Purpose of Portfolio: demonstrate achievement of  Core Values:  Collaboration, Differences,  Inquiry, Integration, Leadership (Note: you may use all or part of your portfolio to help in your job search, or as a beginning of an ongoing professional portfolio to document progress toward the Washington State Professional Certificate, or simply as a place to save and collect your professional reflections. These purposes, however, are NOT the goal of this particular portfolio.)

Definitions of Core Values and Possible Artifacts:
     Collaboration
     Differences
     Inquiry
     Integration
     Leadership
 

Organizing a portfolio:

1. "Home page" or "Index" introduces you, your portfolio as a whole, and acts as a directory or "Table of Contents". (Note: I recommend a separate, more detailed table of contents that helps readers see the organization of all pages in your portfolio, and how they are linked to one another.)
2. Five "Chapters" or "major sections", one for each core value. 
3. Each "Chapter" has a main "Page" that introduces that section, and acts as a directory or table of contents for that section, as well as several "sub-sections" or "sub-pages". (Some of those "sub-sections" will have sub-sections of their own.)
4.  At every level, there should be a brief description (which may just be the title) of sub-sections, and every sub-section should have a way to navigate back to the homepage, as well as the "Main page" of the other four major sections (core values). 

Portfolio tasks for next time we meet:

1. Begin collecting "artifacts" (the things you wrote on the sticky notes). 
2. Save as many documents as possible electronically on a floppy disk.
3. Prepare a "tree diagram" similar to what we did today, but with specific file names for each artifact that you have actually collected by that time.
4. Begin collecting good quotes, and pictures or clip art that you like, as well as web sites that apply to your teaching specialty or areas of expertise.
5. Write a one or two paragraph introduction to your portfolio, sufficient that by reading it I can get an idea of who you are, and what the portfolio will show (when it is finished).
6. Begin to consider how these 5 core values compare to the core values of the School of Education - Care, Leadership, Service, Competence. You might include this synthesis in your opening paragraph or introduction.