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Abstract
This article examines 14 teacher educators’ development of standards-based electronic portfolios. The research focused on the participants' interpretation of the standards and how they conceptualized the portfolio development process in relation to their professional practice. For one year, participants interacted around the Association of Teacher Educator (ATE) standards and the development of their electronic portfolios. Findings illustrated that these teacher educators developed their porfolios in individual ways within a community of practice. Yet, they differed in how they viewed the structure of the process. The process of creating the electronic portfolio encouraged reflection on the standards and on how they think about having their students create portfolios.
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Cari Klecka
Dr. Cari L. Klecka is an assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She teaches courses in research on teaching and schooling and coordinates a graduate program in teacher leadership. Her primary research interests include facets of professional identity, forms of teacher leadership, and development of communities designed to support teacher education. Dr. Klecka is an active member in the Association of Teacher Educators and currently serves on the Commission on the Assessment of the Teacher Educator Standards.
Loretta Donovan
Dr. Loretta Donovan is an assistant professor of educational technology in the department of Elementary and Bilingual Education at California State University, Fullerton. She teaches courses in effective technology integration and is the leader of a technology-rich cohort of preservice teacher candidates. Her current research interests include effective technology integration in teaching and teacher education and ubiquitous computing.
Robert L. Fisher
Dr. Robert L. Fisher is Professor Emeritus at Illinois State University. He has been a member of the Association of Teacher Educators' Commissions that worked on development of the Teacher Educator Standards and is currently chairperson of that commission. His most recent interests are the support of beginning teachers, particularly as they are prepared to work in the urban environment.