To Record Development, Learning and Growth

Portfolios and journals provide a record of a student's growth and development over time. They serve as a visual representation of the student's learning journey, and can be used to reflect on what has been accomplished and identify areas for future growth.

The incorporation of reflection in portfolios enhances students' accountability for their learning process, as it acts as a comprehensive archive of student work, self-evaluations and teacher evaluations.

It is important for portfolios to be regularly updated and include a range of materials that demonstrate the students' achievement of learning goals, self-reflections, feedback from teachers and assessments using rubrics.

The portfolio can showcase the students' growth towards academic objectives as well as ATL skills, the Learner Profile and any school-specific targets.

Some teachers might organise their portfolios by subject, in which students choose their top pieces of work from each subject to demonstrate their progress. On the other hand, other schools arrange portfolios based on learning objectives, in which students select works that demonstrate their mastery of each objective, regardless of the subject it is from.