Teacher Candidate · Dominican University of California
School of Education · Credential Program · [Expected Year]
Welcome to my teaching portfolio. This is where I've put together the work, reflections, and experiences from my time in the Multiple Subject Credential Program. You'll find lesson plans, fieldwork photos, classroom resources, and the thinking behind how I teach. I hope it gives you a real sense of who I am as a teacher and where I'm headed.
This is where you tell people a bit about yourself. Where you're from, what got you interested in teaching, and what experiences helped you get here.
Write a few sentences about your background here. Talk about your undergrad degree, any work or volunteer stuff that's relevant, and what made you want to become a teacher. Keep it personal.
[Your Bachelor's Degree & University, e.g., B.A. in Liberal Studies, UC Davis, 2022]
[e.g., 2nd-5th Grade; Upper Elementary preference]
[e.g., Math, Science & Project-Based Learning]
[e.g., English (native), Spanish (conversational)]
How I think about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom.
Write your DEI statement here (around 150 to 250 words). Talk about how you plan to make your classroom a place where every student feels seen and supported. What does culturally responsive teaching look like in your practice? How do you address bias in your instruction?
What I believe about learning, teaching, and why education matters.
Write your Philosophy of Education here (around 150 to 250 words). What do you think the purpose of education is? How do kids learn best? What's your role as the teacher? You can mention thinkers who shaped your views, like Vygotsky, Dewey, Ladson-Billings, or Freire.
Before student teaching, I spent time in real classrooms watching experienced teachers at work and starting to try things out on my own. This section covers where I was placed, what I noticed, and what I took away from those hours.
Write a couple sentences about your fieldwork. How many hours did you do? What grade levels? What stuck with you the most?
Add a short reflection on this placement. What stood out? What did you learn?
Add a short reflection on this placement. What stood out? What did you learn?
Add photos from your fieldwork classrooms here. Make sure you have the right permissions from the school before posting any.
Upload your observation logs, reflection journals, lesson plans, or anything else from fieldwork that shows your growth.
Notes from classroom observations, covering instructional strategies, classroom management, and how students were engaged.
Link or embed your observation log here
Written reflections from during and after fieldwork about what I was learning and how I was growing as a teacher.
Link or embed your reflection journal here
Replace this card with an artifact from your fieldwork, like a lesson plan, student work sample, or resource you created.
Describe and link your artifact here
Student teaching was where everything came together. I taught full-time in two different placements at different grade levels, working alongside a cooperating teacher and university supervisor the whole time.
Write a few sentences about your student teaching experience. What grade levels? How long were you there? What challenged you and what are you most proud of?
[Semester & Year] · [Grade Level] · [Subject Areas]
[Full School Name, City, District]
[Name, Credential, Years Teaching]
[Name, Title, Dominican University]
[e.g., 4th Grade · 28 students · 40% ELL · inclusion classroom]
[e.g., Wonders for ELA, Eureka Math, FOSS Science]
Write a few sentences about this placement
A lesson plan from Placement 1, aligned to Common Core, NGSS, or CA State Standards.
Link your lesson plan PDF or Google Doc here
A formative or summative assessment from this placement, with student data or analysis if you have it.
Link your assessment or data summary here
A resource, unit plan, or material you made or put together for this placement.
Describe and link this resource
[Semester & Year] · [Grade Level] · [Subject Areas]
[Full School Name, City, District]
[Name, Credential, Years Teaching]
[Name, Title, Dominican University]
[e.g., 2nd Grade · 22 students · bilingual classroom]
[e.g., Into Reading, Bridges Math, SEPUP Science]
Write a few sentences about this placement
A lesson plan from Placement 2, aligned to standards for this grade level.
Link your lesson plan here
A multi-day unit plan from Placement 2 that shows how I planned across several lessons.
Link your unit plan here
A reflection on what I learned, what was hard, and what I want to keep working on after Placement 2.
Link or write your reflection here
Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration. These four skills show up in almost everything I plan. This section shows how I've built them into my lessons, projects, and the way my classroom runs day to day.
Write your own intro here (a couple sentences). Why do these skills matter to you? How have you worked them into your teaching?
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education."Martin Luther King Jr. (swap in a quote that means something to you)
Teaching students to look at problems carefully, ask good questions, back up their thinking with evidence, and not just accept things at face value.
Giving students room to come up with their own ideas through open-ended projects, art, and chances to make choices about their learning.
Helping students get better at speaking, writing, and sharing ideas so they can express themselves clearly no matter the audience or format.
Setting up group work so students actually depend on each other, listen to different viewpoints, and learn how to work as a team.
This is one lesson or unit where all four Cs came together. Write about the grade level, what subject it covered, and how students used each of the skills during the activity.
Link to your lesson plan, photos, or video here
Write about how you've gotten better at teaching these skills (150 to 200 words or so). Which of the 4 Cs feels most natural to you? Which one is hardest? How has your approach changed over time, and what do you want to improve next?
These are some of the teaching resources I've collected and created for K through 8 classrooms. Anchor charts, hands-on activities, graphic organizers, digital tools, and more, organized by subject area.
Write your own intro here (a couple sentences). What kinds of resources do you like using? How do you pick or make your materials?
Add your favorite math resource here. Could be a number talk routine, a math game, anchor chart templates, or a problem-solving activity.
A reading or writing resource like a guided reading chart, writing process anchor chart, vocabulary strategies, or mentor text collection.
A hands-on science resource tied to NGSS. Maybe a phenomena-based lesson, a science notebook template, or a lab safety guide.
A social studies resource tied to California history, geography, economics, or civics. Could be a timeline activity, primary source analysis, or community study.
An arts-integrated lesson or resource. Think visual arts, music, drama, or dance connected to academic content to help students understand it better.
A digital tool, app, or website you actually use in the classroom. Seesaw, Khan Academy, Desmos, Nearpod, or whatever works for you.
A writing workshop tool like notebook prompts, a revision checklist, peer editing protocol, or genre-specific writing frames.
A social-emotional learning tool like morning meeting activities, community agreements, conflict resolution protocols, or a classroom jobs system.
Keep adding cards for your favorite teaching resources. Try to have 8 to 12 total across subjects.