Portfolio
Our students develop interpersonal, public speaking, and academic skills through the Portfolio Assessment Program—a system of self-assessment, goal-setting, and accountability.
Building a Portfolio is a year-long process that reinforces the study habits that lead to academic excellence. All students:
- Set personal goals for academic and civic achievement and hold themselves responsible for living up to high expectations.
- Compile a record of academic work, behavioral performance, and community service and prepare special academic projects for inclusion in their portfolios. Under teacher supervision, they use established rubrics to measure, analyze, and reflect upon their performance throughout the school year.
- Give a formal presentation of their Portfolio before a panel, providing details about their academic progress and examining personal growth through goal setting.
Portfiolio Rubrics
Visit this link to access all the rubrics used to grade student Portfolios (google drive): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WO8qamxSYhug8eVkFnZnNAtSsHumOU2y?usp=sharing
An exercise in public speaking, portfolio presentations demonstrate students’ rhetorical fluency and the ability to think on their feet, helping to fulfill the school’s goal to equip students with the skills they need to advocate for themselves and their communities.
As students advance through their careers at Thurgood Marshall Academy, Portfolio becomes a chart of each student’s intellectual growth, self-discipline, and character development. Academic projects become increasingly complex as students’ skills grow more sophisticated and their interests more varied.
Alumni consistently cite the study habits, sense of accountability, and ability to self-start and work consistently on long-term projects learned in portfolio as among the most valuable of the school’s programs. Students receive .25 credits for each portfolio presentation completed with a passing grade.
For more information, please contact Ms. Christina Camps at ccamps@tmapchs.org.