Good Evening! Please take a moment to peruse the sample portfolio (Welcome and three Narrative pages). A link to this site can be found at the bottom of the Portfolio page.

Integrating History and Social Science SSCI193 College of Social Science and Interdisciplinary Studies California State University, Sacramento Week 13 Supporting Language Diversity and Acquisition

Last Time and Today Portfolio Feedback – Patterns, Concerns, and Suggestions (15 minutes) Triad Peer Review (60 minutes) Author’s update (2-3 minutes) Page-by-page feedback (instructor and peers) (5 minutes each page) Member 2 Discussion (5 minutes)

Three Sample Narratives Each of you should now have evolved a framing idea or theme or set of idea and themes. I’ve created three sample narratives to help you envision ways to connect your framing ideas to the story of your unit/lessons. Format 1 (Narrative 1)- Provides a chronology of your unit’s evolution. Framing ideas and themes are discussed in context of various stages of developing your units and lessons. Format 2 (Narrative 2) – The story of your unit is organized around your portfolio’s framing ideas and themes. Provides a thematic discussion of your unit and lesson plan features Format 3 (Narrative 3) – The story of your unit is organized around key ideas from your unit topic. Framing ideas and themes are discussed in the context of key concepts presented in your unit and lesson plans.

Common Feedback Topics/Suggestions Quality of framing ideas and themes: These should be complex, interesting, and intimately embedded in the work you have produced this semester. They should represent an understanding of your values and motivations in connection to your content knowledge, academic and personal experiences, and the topics taken up in your unit. Be careful of the tendency to pontificate about young people. Ideas and experiences you share about young people and teaching should be done to directly illustrate the substance of your unit. Lead with your academic preparation, knowledge of history and social science, over your experience with youth. Beware that extra “adornments”—videos, pictures, images—can pull focus from the substance of your portfolio. Ask yourself, “Does it enhance the visitor’s understanding of my ideas?” If not, remove them or briefly mention them and provide a link to them in text.

Keep things professional Keep things professional. This doesn’t mean that you have to be boring, but you want to make sure that you’re choosing font, design formats, and content that keep the reader focused on who you are as it relates to your competencies for the credential program. Eliminate or reduce personal information that isn’t directly related to the goals of the portfolio. If you want to share a bit of personal info, keep it to a small section of the page. Don’t bury the lead! Your unit topic should come early in your portfolio. Build in continuity with titles.

Privilege your academic knowledge. Use subtitles to provide a snapshot of the content of blog postings, lessons, etc. Take the tone of a tour guide in your welcome page. This portfolio represents… my narrative explains… my unit… my lessons… and my blog… Visitors to your site may not be familiar with the courses you’ve taken. When relevant, make sure to address courses by the topic as well as course numbers.

Avoid making things downloadable. Create a new page or post a PDF. Re-order the pages: Welcome, Narrative, Unit, Lessons, Blog Get rid of the time section of your Narrative 

Online Session 12 Close-read of Triad Peer #3’s portfolio Revise, revise, revise!