Electronic Portfolio: Student as a Citizen

Citizen and Personal Entries

Citizen and Personal entries are an opportunity for you to share with the portfolio audience something about yourself that the reader may not know. These entries will most likely come from activities you participate in outside the regular school day. When looking at the examples listed below, you may even see where some of these activities overlap.

Citizen and Personal entries may include artifacts and/or written summaries. Artifacts include pictures, documents, ticket stubs, official programs from events, video clips, audio files etc. For each entry, you will need to write a caption and/or a brief description showing the significance of the experience and how it may possibly relate to your selected career pathway. Let the reader know why this experience was so important to you. A brief description is required for each personal or citizen entry.

Brief Written Descriptions/Captions should describe an event or accomplishment in one or two well-written paragraphs. Tell what happened and why it was important to you or related to your selected Career Pathway.

Example:
Thanksgiving Food Drive—November 2007 (Label as a Citizen or Personal Entry)
Too many children go to bed hungry at night because their families can’t buy food. This is especially hard during holidays, when others seem to be celebrating how much they have. This past November I participated in the food drive at our High School. I know that four cans of vegetables aren’t much, but, if everyone gave just a little, no one would go hungry. We set a few record for giving of over 10,000 pounds of food. More importantly, we helped someone in need.

Citizen entries show how you participate in your local or school community. The purpose of the citizen entries are to encourage students to develop/promote citizenship by getting involved and developing a sense of community. A citizen entry may be an activity that you are involved in over a long period of time or it may also be an activity lasting a few hours. You may participate in various activities that would qualify as citizen entries such as attending a school board meeting, city council meeting, government employee interview, civic activities and/ or a community service project. View more Citizen Entry ideas.

Personal entries are much broader than citizen entries and are open to just about anything you want your portfolio audience to know about you. If you want the audience to know that you are an artist, show some of your art work. If you are involved in extra curricular activities, use a copy of an award or certificate you earned. Use personal entries to explain how you overcame a particularly difficult event during the semester. You may also choose to use personal entries to describe working with a mentor or describing a guest speaker that impacted you personally. These are just a few ideas; view more Personal Entry ideas.

Student as a Citizen Summary: Download and use this form to record your community service and citizen/personal entries. When you participate in the activity, volunteer, or attend a meeting, be sure to record the name of the activity, location, date, and length of time. Each year you should have at least two citizen and two personal entries in your digital portfolio.

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Electronic Portfolio: Student as a Citizen

Citizen and Personal Entries