Good planning is one step that leads to
effective teaching. Lesson plans and units are demonstrations of your
skill in this area.
For a professional employment portfolio, you
will want to find ways to summarize and display your best contributions in this area. You could list topics of your top ten
lesson plans and reflect on why these lessons were effective (use
of technology, recent materials, student response, community
involvement). Provide some examples in a variety of subject areas.
Demonstrating ability to provide differentiated instruction for a
class, as shown under Modifying
Lessons in this eportfolio, would be a significant addition to
your portfolio.
Listing units and drawing attention to
unique features can give interviewers a sense of your competence and
experience.
Web sites are now publishing teacher lesson
plans and should you get your plan published, you can cite the address.
Our College of Education publishes excellent
sample lessons that employ technology. Ask faculty how you can
contribute to this collection. See
http://education.shu.edu/lessonplans/
Providing a URL address in your resume to access your
techprojects provides the hiring committee or interviewer with more
information about your abilities after you leave the interview
and may be a reason for getting invited to return.
