Writing your portfolio proposal will require you to identify your topic, define how your topic relates to your goals and think about the kinds of sources and documents you can use to support your portfolio.

In preparing your portfolio proposal, be sure to follow all of the following assignment criteria:

Your portfolio proposal must be at least two pages long (at least 500 words).

You must type your proposal. You should double-space the text and use a professional font, such as Times Roman or Helvetica. Use a standard font size like a 12-point font.

Remember that this is a formal written assignment. Use appropriate language and edit your writing for style, grammar, and spelling.

Be sure to number all of the pages and give your assignment a clear, descriptive title that distinguishes it from other students’ assignments.

Required Elements

Your portfolio proposal must address the following topics:

Describe the learning experience you will discuss.

This experience may be, but does not need to be, one of the experiences you describe in your assignments for Lesson 2 or 3.

Most students focus on one significant learning experience, but you may choose to discuss as many as three experiences so long as they form a coherent and focused description about your experiential learning.

Be sure to address how your learning experience can be translated into college-level learning.

Describe the relationship to your educational goals.

Provide a brief overview of your educational background, learning experiences, and educational and career goals.

Explain how the learning experience you will focus on is related to your goals.

Sources

Provide a brief description of the kind of sources that you will consult to help you make your case. You can provide details about specific books or journal articles but for the purposes of the proposal you do not need to provide full bibliographic citations.

Documentation

Provide a brief description of the documentation you will provide to support your portfolio. Different from sources, documentation is often made up of primary sources created by or referring to you and can take many forms including journal entries, photographs, transcripts, certificates of completion, letters of recommendation, and so on.

You do not need to provide a full list of documentation at this point, but you should start thinking about the sorts of information that you can provichode to support your portfolio.