Innovation at Dalat #2 Portfolios

Portfolios are simple in concept. They give students a digital platform to record, save, and organize important information about themselves. They are an important “digital locker” to use for sharing when applying to universities that can help students record all of their achievements. This includes information such as service hours, awards, leadership experience, and extracurricular involvement. Students will use their portfolios to record growth in our Student Outcome Statements in the areas of Leadership, Scholarship, Discipleship and Citizenship. And they will be challenged to record important academic classroom work that demonstrates growth.

The Dalat Student Portfolio is actually a notebook in the Microsoft program “OneNote”. The framework for the notebook and all of the sections and pages has been organized by a team of HS teacher leaders with the key pieces that will continue to be optimized and developed. Over the next few semesters, both students and teachers will be learning how to use their portfolios to capture information. We will be sharing the value of this tool through our guidance department and teaching students ways to make the most of this space.

Below is a snapshot of the front page of a student Portfolio. If you would like more information talk with Mr. Dobson in the guidance office as he will be giving students leadership in this area. So far these only have been shared with students in the current freshman class. The rest of the HS will gain access to their portfolios over the semester with guidance on best practices to use them. Ask your student to show you around their portfolio and imagine the ways it could be useful.