Teaching English

  
Recording your development

Add anything to your portfolio which you feel records your growth as a teaching professional!

Here are some suggestions:

  • Example lesson plans
  • Feedback from supervisors, mentors, peers
  • Letters/notes from learners
  • Letters/notes from parents
  • Materials you have created
  • Observation reports
  • Professional development plan
  • Programmes/information/handouts from workshops, seminars, conferences you have participated in
  • Qualifications
  • Reflections following observations
  • Reflections on aspects of your teaching practice
  • Reflections on learning diary
  • Reflections on materials you have read/research carried out
  • Reflections on training sessions you have attended
  • Reviews of development plans
  • Reviews of lesson plans and activities
  • Samples of learners' work and your feedback to them
  • Syllabuses - the school's or one you have created
  • Plans for training sessions delivered by you
  • Record of guidance you have given to a colleague

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