ABSTRACT

Effective professional development that builds meaningfully on teachers’ classroom experiences should provide teachers opportunities to reflect on their own teaching acts. Teachers who are aware of what they are doing as a teacher, act with the awareness of what they professionally need and transform their practices. A teacher portfolio is an unfolding of teachers’ understandings about their development as a professional. This study aimed to explore four early childhood teachers’ experiences through the teacher portfolio. Case study design was utilized with an inductive approach in order to explore this contemporary topic. Semi-structured interviews, reflective journals, focus group interviews, and teacher portfolios were used as data collection tools. This study provided evidence for the contributions of the teacher portfolio in terms of reflecting on teaching acts, needs assessment and professional development plan, and teacher portfolio as a portrayal of professional growth.

摘要

有效的专业发展以有意义的教师课堂经验为基础，应该为教师提供反思自己的教学行为的机会。意识到自己作为老师的工作的老师会在意识到自己专业需要的基础上采取行动，并改变自己的做法。教师档案袋是教师对专业发展的理解。这项研究旨在通过教师档案袋探索四位幼儿教师的经历。案例研究设计与归纳方法一起使用，以探索这一当代主题。半结构化访谈，反思性期刊，焦点小组访谈和教师档案袋被用作数据收集工具。