Resumen de Piloting portfolios: using portfolios in pre-service teacher education
Rosie Tanner, Désirée Longayroux, Douwe Beijaard, Nico Verloop
In this article, we recount our experiences with using portfolios as an instrument for professional development during a one-year pre-service teacher education course for language graduates. After sketching the context of our work we describe why and how we are working with portfolios. We illustrate our belief that portfolios can (a) demonstrate a trainee's learning process over time, (b) illustrate an individual's development, (c) show the complexity of a teacher's life, and (d) stimulate reflection. We describe how we give feedback on portfolios, and how we make recommendations for strengthening our trainees' reflective skills.
