M1 Portfolio Requirements

Purpose

Acknowledging Progress: portfolios give students the opportunity to understand their own progress in pursuit of their career as a software developer.
Practicing Narrative: portfolio presentation pushes students to articulate their narrative of their technical and professional journey.
Direct Feedback: portfolio feedback allows students to receive a summative perspective of their performance, including threads of successes and areas of growth.

Each student will deliver a 5 minute slide presentation in front of your instructors.

All students will respond to the following prompt:
- How has feedback impacted your development in this module?
- How has feedback conversations with peers helped prepare you for your job/career?
- What is something you’ve learned about yourself in receiving project feedback?
- What has been the most valuable piece of feedback you have received?
- What specific actions are you planning on taking after receiving the feedback from this inning?
A student who will repeat the current module uses their presentation time to explore why they struggled, discuss the lessons learned, and lay out a plan for what will be different next time.
A student who is repeating unsuccessfully and will leave the program is excused from the presentation and can use the entire portfolio time for feedback and discussion.
A student who passes the module will present the following:
- How does your past experience link to your work at Turing and in the eventual career?
- Why are you motivated to become a software developer?
- Reflecting on your career journal from the module, what’s your current vision for a successful career in the software industry?
- How will your Gear Up sessions impact you as a software developer?

Follow a narrative format – this is an opportunity to fine tune your story and how you speak about your work. Slides should flow naturally from one to the next.
Include images and graphics to illustrate the concepts you plan to discuss. These may include screenshots/animated gifs of an application you created, snippets of code from your projects, diagrams of interesting concepts/structures that you used in your project(s).

Students are not required to submit any documents but instead should be prepared to give their presentation to their instructors and engage in a follow up conversation.

If everything goes to plan: good luck in next mod!
If a student fails to present a portfolio (due to illness, etc): need to present it in Week 1 of the next inning
If a student delivers an exceptionally poor portfolio: we’ll determine next steps, possible PIP, etc