Running head: PDQP PROGRESS REPORT

PDQP Progress Report

Collette Sanchez
National University

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Abstract

This paper outlines my progress so far in developing my Professional Development Quest

Portfolio or PDQP. I have worked on my PDQP for the last three weeks implementing the
Teacher Performance Expectations or TPEs (2013) as mandated by the California Commission
On Teacher Credentialing and providing evidence of quality artifacts (student work, learning
plans, etc.) that show competency in each TPE domain.

Included is a discussion of goal

achievements, frustrations, questions, concerns, and next steps involved with my PDQP eportfolio.

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PDQP Progress Report

The goals of this course were to select quality artifacts that demonstrate my competency
in each domain of the California Teacher Performance Expectations (2013). I hold a Bachelor
of Fine Arts in Photography from California College of the Arts, therefore I am thankful that I
naturally photographed my students work and my art classroom procedures over the last few
years. It was much easier to find visual examples to populate each domain, especially Domain
A: Making Subject Matter Comprehensible to Students and Domain B: Assessing Student
Learning. Although since the photographs of student work can easily be included to satisfy each
domain, I found that selecting precise examples for each TPE was a bit of a challenge. Over the
last few weeks as I became more competent of the expectations for building my PDQP I often
switched artifacts between different domains until I was happy with the results.
The frustrations I experienced involved the Literature Review component of the
assignments. With no disrespect to the courses team of professors who wrote the course outline,
I just think the expectation was not very clear, as indicated from other students agreeing with my
post about this frustration in Week 3s Discussion Board. Luckily, I am finally grasping what
exactly a Literature Review entailed. I was previously under the impression that the Literature
Reviews were supposed to be write-ups on actual books or articles that supported the
expectations of each domain, rather than a personal reflection of the artifacts chosen for my eportfolio. I had previously written in justifications for each of my artifacts in my Weebly eportfolio instead of writing them as an APA formatted paper. Even though I need to go back and
complete all of the Literature Reviews correctly, at least now I have a better understanding of
what the course was asking for.

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I do not have many questions or concerns about the PDQP experience. I am very fond of
the work I have created and the opportunity to have such a great resource to support my growth
as a teacher. In reflection, I do need to keep a permission slip form with me as I photograph
students and their work. I eliminated most pictures of my students on my PDQP because I only
have permission from my school site to use their photographs. Each student completes a photorelease form as they are admitted to our school, but I would like to create a secondary form that
is catered to their parents so that students and their families are more aware that their childrens
pictures are in existence on the Internet. I found that the text Developing a Professional
Teaching Portfolio (Constantino, 2009) was instrumental to the awareness and preparation of
such a task and I am thankful to have read this resource to gain more insight on the professional
obligations of teachers.
My next steps will be to follow my 5-year professional development plan that I outlined
for Domain F: Developing as a Professional Educator. As I complete each goal of my PD plan I
hope to continue adding artifacts that are evident of each steps completion into my PDQP eportfolio. I will also have to remember that less is more in terms of populating artifacts into my
PDQP. Choosing quality over quantity will demonstrate that my PDQP is a reflection of my
character as a teacher: organized, creative, professional, competent and experienced.

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References

California Teaching Performance Expectations. (2013). Retrieved January 24, 2016, from
http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/TPA-files/TPEs-Full-Version.pdf
Constantino, P. M; De Lorenzo, M. N. (2009) Developing a professional teaching portfolio (3rd
ed.) Pearson Education Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ