\n

    http:\/\/www.unhm.unh.edu\/pdf\/Career-Portfolio.pdf><\/p>\n

    Retrieved on 17-May-2011<\/p>\n

    Contents of a Professional Portfolio<\/p>\n

    Design and Develop a Format and Building Your Portfolio<\/p>\n

    Step 1: Title Page<\/p>\n