Implementation Outline for CTE Eportfolios

 Pre-implementation (Six months before start of Fall 2020)

 Innovation Proposal – states why eportfolios should be used and how they will support learning
 Administrators
 Review all technology policies
 Ensure acceptable use polices support eportfolios
 Ensure the infrastructure (computers and computer network) can support
additional digital use
 Career and Technology Educators
 Literature Review – supports eportfolios as a learning tool and suggests ways to enhance
learning
 Provide adequate information on the value of eportfolios
 Eportfolio recruitment video- a short story how the eportfolio can be used to support learning
using a student that is excited about being able to show work they are proud of.
 Provide adequate professional development to the career and technology education (CTE)
teachers. Model how the eportfolios can be done. Give adequate time for teachers to make and
establish lesson plans to embed the eportfolios.
 Provide continual support of professional development as needed
 Provide professional development on how security of the eportfolios will be provided
 Provide digital citizenship lesson plans
 Planning (one month before start of Fall 2020)
 Ensure students will have access to computers and the internet
 CTE Classes have access to computers every class
 No funding needed
 Computers are already in classrooms
 Web site platforms all have a free component
 Put plan in syllabus- explain in syllabus how eportfolios will enhance and personalize each
students learning by giving them a voice about each health career they choose to research
throughout the year. Explain how it will give them a chance to reflect on the work posted
furthering their connection to the work posted. Acknowledge the eportfolio will be password
protected.
 Parents have to sign receipt of syllabus giving permission
 Incorporate eportfolios into the lesson plan first week of school
 Post lesson plan as per policy
 Implementation (Begin the first week of Fall 2020)
 Create eportfolio website in class- a discussion about different websites available will take place
with the students. Students will take ownership by deciding which site works best for them.
 Showing my website will help students visualize work submitted and the reflections made
 Allow adequate time for students to make the eportfolio (2-3 block classes)
 Introduce career project
 Each student will choose a career to follow- allowing the students to choose gives them
ownership of their learning
  Students may change career choice – this is a time to allow students to explore which
careers seem like the best fit for them. It is about learning and researching the
interactions taking place with in health care. The eportfolio is a tool to help engage
them in the exploration.
 As the instructor presents a given career, students will record in the eportfolio work done
and how it connects to their chosen career. Guided questions will be used to assist
reflections on the task presented.
 Students decide on what work will be presented allowing different ways to show learning
has taken place properly.
 Student relatable articles/videos on internet safety and digital citizenship will be presented at
the time the websites are made.
 Students will reflect on their eportfolios about safety
 Safety reflection will need to stay in a prominent area of the eportfolio
 Create password protection that could be removed as student becomes an adult
 Share eportfolio with parents first month of Fall 2020 school year
 Students email parents and cc’s instructor about eportfolio – students learn to properly
email someone and request at least one comment to be made on the eportfolio
 Gives parents an opportunity to see student’s work and the learning taking place.
 Makes students responsible for the work presented and increased ownership with a larger
audience than the instructor
 Share eportfolio with someone in administration (school or district level) by the end of first
quarter
 Email eportfolio to someone in administration
 Cc instructor and parents
 Request admin make at least one comment on some reflection. Allows administration to see
the learning taking place and the value of the eportfolios.
 Increases the benefit of eportfolio and ownership if presenting to someone with authority.
 Survey students and have them reflect on eportfolio progress
 Adjust any needed eportfolio guidance
 Share eportfolio with someone in chosen career field by the end of the semester
 Email eportfolio to professional in chosen career field – instructor will assist students to find
someone in their chosen career. May provide a mentor to the career field. The professional
audience provides a need for deeper connections to learning and a voice beyond the school
environment. Real world connections could be made, which would be more difficult without
the assistance of the eportfolio.
 Cc instructor and parents
 Request responder to make at least one comment on some reflection
 Share eportfolio with administrator again to show progress and sustainability by the end of the 3
quarter
 Email eportfolio to someone in administration
 Cc instructor and parents
 Request admin make at least one comment on some reflection
 Survey students and have them reflect on eportfolio progress- this gives students a
voice in their learning and assists in improving eportfolios as a learning tool.
  Reflect on surveys and adjust eportfolio plan as needed
 Share eportfolio with professional in chosen career field and next year’s health science teacher
by the end of the school year – Provides a possible mentor for the student as they connect to
the real world of chosen career. Provides a connection to the next sequence of class. Provides
evidence of learning so next instructor will have confidence in student. Increases voice and
ownership of learning as student progresses through the health science program.
 Cc instructor and parents
 Request responder to make at least one comment on some reflection
 Post-Implementation
 Reflect throughout whole process and adjust as needed
 At the end of the year present eportfolio to Career and Technology Educators (CTE) along with
Administrator
 Walk them through the entire process, reflections, student surveys with reflections and
career professional feedback- site all the areas learning has taken place and the growth of
the students. Show them how the eportfolios connected them to the real world.
 If feedback is positive continue with assisting coworkers with implementing eportfolios
throughout CTE as it could relate to each individual program.