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The School Counseling Portfolio
The Culminating Professional Portfolio
During the second semester of your second year students develop a Culminating Professional Portfolio to represent their vision of service delivery and to reflect their development in seven areas of competence. The portfolio serves as the comprehensive examination for the Master’s degree (in lieu of a thesis). The portfolio is the written means by which students present to the university supervisors, for evaluation, their work as a beginning or emerging school counselor. It is a tool used to give accurate representation of the student’s professional practice in the process of seeking accreditation for a PPS Credential. It is also designed to provide especially useful and helpful documentation for preparing students for future professional pursuits, such as job seeking or applications to doctoral programs. T he Portfolio should be developed in a hardcover, loose-leaf binder and organized with tabbed dividers to reflect the following required sections:
- Your current full vita (see Vita Development).
- Summary of Fieldwork Document (SFD).
- Activity logs of student work
- CBEST
- Internship Supervisor's Evaluations
- Certificate Coverage Document
- Grade Sheet
- Annotated Samples of Your Best Work: A minimum of five and a maximum of six of your best work samples; at least four of which must be from the culminating internship year (others may be selected from your Archival Binders, see below); documenting competencies in each of the seven areas of competence. Each work sample should have its own divider and will be annotated with a description of your rationale for including these samples as the best examples of your competencies and identifying the competency areas demonstrated. Appropriate work samples include:
• Direct Intervention Reports/Documentation, e.g., counseling plan/summary, individual mediation report
• Reports of Indirect Reports/Documentation, e.g., consultation summary, behavior intervention plan, 504 plans, professional development programs, community networking, parent involvement.
• Assessment Reports, e.g., assessment pursuant to SST, ecological assessment, dynamic assessment, assessment that informs consultation/intervention.
• Research and Program Evaluation Reports, e.g., evaluation of effectiveness of your services, research papers, grant proposals, publications,
• Other Innovations (optional) - whatever doesn't fit above, e.g., videotaped presentation, copy of your TV/radio show, technological products, or a second sample of something that would fit in a category above.
This Portfolio is essential to (1) the development of self-evaluation skills, (2) the documentation of acquired competencies, (3) an understanding of the continuous nature of development in all competency areas, and (4) the articulation of your model of service delivery for diverse schools.