In this course you are required to complete a weekly portfolio. A portfolio provides evidence of previous experience and presents a dynamic record of your growth and professional learning over the duration of this course. Your portfolio provides an account of your learning based on your prior and current learnings and your critical reflection.
A portfolio is increasingly being used in Universities as a means of:
•Being able to tell much more about you than exam results;
•As a means of reflecting your development through the course;
•To reflect your attitude and values as well as your skills and knowledge.
Timmins states that ‘A portfolio is a cohesive account of work based learning that contains relevant evidence from practice and critical reflection on this evidence. Its primary purpose is to ‘display achievement of professional competence or learning outcomes and knowledge development’ (Timmins 2008: p. 115).
You’ll find much more information about the use and application of portfolios on the Internet.  However, it will need you to take some time to think through how you are going to complete the portfolio on a weekly basis.  It is very easy to trivialise the portfolio and write nearly the same thing each week. But that won’t gain you many marks.  Instead you should try to focus on the topic and learning outcome for the week and your reflections regarding them.
Task: Your task is to write a weekly portfolio reflecting upon your learnings from the prior week. In your portfolio you will identify:
1.The learning outcomes and module/topic of the course;
2.A description of your experience, including reading samples or records;
3.Your learning from your experiences;
4.Any supporting documentation of prior or current learning.

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