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Digital Pedagogy Licence: digital portfolio

A digital portfolio is an organised and annotated set of documents or examples that provide evidence of a teacher's values, relationships, knowledge and practices in the complex craft of teaching.

It is a collection of carefully selected or composed professional experience, thoughts and goals that are threaded with reflection, evidence and self assessment. The portfolio is authentic evidence of the depth of your work.

The digital portfolio you construct for Digital Pedagogy Licence accreditation should clearly demonstrate that your pedagogy aligns with the Digital Pedagogy Licence indicators.

Creating your portfolio

All Digital Pedagogy Licence portfolios must include the following:

• context statement
• belief statement
• items
• evidence
• statement of support.

Context statement
The purpose of the context statement is to provide the reviewers of your portfolio with an understanding of your teaching context.

Your context statement should detail:

• your name and contact details
• your school's location and demographics
• an explanation of your current role
• your teaching context - including information about the students you work with and the digital resources (including access) available to you at school.

Belief statement
The belief statement is a concise, personal articulation (about 500 words) that outlines what you believe about learning, your role as a teacher in the learning process and the place of digital technologies in teaching and learning.

Your belief statement should be a reflection of your professional knowledge. As beliefs underpin actions, your reflective statement forms the foundation of your portfolio and what you write about should be clearly reflected in your practice and, therefore, in your portfolio items.

You may choose to describe your beliefs by drawing on key education documents, learning theories and policy.

Your belief statement must address the following four areas:

• learning - what do you believe about the process of learning?
• teaching - based on your beliefs about learning, what do you believe about the role of a teacher in the learning process?
• digital technologies - what do you believe about the role of digital technologies in learning and teaching?
• practice - how are your beliefs reflected in your practice?

Items
An item is a learning experience that you document to demonstrate your pedagogy aligns with the Digital Pedagogy Licence indicators. All learning experiences you include as portfolio items must be current; you need to have implemented them within the previous two years from the portfolio review date.

Document your items using the following mandatory headings:

• title
• date of implementation
• evidence
• year level and student context
• item overview
• reason for inclusion
• development and planning
• curriculum links
• central focus of the student learning (curriculum intent)
• sequence of learning
• teaching and learning approach
• my learnings
• further reflections and information.

Evidence
In this section you need to verify your portfolio items through student work, unit plans, criteria sheets, photographs, lesson outlines, screen captures, websites and audio or video files. The evidence you include in your portfolio is essential for the reviewers to see that what you said happened in the items did happen and to help them to see the full picture of your practice.

It is important to be aware of the size of data files that you provide as evidence. To avoid the costs and time associated in downloading large files only include relevant snippets of video and audio files if using these mediums for evidence.
Be sure to request and include any generic usernames and passwords for project rooms (and course codes for virtual classrooms) if including activities within these as evidence.

Statement of support
Finally, you need to include a statement of support from your principal or line manager. The statement must endorse that your portfolio items are reflective of your typical practice and are not one-off examples. Therefore, the person providing this statement should have viewed your portfolio. The information contained in the statement may also support demonstration of the Professional Relationships and Professional Values indicators of the Digital Pedagogy Licence.

The statement of support must be on school letterhead, signed by the principal or line manager and scanned in as a digital file (jpeg or PDF) in the portfolio. Include the contact details for your principal or line manager in case the portfolio reviewers wish to contact them.

Portfolio format
Submit your portfolio as either:

• a website (20MB of webspace is available to you through MIS); or
• a virtual classroom, using the Blackboard learning management system through the Learning Place.

If you are submitting as a website, this should be attached to your school MIS website and not at any external servers or ISPs.

If you are submitting your portfolio as a virtual classroom:

• ensure individual file uploads do not exceed 2MB (reviewers do not need to see a whole video to ascertain its purpose; a short segment in most cases will suffice)
• ensure your whole portfolio does not exceed 20MB
• name your virtual classroom clearly so reviewers will be able to easily identify your portfolio (for example, LastName FirstName - Licence - Portfolio)

Advice on creating webpages using Microsoft Word (new window) 1.6M and creating personal websites through the MIS (new window) 1020k is available.

It is important that your portfolio and all of its items can be viewed easily. Do not provide files which require software that is not provided within the Managed Operating Environment to view.

Consent and copyright considerations

Students in Queensland state schools should have a consent form that is signed by the parent/guardian and stored at the school to cover the use of copyright material, image, recording or name as part of normal school and classroom activity. The use of the Learning Place is seen as an extension of normal classroom activity and is covered within this general consent form.

The consent form also covers student work and activity that is displayed in a teacher's portfolio that is hosted in a virtual classroom at the Learning Place, provided the virtual classroom is password protected and is only accessed by the relevant teacher/s and reviewers.

If a portfolio is hosted as a website, it is the responsibility of the teacher submitting it that all content of the portfolio is compliant with relevant Education Queensland policies. For website publishing, consent forms by themselves may not be sufficient, and consent schedules are required for:

• people appearing in any photographs or videos
• all student work samples
• other teachers' names and materials
• external third-party copyright material (such as quotes and images)
• music or other recordings
• clipart.

Signed consent forms and schedules are the responsibility of the teacher submitting the portfolio and must be stored at the teacher's school (e.g., in the relevant student files). They are not required to be sent with the portfolio.

Mandatory headings

Title
Give the item a name. This could be the name of the unit, task or learning experience.

Date of implementation
Include details about when this item was implemented and its duration (e.g. First 5 weeks of Term 2). Remember that items must have been implemented within two years from the date of portfolio review.

Evidence
List the evidence included in your portfolio which supports the item you are describing.

Year level and student context
What is the context surrounding this item? Include information about the year level and composition of the student group. It is also relevant to explain how this item addresses students' developmental needs and educational goals.

Item overview
What is this item about? Give a broad overview of what took place. This is not the place for a step by step account of the learning episodes.

Reason for inclusion
Why is this in your portfolio? Explain why you have chosen to include this particular item in your portfolio as an example of your best practice with digital pedagogy. Draw attention to the aspects of the framework that this item demonstrates.

Development and planning
How was this learning task developed and planned? Was it planned individually, collaboratively with colleagues or was it an existing task adapted by you?

Ensure that you acknowledge everyone involved with the development of any of the tasks and be specific as to which aspects you personally enacted.

If you have worked with a partner teacher who is also submitting the same item, you must ensure that you use your own words and not submit exactly the same writing even if it was collaboratively developed and enacted.

Include if the item was planned in response to identified student needs and/or interests.

Curriculum links
Give details about this task's links to the curriculum. This includes, but is not limited to, referencing syllabus documents. If you are including evidence in the portfolio with this information already in it, then it is okay to point the reviewers in that direction.

Also if applicable, include the item's connection to overarching school policy and planning documents (e.g. literacy and numeracy plans, curriculum framework etc).

Central focus of the student learning (curriculum intent)
What was the central focus of the student learning? What were the deep understandings and/or ways of working?

Sequence of learning
Detail the sequence of learning experiences the students engaged in, from commencement of the learning experience through to assessment.

Teaching and learning
What teaching and learning approaches were used and why. You may consider how this aligns with your Belief Statement and/or how this item demonstrates digital pedagogy.

My learnings
What did you learn from planning and implementing this item? What would you do differently next time? This may include reference to any learning goals you had set and professional development you sought. Learning goals for the future can be acknowledged here too.

Further reflections and information
This section is a chance for you to add any extra information that you feel is necessary but doesn't fit into any of the prior headings.