11th Grade — Portfolio Review Workshop

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

What is the difference between "I like it" and useful feedback? Give an example of each about the same imaginary piece.

🎯 Today's Big Question

How do we give and receive the kind of feedback that actually improves a portfolio before it counts?

📈 By the End of Today, You Will Be Able To

Give structured, specific feedback on a peer's portfolio using a shared rubric.
Receive feedback and identify at least 2 concrete revisions to make.
Practice answering an unscripted follow-up question about a piece of work, as a panel might ask.

🧰 What You'll Need

Portfolio review rubric (shared)
Sticky notes or feedback forms

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: 1

Structured peer review: in small groups, students review each other's portfolios using the shared rubric and leave specific written feedback.

Day 2: 2

Mock panel Q&A: in pairs, students take turns presenting one portfolio piece and fielding an unscripted follow-up question from their partner, then revise their portfolio based on all feedback received.

🖥️ Today's Slide Deck

Short, on-the-board pacing slides — project these to follow along. (The full details are in the handout above, not here.)

Day 1

⬇️ Open / download this slide PDF

Day 2

⬇️ Open / download this slide PDF

📚 Key Words

Constructive Feedback: Specific, actionable feedback aimed at improving a piece of work, not just praising or criticizing it.
Follow-Up Question: An unscripted question a panel asks to test how well you actually understand your own work.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Feedback forms + a short written list of at least 2 concrete revisions each student plans to make.

Exit Ticket: Name one specific revision you're making to your portfolio based on feedback you got today.

📊 Before You Leave

Quick, anonymous class check-in -- takes less than a minute.

Class Check-In

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week (e.g. every Friday, or your class's last meeting of the week), add your best finished or in-progress work to a running portfolio folder with a 1-2 sentence caption: what it is, what skill or standard it shows. This becomes your formal Google Sites portfolio in Unit F -- keep it current all year so you're not scrambling right before your PBAT and portfolio review.

✍️ Example description for your Google Sites portfolio (fill in YOUR blanks -- don't just copy this):

For this piece, I made ______________ (name what you made) for “Portfolio Review Workshop.” This project asked: “How do we give and receive the kind of feedback that actually improves a portfolio before it counts?” I used Constructive Feedback by ______________ (explain how you used it in THIS piece). The hardest part was ______________, and I solved it by ______________. I'm proud of ______________ because ______________.

🎓 ACP Exam Prep

This lesson connects to the Photoshop Adobe Certified Professional exam: Domain 1: Working in the Design Industry

🔗 Want to Learn More?

No extra links for this lesson.

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same structured peer-review protocol an English class writing workshop runs, applied to a full body of work.

Career Connection: Portfolio reviews are literally how hiring works in every career on this site — this is real practice for a real gate.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Get a real portfolio review from an adult outside class (a working designer, a teacher in another subject) and document their feedback. Start here: name the specific adult you'll ask before the lesson ends and send the request that same day.
Revise your portfolio's weakest section based on today's feedback and write a short note on what changed and why. Start here: reread today's actual feedback notes and pick the single weakest section named, not the one you feel like fixing.