Your student portfolio will be crucial to your development as a professional educator and will be one of the major pieces of evidence you will use to demonstrate how well you meet the standards of your teacher preparation program.

As you move through and then complete your program at Cleveland State, your portfolio will help you in a number of ways. Your portfolio will:
- help you keep track of how you are doing, your areas of strength, and the areas in which you need to make extra effort;
- encourage you to reflect on the documents in your portfolio and determine how you can further develop them to demonstrate high levels of quality;
- show the faculty that you are making progress toward achieving the stated standards or outcomes of your program;