M4 Portfolio Requirements

M4 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.

Structure

  • Student-directed presentation (5 minutes)
  • Instructor feedback (5 minutes)

Requirements

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

  • 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:
    • What is one thing you learned in Mod 4 that you will take with you into the job?
    • Weaving it all together, how will you be successful in the workplace?
    • What makes you particularly stand out as a candidate?
    • What will make a company and role the perfect fit for you?
    • How will you share your learning from Gear Up with your future company?

The presentation should not be a series of slides that directly answers each of these questions with bullet points, but instead should:

  • 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).

Submittal

  • 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.

Potential Outcomes

  • 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

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