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Student Success Portfolios
Linda Blair, Joan Dawson, Beth Smith and Joan Zaretsky
Background
In 2013 the Retired Teachers’ Association of Manitoba established a permanent student award endowment fund of $50,000 with the Winnipeg foundation. Four post-secondary student awards of $500.00 were awarded initially from the RTAM Endowment Fund. For 2019, four awards of $850.00 were awarded from the revenue generated by this fund.
Criteria for Student Award Application
The recipient must be: • A relative of a RTAM member. • Involved in school and community activities. • A Grade 12 graduate. • Entering the first year of a post-secondary education program.
Student Success Portfolios
The Retired Teachers’ Association of Manitoba (RTAM) would like to assist your grandchildren, nieces and nephews and other relatives in their successful application for our annual Student Award Program. We are offering information for students to prepare “Student Success Portfolios” to encourage them to collect their mementos and documents starting in Grade 9 to support them in the development of their Student Award application.
The development of a portfolio would support students, not only in applying for our Student Awards, but for other scholarships and bursaries as it helps the student to collectively organize all their accomplishments over their four years of high school.
A portfolio is more than a concrete product. The portfolio development process enables students to become active and thoughtful learners about their own personal growth and skills. Portfolios are the windows into a student’s successes over time.
If you have a relative you believe would be a candidate for the RTAM Student Award when they complete their high school education, you can get them thinking about their many skills and talents to build their own Student Success Portfolio. We believe this RTAM contribution to the preparation of the Student Award applications will facilitate your relative and add to their own self-reflection as they review what they have accomplished during their high school years.
Check for information on building a “Student Success Portfolio” on the RTAM website www.rtam.mb.ca. §
