Digital portfolios is a new way to allow students to keep up with their work, with out having piles of papers that stack up. These can be saved used web pages or apps. This keeps students work easy to access for reflection and growth evidence, as well as longevity. This is a way teachers and students create their own evidence of learning. Digital portfolios is also an easy way to share their accomplishments. This motivates the students to do their best work to share in their digital portfolio! One of the most popular digital portfolio is Seesaw. Seesaw allows students to record and display their samples for their digital portfolio. They can actually mark notes and comment on their samples. These portfolios can be shared with parents, and teachers. This is a great ways to collect formative assessments with student work.
The link below will take you to the Seesaw app, where you can see Seesaw in action!
http://web.seesaw.me
Student led conferences embodies the 21st century skills we want for our classroom. Student led conferences are where the students lead their own conferences with their parents. This allows for reflection of their work so far. It is important that the student collaborates with their teacher to gather work and reflection notes. It is important that the students plan for these conferences in advance. The students will actually communicate their progress, strengths, weaknesses, and plans for the future with their teacher as well as their parents. Student conferences make the students think critically on what they have accomplished so far, what they would like to share with their parents, and how they plan to improve in the future. The students will then be responsible for actually creating their conference. This can be done using digital portfolios, posters, notebooks, and displays. The parents, and instructors are their for support and positive feedback to support the students.
Here is an example of student led conferences in a pre-k setting:
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