Week 06: Apply

 

How to Build A Life Portfolio into Everyday Teaching & Learning  

1. Watch as North Bay educators from California discuss how they use portfolios to have students capture their learning and reflect on this process. 

  

2. Think about the things you will do as an educator to help students expand and/or grow their own life portfolio. These things will include more than just discussions of how students mastered academic content or developed content-based skills; in fact, a Life Portfolio encompasses all aspects of life! As Julia and Kaki point out, a tension exists between the so-called fun, elective classes that provide opportunities for students to engage in making and problem solving and academic classes that have traditionally focused on covering a large amount of information in a short time. The "coverage" mindset that so many educators and parents hold is a fallacy. The fallacy of coverage assumes, as Bob Lenz Links to an external site., the founder of Envision Schools, states, "If I cover it, students learn it." And as Julia aptly points out in the video above, "There is a lot of lost learning in an academic classroom that does not take the time to delve deeper and (allow for students to) make more meaning." 

3. Design Challenge: Design a lesson or activity in which students analyze their own Life Wheel based on the major dimensions in their lives. You can develop these dimensions with your students or learners or they can choose their own. The goal of this challenge is to offer students an opportunity to take responsibility for their own learning and to develop the habit of analyzing their lives and building their own Life Portfolio. 

4. Share your ideas and inspirations on Twitter #edupreneur! 

 

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