How Keeping a Teacher Portfolio Supports Teaching

Keeping a teaching portfolio is not compulsory but we think that it is an essential way of demonstrating learning and progress as a teacher during the time spent on a professional development course.

Teach2030 provides information and new ways of thinking about teaching. We can acknowledge completion of a course with a certificate but this will not show how a teacher has embedded the techniques. Your portfolio is an opportunity to demonstrate learning and how you have developed your classroom practice.

Your teacher portfolio is also something that might be useful in the future, as additional evidence of your willingness to self-improve. Employers should be impressed by your organisation skills and clear outlining of your interests/capabilities as a teacher. It is useful to reflect on what you have learnt and document evidence of your studies for further education courses; it may even help to prepare you for interviews.