• Show overhead, Organizing your portfolio and discuss.
• Show overhead, Benefits in using portfolios and discuss.
• Handout, Portfolio Cover Sample and have the trainees fill out the information (if possible, use a different colour of paper for this sheet).
• Have trainees put it in the back of their binder. The back of the binder will now be a portfolio.
• Handout, Sample Goal Setting / Self-Reflection Exercise (option 1 or option 2). Choose the one with the terminology that you consider the most user friendly.
• Ask trainees to write three specific things they would like to learn during this workshop under the category "objective" (or "want to know").
• Share these as a group.
• The facilitator should keep track of these and put them on butcher paper or an overhead sheet. After the trainees have volunteered their information, take a look at the list and check off which objectives will definitely be covered by the course and which ones you will prepare to respond to on an individual basis.
• If you have a large group of trainees, let them know that it is the trainees' responsibility to make their own portfolio. The portfolio needs to contain evidence of work done to fulfill the objective. Generally, this process would be done collaboratively with the tutor and learner. However, in a large classroom, the learners (in this case, the trainees) need to take more responsibility for the development of their portfolio.

Preview of Session 4 (Optional)

Handout, Preview of Session 4 and explain task. Trainees should fill in the grid while they do their reading.