# 3
"Portfolios foster responsibility, self-evaluation, and accountability within students-characteristics we all need and use on a daily basis in the "real world."(p.100)

Portfolios are exciting and useful in assisting students and teachers with a chunk of "history" which centers around the student. Portfolios will influence my teaching in a positive factor. There are numerous attributes towards creating portfolios.
I think of them as a students personal treasure chest. Portfolios contain bits and pieces of a students progress which when viewed towards the end of a semester will show development.
Incorporating portfolios into my educational plan is certainly going to aid in the process of teaching students how to write.
The diversity is appealing to me because students will select their own style and different ideas of writing to place in the file.
Some of the selections could be a poetry slam entry, a critique of a book or play, an interview with another student or relative. The creativity is endless and every portfolio is different.