Advantages of Disadvantages of using Portfolio

TALKING INTO ACCOUNT YOUR PERSONAL TEACHING CONTEXT, WHAT WOULD BE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING THE ELP WITH YOUR GROUPS?

              The phenomenon of the portfolio has increased in the last years. The idea of portfolio deals with collection and organization of the student´s learning and the reflection of this progressive learning in their portfolios. So the student can see his or her progression and what has learnt and what has to improve and trough the student´s deep thinking, the student can plan his or her learning.

            The idea of portfolio comes from of the idea of the Common European Framework, which wants to promote multilingualism. Like others aspects of our life, the portfolio has get used to new technologies, so we can find classic  portfolio print in paper and new in a electronic format.

            I think that primary teachers could not work with the portfolio in the same way as teachers of secondary education.

            In my opinion the use of portfolio with children is impossible, therefore there are not advantages or disadvantages. For me the only idea would be adapt some aspects proposed by this tool, but always with the help of parents because children do not have the ability to reflect their learning and could not evaluate or arrange the necessary information needed when working with the portfolio.

             I believe that a good idea for promoting  multilingualism and multiculturalism could be the learning of a second language, as nowadays different communities do with the teaching of a second language as Valencia, Catalan, Galician. From my point of view the learning of a third language would be perfect because this is done in different countries of Europe and we can assure that woks perfect. 

            The use of portfolio in secondary school has many advantages when the student learns a second language but at the same time we can find disadvantages. Some disadvantages that I see, could be:

            -A need planification is needed;

            -From the point of view of the evaluation is not a completed tecnique.     This should be completed withs anothers tecniques and tools;

            -When somebody does not want to work every day, it should not be used.

            To sum up, we can say that he portfolio has many advantages but not only the use of a portfolio means sucess. For a succesul portfolio we must work with it constantly