Your Portfolio

A portfolio is a demonstration of your commitment to your own education and progress. It should include only your best efforts.

Your portfolio can be a College Portfolio (or for helping you to get into any further education). It should also be a Job Portfolio that you could bring to a job application or interview. Unless there are exceptional circumstances your portfolio should not include anything you would not want a future school or employer to see.

Suggested Portfolio Items

(a resume is required before you can start a portfolio at Charboneau)

	Portfolio Category	Comment
	Art/Design Work	Use photographs to show artwork that will not fit into a binder.
	Article
	Audio Recording	A cassette tape or CD might go in the portfolio, or you could just include a written description
	Autobiography	Keep it brief. Keep it positive. (You can show how you overcame adversity) Use paragraphs.
	Book/Booklet
	Brochure
	Chart/Graph
	Cover Letter
	Database	Sample pages and reports along with a disk or CD.
	Essay	These kinds of writing are very important for a college portfolio.
b	Form: Job Application	Essential for a Job Portfolio.
	Form: Other
	Letter to Editor	This is an example of "published work". You could have your typed version plus a clipping from the newspaper.
	Math Demonstration	This does not have to be typed, but it has to be very neat and clearly worked out.
	Notes/Study Notes	These should be typed. Suggestion: use a color print out.
	Petition
	Poem/Poetry
	Political/Advocacy/Lobbying Letter	These are excellent for college portfolios.
	Poster/Flier
	Power Point Presentation	Thumbnails of the whole presentation and a few full size slides on paper with maybe the whole file saved on a disk or CD
b	Reference List	Essential for a Job Portfolio
	Report	Recommended for a College Portfolio
b	Resume	Essential for a Job Portfolio
	Speech/Presentation
	Spreadsheet
	Story/Short Story
	Test/Quiz
	Thoughts/Reflections	Typed and well formatted
	Video Recording	Might be represented by some photographs and a written description
	Vignette/Prose poem
	Web page/website
	Worksheet/Study Activity	These can be handwritten as long as they are very neat and completely correct.
	Photographs	Photographs can show your camera/developing skills OR portray work that will not fit in a binder.
	Disk or CD	As long as it only contains work you would show to a school, college, or employer.