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PORTFOLIO UPDATE FOR ADMISSION TO THE PROFESSIONAL SEMESTER Level III

Procedures Place Level I portfolio rubric in front of binder. Place Level II portfolio rubric in front of binder.

Print a transcript from Campus Connect. It does not need to be an official copy. On the transcript, highlight “Admission to Dept. of Education” and “Foreign Language Proficiency”. If either of these items is missing from your transcript, you will not be able to submit Level III portfolio or apply for the student teaching semester.

Documentation Logs The portfolio documentation logs have been reduced from 6 to 3. Please transfer your data to these new forms. The forms are available on Bruce Belanger’s share folder on his web page.

Documentation of Competencies Oklahoma state law requires teacher candidates to document 15 competencies for initial licensure and certification. For completion of Level III, 10 of the 15 competencies must be documented. It is required that Competency 10 and Competency 13 be documented prior to student teaching.

Competency 10 Competency 10 states that the teacher candidate: Encourages interaction with school colleagues Encourages interaction with parent/families Encourages interaction with the community Artifacts for this competency are often from the Exceptional Child course, through participation in Special Olympics.

Competency 13 Competency 13 states that teacher candidates: Understand legal rights and responsibilities Understand rights of students Understand rights of parents/families Artifacts for this competency are often from Foundations of Education, when candidates and instructors write a reflection after discussion of school law.

Completed Competency A completed competency contains the following:  Assignment or other documentation that competency is met.  Proof that the assignment was graded by the course instructor/professor (often in the form of a rubric)  Written reflection stating why the artifact meets the competency, how the artifact relates theory to actual practice, what the candidate learned by completing the artifact, and how this knowledge will benefit the candidate when teaching.  Proof that the instructor/professor has graded the written reflection.

If only 10 competencies are documented at Level III, the remaining 5 are documented in 2 ways:  The student teacher supervisor may require that five individual reflections be prepared.  The student teacher supervisor may determine that the elements of the five remaining competencies are fulfilled in the Culminating Performance Assessment (Teacher Work Sample). It is the prerogative of the student teacher supervisor to determine how the remaining competencies are documented.

Standards A-G Standards A-G are typically documented through the observation logs. If the teacher candidate provides updated and complete information on the field experience logs, then no additional documentation is needed.

Due Date Level III portfolios are due: Thursday, April 5, 2012 Please bring portfolios to EDU 110 and submit to Rosemary no later than 4:30 p.m.