Digital Portfolio Monthly Templates for Google Drive™
Perfect for Use at Student-Led Conferences!
Do you struggle with creating and maintaining paper student portfolios? Is preparing for parent-teacher conferences stressful, with you feeling buried under piles of papers, looking for evidence of student progress? My Digital Portfolio Monthly templates are just what you need!
Digital Portfolios are an amazing way to have your students collect and build a body of evidence of their learning, while encouraging student reflection, and goal-setting, both of which are so powerful! And because students are self-selecting the evidence for their portfolios, they are more invested in their learning, and YOU are freed up to do all the other things!
Each month, there are 6 templates. At the beginning of the month, students set a monthly goal. During the month, they collect and add work samples to demonstrate progress on that goal as well as other learning. They also add photos of what they are doing in the classroom. At the end of the month, they reflect on 3 things they are proud of for the month, highlight and reflect on at least 1 important piece of work, rate themselves on behavior and work habits, and reflect on how they did with their goal. I include detailed directions for how to get started and examples of completed templates.
Benefits of Digital Portfolios
- Allows students to track and demonstrate their growth over time.
- Promotes student responsibility, reflection, and independence
- Helps develop 21st Century Skills of oral and written communication
- Accessible from any device with internet connection
- Responsibility for gathering artifacts shifts from teacher to student
- Allows for a greater variety of evidence of mastery beyond paper/pencil artifacts
- Ability to add video or audio clips
- No more bulky paper portfolio binders to store!
- Parents can easily see what their students are working on
- Makes student-led conferences a breeze!
- Easy to differentiate for each learner
- While paper portfolios get stored or discarded at the end of a school year, digital portfolios can remain available and easily accessible to students, parents, and educators.
Read what customers are saying about this resource.
"This is a wonderful resource to help build digital portfolios in the virtual setting!! This is one I will use for many years to come!" -Erin R.
"Wow. I have considered making my own digital portfolio several times and you just saved me hours of work. The product is colorful and very thorough. I love the way students can add more slides. The examples are PERFECT and the direct links to other slides are appreciated. I can't wait to see student creativity as they work on their portfolio. No more piles of papers. Thank you for the extensive directions and suggestions provided with the product." -Leslie M.
"Thank you for your resource. Just what I needed for student led conferences. Students like to showcase their own work and allowing them to self-select is a great idea. Clean simple designs are wonderful." -MPM
You will receive:
- 110+ pages of monthly templates
- 16 pages of data tracking forms for ELA and math targets. Choose the pages that work for you and your students.
- Teacher Directions
- Student Directions
- A Teacher Tutorial with general directions for adding files to Google Drive and sharing them with students
Note: This resource is designed for grade 3-6 classrooms that have 1:1 Chromebooks or iPads, or at least regular access to technology. If you only have access to technology once a week, this will likely not work well for you.
When you purchase this resource, you receive a PDF file with directions for this project, and a link to the actual Google Slides file. When you click the link, you will be prompted to make a copy of the file, and it will be added to your own Google Drive. *Note: If you do not yet have a free Google account, you will need to sign up for one prior to downloading. Instructions are in the Teacher Tutorial.
*IMPORTANT: This is a digital file housed on Google Drive. You will initially receive a pdf file with a link to downloading the actual Google Slides resource on Google Drive. You can assign activities through Google Classroom, or share them with students through their Drive.
Please download my preview file to see all that is included and check out my other digital products for Google Drive!
Thanks!
Cathy McGaffin, aka Downeast Teach
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