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A Portfolio Primer explains how any teacher can build a community of writers, using portfolios to demonstrate progress across the curriculum. Intended for teachers of grades three through twelve, the book outlines practical strategies for ensuring that students explore meaningful challenges and develop essential speaking skills.

Author Geof Hewitt chairs Vermont's Writing Assessment Leadership Committee, which designed the nation's first statewide portfolio-based writing assessment program. Recognizing the new national emphasis on assessing students' learning, he explores a range of uses for portfolios that complement formal assessment programs for all subjects. Key to the success of a classroom program is the students' regular use of their portfolios and the ongoing activity of reflecting on, and editing, their selections.

Hewitt suggests the kinds of work that should go into a student's portfolio. In a step-by-step review of "the writing process," he explains how to guide students in developing their own processes and argues that "the process" should be reserved for only those pieces toward which the student feels substantial commitment.

A Portfolio Primer provides generous samples of student work, including two portfolios reprinted in their entirety, as well as a variety of tools for formal and informal assessments. The book also offers practical suggestions for ensuring ownership so that students can control and witness their own development in the classroom.

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• A Practical History of Vermont's Portfolio-Based
• Statewide Writing Assessment Program Music and White Noise
• Portfolios and the Writing Process Teacher Experimentation, the Writer's Attitude, and Student Ownership Creating and Using Portfolios Steven's and Abbie's Portfolios Developing and Teaching to Specific Criteria
• The Politics of Large-Scale Assessment Portfolios
• Goal-Setting, and Self-Assessment How Soon Reliability? (A Little Jab at the Statisticians)
• The Future of Portfolio-Based Writing
• Appendixes
• A A Glossary of Terms Used in This Book
• B A Glossary of Writing Techniques
• C Obvious Principles for Large-Scale Portfolio-Based Writing

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Hewitt uses many examples from his own students to demonstrate both the development and usefulness of writing portfolios. Although many of the examples are pertinent to lower grades, beginning with third grade and going through 12th, the care with which samples were selected insures that the use of examples is generalizable. Hewitt's experience comes from classroom teaching as well as his work as consultant for the Vermont Department of Education/Writing Assessment Leadership Committee. Especially useful are the guidelines and rubrics for portfolio evaluation, including stages of portfolio growth and the Vermont Writing Assessment Worksheet. These assessment tools can be useful not only for evaluating writing portfolios but also for portfolios for other purposes, including the teaching portfolio. Hewitt acknowledges that issues of reliability and efficiency often mean that portfolios, if used at all, become standardized and routinized: they all tend to look the same. Since this defies the purpose of the portfolio as demonstrative of an individual student's unique growth and reflection, Hewitt resolves the dilemma by suggesting a "master portfolio" and an "assessment portfolio." This one example along with many others corroborates Hewitt's commonsense, practical approach. Upper-division undergraduate through graduate; professional. B. L. Nourie; Illinois State University

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Geof Hewitt started writing poems as a teenager. Ten years later, he was teaching teenagers and publishing their poems, while publishing and performing his own work in venues as diverse as Harpers, The Paris Review, Exquisite Corpse, the Whitney Museum, and the Honolulu Zoo. Hewitt brings his quirky sense of "poetry" to his workshops with junior high and high school students, and continues to write, publish, and perform his poems wherever he can. Hewitt teaches in the Adult Degree Program at Vermont College and serves as Writing/Secondary English Consultant to the Vermont Department of Education. In 1995, Heinemann published his first book for teachers, A Portfolio Primer: Teaching, Collecting, and Assessing Student Writing.