Capstone English Language Learners Portfolio

Abstract

This English Language Learners portfolio demonstrates the in-depth professional knowledge that I have learned from my two years of study in the English Language Learners program at the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Synthesizing with what I have learned through coursework, student teaching experience, fieldtrips, and classroom observations, I present my own interpretation and understanding of teaching English as a foreign language. This portfolio consists of three sections: 1) Philosophy of Teaching, 2) TESOL Standards, and 3) Implications, Challenges, and New Directions. In the first section of the portfolio, I discuss the overarching teaching philosophy that forms my teaching style. In the second section of the portfolio, I list the eight domains of the TESOL Standards: (1) Planning, (2) Instructing, (3) Assessing, (4) Identity and Context, (5) Language Proficiency, (6) Learning, (7) Content, and (8) Commitment and Professionalism. I then provide artifacts as examples to reflect my mastery in these standards by specifically focusing on learners and learning, learning environment, curriculum, and assessment. Finally, in the third section of the portfolio, I discuss the goals that I plan to achieve in my future practice, identify the challenges that I may encounter and suggest the ways of tackling them, and outline the direction for my continual professional development