[MUSIC] Hello and welcome back to Teach English Now. First of all, I'd like to say congratulations. You've come such a long way since you began this course. You've watch a lot of videos, gained insight into English language teaching, and developed your own lesson plans and teaching style. Now, it's time for you to compile your greatest works into a portfolio for review by experts at ASU. I wanted to take some time to talk about the purpose of the portfolio, what it should include, and how to submit it. So first, you maybe asking yourself, well, why do I even need to create a teaching portfolio? So, let me explain the ways that a teaching portfolio can benefit you. First, these portfolios are helpful for this course's grading purposes. Second, portfolios are a helpful professional organizational tool. The third reason, is for your potential employers, who may ask you to submit some artifacts of your work. Such as lesson plans, teaching videos, or even self-created activities, when you're applying for new jobs. The final reason focuses on your teaching videos. While teaching videos are an excellent resource to provide for job applications, they're also a powerful resource for your own reflection and improvement. To find out more details about each reason, please refer to the reading after this video. Now that you understand the importance of creating and maintaining a teaching portfolio, it's time to assemble all the pieces. For your teaching portfolio, you'll need to include the following items. Your teaching philosophy, ten complete lesson plans, and ten links to micro teaching videos that correspond to each of your lesson plans, and finally, two toolbox activities. And so, after you've assembled all of your items, go back through them and see if you want to update or edit any of them with information or techniques that you've learned since the creation of that document or video. Once you feel like each document and video are ready, please upload them to an online shareable platform. Please keep in mind that if you posted your videos to YouTube.com, or another video sharing website, please copy and paste the link to your video on the same page as the corresponding lesson plan. Just be sure to mark Teaching Video link clearly wherever you decide to embed the link. Finally, we'd like to share some examples of websites or platforms that you can use for your online portfolio. A few of these websites are DropBox, Google Drive, Google Sites, Wix, Weebly, Strikingly and WordPress. Feel free to explore them all, and other websites, to find out which best suits your needs. So, once you've chosen a platform, uploaded all the items required in the portfolio, you'll need to submit one link to your teaching portfolio for the other students to peer review. Finally, I'd like to discuss how to organize your portfolio. To make it easier for your peers to review, please be sure to include the title of each of your items. So refer to reading three for the proper title names that we're requiring for the items in your portfolio. Please be sure that you've embedded the link to the corresponding micro teaching video in a clearly labelled place on each lesson plan. After your portfolio passes the peer review in module five, you'll submit your portfolio for expert review in module six. Well, that's about it. Please review the next readings carefully, as they provide clear instructions regarding your portfolio before you go on to the peer review section. So good luck to you as you're putting your work together for your final teaching portfolio. See you later. [MUSIC]
