Preservice and inservice professional portfolios are currently being used as an assessment tool in many teacher education programs. Johns Hopkins University's Graduate Division of Education has been a leader in the development of a valid and reliable portfolio process for assessing graduates. For nearly a decade, portfolios have been used in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program. With the award of a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology (PT3) grant in 1999, we have worked with our Center for Technology in Education (CTE) to develop an electronic portfolio process.

The Hopkins portfolio process is a reflective exercise that illustrates the teacher candidate's professional growth and mastery of the 10 The Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) principles. Presented as a Master’s thesis, the portfolio is reviewed by a team of Hopkins faculty and public school teachers and administrators trained in the review process. The Hopkins Portfolio process has served as the model for many teacher education programs across the nation.

The following site provides a description of the step-by-step process, additional readings, activities to support the portfolio development process, and examples/models of electronic portfolio components to assist in the development of a standards based teaching portfolio.