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Guidance and Counselling: Student Portfolios
Manitoba school counsellors can play an important role on the school team in the development of student portfolios. Formats for portfolios used in educational environments can vary widely and the applications overlap. The major use of portfolios in educational environments is in the areas of assessment of learning and school to-work transition.
Teachers use assessment portfolios to integrate assessment with instruction, to provide a focus for teacher-student collaboration, to obtain concrete evidence for evaluation of learning, to give feedback on individual student performance and to provide evidence to support reports to parents.
Students use assessment portfolios for developing learning objectives and tracking learning outcomes, for recording the results of their own self-assessment activities, for compiling concrete evidence of their learning outcomes.
All portfolios used in educational environments can be used to facilitate a student's transition to the world of work or to further learning. Portfolios used in a classroom setting generally include some career exploration and decision-making activities. At the high school level, job search elements are added in addition to other career management activities such as networking and labour market research and educational planning. The use of the employability skills framework from the Conference Board of Canada allows a portfolio program to link classroom activities to employability skill development and focuses on assisting students making a smooth transition to the world of work.