Student Portfolio Workshop
Student Portfolio Samples: Ninth Grade,  Twelfth Grade

Portfolios are “visual résumés.” Students and parents select items that showcase documentation of the students’ in-school and out-of-school achievements in these key areas:

• Academic Skills
• Teamwork Skills
• Personal Management Skills
• Work Experience
• Other Interests

Portfolios demonstrate students' progress toward meeting their educational, career, and personal goals.

Portfolios build students' self-esteem by highlighting individual accomplishments that promote them.

Portfolios aid the students when applying for jobs and college placement/scholarships.

Academic Skills

• Tests, essays or research projects
• Report cards or transcripts
• List of computer software used and sample of each
• Bibliography of books read

Teamwork Skills

• Photographs, reports or evaluations of group projects in school
• Recognition of membership in clubs or groups
• Participation in team-building events (e.g. Ropes Course)
• Documents from on-the-job training or internship

Personal Management Skills

• Career plans
• Record of school or employment attendance
• Ledger showing payments made toward a debt (e.g. car payment)
• Awards or records of community service
• Pages from a personal planner with practice times or work hours designated

Work Experience (Paid and Non-Paid)

• Letters of recommendation from employers
• Pictures while on the job and a description of tasks performed and skills gained
• Awards or certificates (e.g. Employee of the Month)
• Volunteer activities with lists of tasks and skills gained (e.g. Library Volunteer, Church Usher)

Other Interests

• Fitness
• Scouts
• 4-H
• Theater
• Family Travel
• Non-School Sports (e.g. Scuba Diving, Cross-country Skiing, etc.)
• Dance
• Volunteer Activities