The workshop will develop participants’ knowledge of how students apply skills developed through ePortfolio creation to other arenas, such as work readiness and identity development. The workshop will focus on recent research by two senior lecturers in teacher education who have been using ePortfolio in their teaching since 2009. Both academics have been impressed by the relationship the creation of an ePortfolio has on the students’ own sense of self.

1. Creating a ‘sense
of self’
Jennifer Munday & jennifer rowley

2. Images and ‘you’
• How do we ‘read’ images?
• We can read images ‘literally’,
symbolically, or
‘metaphorically’.
• What would your literal
interpretation be?
• Is there something in the
image that could be a ‘symbol’
we could interpret?
• If the image were creating a
metaphor, what might it be
representing?

3. another image - a
child’s drawing
How could we interpret it literally, symbolically,
or metaphorically?
Use the same process of thinking for the
following images...

6. • Think about your favourite teacher,
particularly the one that brought you to
your current occupation or field of
study...
• Jot down a few of the qualities that
made them your favourite...
• Think about the qualities of the ideal
teacher (nurse, accountant, scientist...)
• How could we represent these visually?

7. Teachers and teaching
student and faculty generated views and metaphors by B.Cole

8. Orchestra Conductor

9. It's like trying
to make a copy
of
Michelangelo's
David out of
play dough.
You wrangle
with it and
struggle, but
you have to
constantly
work to keep
the dough
warm and
pliable.

10. Teaching is not unlike parenthood: Requires enthusiasm,
commitment and an enormous amount of patience.

11. Choreography

12. Teaching a toddler how to ride a bicycle... In the end, teaching is
about guiding someone through his/her applied individual learning
experience and the time given to the learner to spend on the bike is
more important than the time taken by the instructor to show how
well the instructor can ride the bike.

13. Teaching is like crossing borders: you should approach it like you
have something to learn and something to offer.

14. Teaching is
like skipping
stones.
Students are
the stones
and the
ripples of
water created
are the
infinite effects
of teaching,
whether you
see the final
product or
not.

15. Teaching is like painting. Sometimes the subject makes a
difference but mostly its the style

16. Browse ‘national geographic
photos:
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/?ar_a=1

17. ...put here a bit of writing about my
metaphor or how the image is
symbolic of my teaching...

23. ‘Sense of self’
I have learned that, as teachers differentiate for
their students, I too must differentiate for my
staff. I have deepened my commitment to
explicitly building relationships as it is key to
success. Strengthening capacity of myself as a
leader and of others requires a foundation
created with trust, respect, credibility,
empathy, humour and humbleness. (Graduate
ePortfolio, 25/11/2013)

25. • References:
• Cole, B. Teachers and teaching metaphors.
http://www.slideshare.net/bcole/teachers-and-teaching-metaphors-Creative Commons.
• Rowley, J. & Munday, J. (2014) A ‘sense of self’
through reflective thinking in ePortfolios.
International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and
Education (IJHSSE), Vol 1, no.7. pp78-85:
http://www.arcjournals.org/ijhsse/2014_ijhsse_v1-i7.php