> the portfolio is students' work.  This can be done
 > with the parents' permission and the students' names
 > will have to be covered over.
It seems to me that wouldn't be too important with work from 1st graders, who 
only put their first name on their paper anyway....but Matt will probably 
know more about that than I.
 > However, it is good that you mentioned this.  Some
 > districts have been accepting video portfolios, again
 > more care is needed in that area.
In many areas, they want to see a teacher teach a sample lesson. This can be 
done either in person (taught for teachers or volunteer students), substitute 
work, or a video. I personally think that a video, taken when a teacher is 
teaching her own class, is a better show. A class taught to volunteer adults 
or students would be for lesson content only (not showing, necessarily, how 
teacher would react to real student misbehaviors unless the student is 
prompted ahead of time to pull a fast-one), substituting does not show the 
rapport that it takes time to build in ones' regular class, but a video shows 
both.
                                 -donna
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