Syllabus

Master of Science in Education

EDU 695: Portfolio – Spring A 2016

Credits - 3

Description

This course develops reflective practices that assist participants to explore both professional and personal growth that has occurred throughout the University of New England’s MSE program. Participants will learn organizational tools that help formalize their working portfolios to a final presentation e-portfolio that reflects self-directed learning within their program experiences. The work submitted throughout this course will be graduate-level work; using American Psychological Association (APA) formatting for organization, language, and citations.

Materials

No text is required for EDU 695

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

For each course in this program there are overall program goals. Below is a chart of how the overall program goals match the key assessments for this course. In addition, in each module there are smaller learning objectives. These will be specified at the beginning of each week’s introduction along with how these match the broader program goals.

Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course teachers will be able to….	INTASC Standards	ISLC	Department Mission	Course Assessment
Analyze their own professional growth evident in a selection of artifacts with accompanying rationales and reflections	Standards 9, 10	ISLLC Standard 2	Competent Demonstration Rigorous Mind	Assignments: 3,4,5 Discussions: 3, 4 Final Portfolio
Examine and reflect on their sense of accomplishment aligned to completing their MSE program and what they learned in it	Standards 1, 7, 9, 10	ISLLC Standard 1	Reflective Stance Competent Demonstration	Portfolio Final reflection – Part 3
Enhance their technical skills by completing a web-based portfolio to a required presentation standard.	Standards 4, 6, 9	ISLLC Standard 1	Competent Demonstration	Assignments: 1,3,4 Discussions: 5 Final Portfolio
Align their portfolios around a set of national teaching standards or educational leadership standards and articulate the value of doing so.	Standards 1, 6, 7	ISLLC Standard 1	Rigorous Mind Reflective Stance	Assignments: 3,4 Discussions: 3, 4 Final Portfolio
Create appropriately presented components of a professional portfolio, including a resume, statements of their educational philosophy and mission, and professional introduction, personal background, and table of contents pages.	Standards 4, 6	ISLLC Standard 1	Competent Demonstration Reflective Stance	Assignment: 5 Discussion: 5 Final Portfolio
Analyze their own professional growth evident in a selection of artifacts with accompanying rationales and reflections.	Standards 6, 7, 8, 9	ISLLC Standard 2	Rigorous Mind Reflective Stance	Assignments: 3,4 Discussion: 6
Examine and reflect on their sense of accomplishment aligned to completing their MSE program and what they learned in it	Standards 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10	ISLLC Standard 1	Rigorous Mind Compassionate Heart Competent Demonstration	Assignment: 7 Final Portfolio Reflection (part 3)

Assignments

Weekly Threaded Discussions: Post a primary response to a question or task. You will also respond to classmates with a secondary posting.

Written Assignments (Weeks 3, 4, 5 and 7): You will submit short written assignments that will help you to prepare items for your ePortfolio.

ePortfolio (three submissions of components and then the final portfolio)

Part One
- Introduction and Background Information (personalize yourself)
- An introductory statement to include your teaching and /or leadership assignments
- A table of contents page that is electronically linked to all the pages it references
Your resume
Your Mission Statement & Educational Philosophy
Part Two
- Five or more artifacts aligned to the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, NBPTS, or the Interstate Schools Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards, ISLLC
- A rationale for why each artifact was developed and why it is selected to illustrate exemplary practice aligned to one or more National Standards.
- A reflective statement, analyzing meaningfulness of each artifact in practice.
Part Three
- Reflective Discourse final essay

Grading Policy

Your grade in this course will be determined by the following criteria:

Grade Breakdown

Assignment	Point Valuesn100 Point Total
Discussion Board for Week 1	5 Points
Discussion Board for Weeks 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6	15 points (3 points each)
Assignments for Weeks 3, 4, 5, and 7	24 points (6 points each)
Final ePortfolio	56 Points

Grade Scale

Grade	Points Grade	Point Average (GPA)
A	94 – 100%	4.00
A-	90 – 93%	3.75
B+	87 – 89%	3.50
B	84 – 86%	3.00
B-	80 – 83%	2.75
C+	77 – 79%	2.50
C	74 – 76%	2.00
C-	70 – 73%	1.75
D	64 – 69%	1.00
F	00 – 63%	0.00

Schedule

This is only a tentative schedule and is meant to give you a bird’s eye view. The activities and assignments may change at the discretion of the instructor.

Week 1:	Readings Discussion posting with Resume attachment Week 1 Assignment A – select 5 artifacts Week 1 Assignment B – explore platform sites	Due: Jan. 10 at 11:55 pm. EST
Week 2:	Readings Discussion posting Week 2 Assignment-make preliminary flow chart to align artifacts	Due: Ja. 17 at 11:55 pm. EST
Week 3:	Readings Discussion posting Week 3 Assignment-submit web site with 2 artifacts supported by rationales and reflections	Due: Jan. 24 at 11:55 pm. EST
Week 4:	Readings Discussion posting Week 4 Assignment -submit web site with 2 additional artifacts supported by rationales and reflections	Due: Jan. 31 at 11:55 pm. EST
Week 5:	Readings Discussion posting Week 5 Assignment – submit website with Portfolio Part 1 components	Due: Feb. 7 at 11:55 pm. EST
Week 6:	Readings Discussion posting Week 6 Assignment – work on video production and Part 3 reflective essay	Due: Feb. 14 at 11:55 pm. EST
Week 7:	Readings Week 7 Assignment	Due: Feb. 21 11:55 pm. EST
Week 8:	Submit Final ePortfolio	Due: THURSDAY, Feb. 25 at 11:55 pm. EST

Student Resources

The following web authoring sites are recommended for review:

www.wix.com

www.weebly.com

http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

Online Student Support

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Accommodations

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Career Ready Program

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Policies

AI Use

The Graduate Programs in Education holds the position that Grammarly and other AI writing and generative technology should not be used when completing course assignments, unless explicitly permitted by course faculty and assignment instructions. These tools do not support a student’s personal and direct capacity to develop and hone skills in creativity, logic, critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, theorization, and writing, which are central to graduate-level rigor, assessment, and research. Use of these tools when not explicitly permitted may result in an academic integrity infraction.

Turnitin Originality Check and Plagiarism Detection Tool

The College of Professional Studies uses Turnitin to help deter plagiarism and to foster the proper attribution of sources. Turnitin provides comparative reports for submitted assignments that reflect similarities in other written works. This can include, but is not limited to, previously submitted assignments, internet articles, research journals, and academic databases.

Make sure to cite your sources appropriately as well as use your own words in synthesizing information from published literature. Webinars and workshops, included early in your coursework, will help guide best practices in APA citation and academic writing.

You can learn more about Turnitin in the guide on how to navigate your Similarity Report.

Technology Requirements

Please review the technical requirements for UNE Online Graduate Programs: Technical Requirements

Course Evaluation Policy

Course surveys are one of the most important tools the University of New England uses for evaluating the quality of your education, and for providing meaningful feedback to instructors on their teaching. In order to assure that the feedback is both comprehensive and precise, we need to receive it from each student for each course. Evaluation access is distributed via UNE email at the beginning of the last week of the course.

Late Policy

Assignments: Late assignments will be accepted up to 3 days late; however, there is a 10% grade reduction (from the total points) for the late submission. After three days the assignment will not be accepted.

Discussion posts: If the initial post is submitted late, but still within the discussion board week, there will be a 10% grade reduction from the total discussion grade (e.g., a 3 point discussion will be reduced by 0.3 points). Any posts submitted after the end of the Discussion Board week will not be graded.

Please make every effort ahead of time to contact your instructor and your student support specialist if you are not able to meet an assignment deadline. Arrangements for extenuating circumstances may be considered by faculty.

Attendance Policy

8 week: Students taking online graduate courses through the College of Professional Studies will be administratively dropped for non-participation if a graded assignment/discussion post is not submitted before Sunday at 11:59 pm ET of the first week of the term. Reinstatement is at the purview of the Dean's Office.

16 week: Students taking online graduate courses through the College of Professional Studies will be administratively dropped for non-participation if a graded assignment/discussion post is not submitted before Friday at 11:59 pm ET of the second week of the term. Reinstatement is at the purview of the Dean's Office.

Student Handbook Online - Policies and Procedures

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UNE Online Student Handbook

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Academic Integrity

The University of New England values academic integrity in all aspects of the educational experience. Academic dishonesty in any form undermines this standard and devalues the original contributions of others. It is the responsibility of all members of the University community to actively uphold the integrity of the academy; failure to act, for any reason, is not acceptable. For information about plagiarism and academic misconduct, please visit UNE Plagiarism Policies.

Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to the following:

Cheating, copying, or the offering or receiving of unauthorized assistance or information.
Fabrication or falsification of data, results, or sources for papers or reports.
Action which destroys or alters the work of another student.
Multiple submissions of the same paper or report for assignments in more than one course without permission of each instructor.
Plagiarism, the appropriation of records, research, materials, ideas, or the language of other persons or writers and the submission of them as one's own.

Charges of academic dishonesty will be reviewed by the Program Director. Penalties for students found responsible for violations may depend upon the seriousness and circumstances of the violation, the degree of premeditation involved, and/or the student’s previous record of violations. Appeal of a decision may be made to the Dean whose decision will be final. Student appeals will take place through the grievance process outlined in the student handbook.