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Advantages of a Portfolio

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How do you think a portfolio will assist you in your personal and professional development?

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This solution provides four main advantages of portfolios and also how portfolios can help a teacher's professional career and personal development.

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Portfolios are helpful for a number of reasons, including:
1) they are representations of teaching credentials and competencies
2) they offer holistic views of teachers (not just test scores or student report cards)
3) they provide documentation for strengthening interviews and make a teacher ...

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