Students need time to enter tasks, teachers need time to review curriculum, develop tasks, and evaluate portfolio entries/tasks, and the review panels need time to evaluate graduation portfolios. Your school schedule must be reviewed and provisions made to accommodate students and teachers in the process of creating and evaluating graduation portfolios.

Things to Consider

Be sure to remember that a graduation portfolio system will change the way teachers and students work and time structures may have to be adjusted to accommodate these changes. Schools have approached these changed time demands in a number of ways; no one schedule will suit all schools. It is important to be flexible and creative and to include teachers, parents, and students in any planning for schedule changes, as their lives and work will be most affected by these changes.