PORTFOLIO OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT FOR PREPARING QUALITATIVE STUDENTS AS FUTURE TEACHERS

The problem of professional practice documentation is extensive and more complex, connected and mutually interdependent with important new problems such as the development of new curricula, the structure of professional practice within the curriculum, the concept and division of roles between leading actors to this structure. Preconception of the documentation was conditioned by the construction and application of new curricula with a 3-year timeframe of the study due to Bologna Charter. In the curricula that we are applying we usually combine a serial of weekly practices extending from the second to the sixth semester. The documentation should not only rely on the reallocation of roles but should have a linearity, a continuous climbing, in terms of evolution or professional development from student to teacher status with complex skills. This documentation should cover at the same time the organizational side of pedagogical practices, their content, and evaluation of students on the basis of skills that a teacher should possess. On the other hand, they have to support and be aligned with the rest of school documentation, subject matter and teaching fields which are reciprocally linked. Firstly: The documentation of professional practice will increase the responsibility of all parties involved in this process; Secondly: The documentation will clearly define roles; will sanction the rights and duties of everyone (mentor teachers, students and tutors); Thirdly: will help, orient, and facilitate interactive parties in this process; Fourthly: Documentation with theoretical and practical character is required. Student's portfolio is a document that will involve the student's development, achievements gained within the academic environment and workplace, which contains the outline for teaching, learning and assessment process. The made assessment is based on the student's portfolio, the purpose is to favor co-evaluation and self-assessment and to centralize all the assessments made during the school year in order to be taken into consideration in determining the final outcome.