Influencer Strategy
Technology is changing rapidly, especially in the classroom. By introducing e-Portfolio's into the classroom, the students will gain a sense of accountability and creativity to their learning. Menard (2024) stated, "E-portfolios can be rich and indispensable sources of information for educators and students, which going forward should become a standard feature at all proactive schools and colleges." This will not only increase the usage of technology, but it will also enhance the use of technology. By introducing e-Portfolio's, the time spent creating your ePortfolio is good preparation for job and graduate/professional school interviews (Indiana University 2025). e-Portfolio's will help pave the way for our students to be successful in the classroom, and to also help them be successful for their future. e-Portfolios aid in metacognition by providing students a space to pause and reflect on learning and how to transfer it to future contexts (University of Arizona 2025).
Results I want to Achieve?
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Students will increase their accountability to their own learning as they build their e-Portfolio.
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Students will be able to retain information more by going back to each tab in their e-Portfolio.
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Students will gain creativity as they are making the e-Portfolio their own.
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Students will gain empowerment by allowing the students to enhance their critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
How Will I Measure The Results?
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By checking their e-Portfolios weekly, I can make comments on things they can work on to make their work better.
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As assessments are taken, the teacher can go back and help with misconceptions
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At the beginning of the year, students will take a test before creating e-Portfolio's to see what level the student is on.​
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Post Assessment: Students will take the same test before the STAAR test to see where they are in terms of are they state ready to pass the exam.​
Vital Behaviors to Change
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Student Involvement: Students consistently update their e-Portfolios as it is being taught.
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Parent Involvement: Parents can check their students work weekly to see what they are doing for the week.
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Teacher Involvement: Teachers and staff can work with one another to come up with better solutions if there were any problems pertaining to the e-Portfolio.
Key Influencers
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Teacher: The teacher will be in charge of making sure everything is running smoothly, and making sure their students are aware of what should be added to their portfolio as each topic is being taught.
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Administrators: The administrator will help the teacher of record to ensure everything is running smoothly
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IT: IT will be in charge of ensuring all technology pieces are up to date to ensure the success of the students.
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Parents: Parents will help encourage their students to turn in quality work to their portfolio's.
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Students: Students will be encourage their peers to complete and turn in quality work.
Six Sources of Influences
Encourage all teachers, especially veteran teachers to integrate technology more in their classroom. Slowly introduce e-Portfolio's to teachers to see the benefits of using them in the classroom.
Offer professional development to show the benefits and usefulness of using e-Portfolio's in the classroom. e-Portfolio's can be used to increase accountability and creativity to our students education.
Create a group of team leaders and group them based on content. The team leads would be in charge to help train teachers to incorporate e-Portfolio's into the classroom.
Teachers will meet with their team lead and share theirs thoughts and see how they can improve and what can be done to improve the e-Portflio's
Give teachers incentives to help encourage innovation of e-Portfolio's into the classroom. Incentives include no duty for a week, meals covered for the week, etc.
After weekly checks, students who add more to their e-Portfolio's can have free time on their phones for meeting the expectations of the week.
References
​Ménard, J. (2024, January 10). The e-portfolio value for students and educators. ListEdTech.​
​Indiana University Indianapolis. (2025). Benefits: ePortfolio. https://eportfolio.indianapolis.iu.edu/benefits/index.html​​
University of Arizona Academic Affairs. (2025). L2L strategy -Metacognition.
https://academicaffairs.arizona.edu/l2l-strategy-metacognition​
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