Developing Your Portfolio - Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff: A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional

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Portfolios arenx2019;t just for documenting the work of young childrenx2014;they can also be powerful resources for early childhood educatorsx2019; professional training and development. From evaluating onex2019;s classroom practice to showcasing skills and accomplishments, professional portfolios are a comprehensive record of a career in its entirety. In this book, Marianne Jones and Marilyn Shelton guide both practicing and pre-serve instructors through the process of showcasing their own teaching skills. The authors present numerous examples taken from successful portfolios, provide helpful tips and strategies, combine theory and practice for developing portfolios, and walk readers step-by-step through the creation process. This essential guide will accessibly and effectively guide early childhood educators through the recording of their emerging abilities.

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Marilyn Shelton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Kremen School of Education and Human Development, Department of Literacy and Early Education at CSU Fresno. She studies developmentally appropriate uses of computers with young children and issues of diversity, anti-bias, and peace education. Dr. Shelton has recently edited four training guides for the California Association for the Education of Young Children's Nonviolence in the lives of Children Project.Dr. Marianne Jones, Ed.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Consumer Sciences at CSU Fresno. She is part of an interdisciplinary research team investigating child care and welfare reform. She has taught and directed private, public, and non-profit child care centers in Los Angeles and Fresno, directed a children's services agency, taught at the community college and university levels, and worked as a child advocate at the local, state and national levels.