I began this portfolio with a sense of overwhelment.  After all, how was I, a student teacher, going to put together my thoughts and ideas about teaching?  Where was I, a student teacher, going to begin to create an Interdisciplinary Unit?  Although I knew I had a whole semester to complete this portfolio, it seemed like an insurmountable task.
 
    I thought of beginning my portfolio at my first placement of student teaching. However, as the weeks went by, I found myself concentrating more on me as an educator and taking that opportunity to learn and receive experience.  I began my portfolio during my second student teaching placement.
 
  The process of thinking about and creating the artifacts in this portfolio was both educational and frustrating.  It was educational because I learned so much about education as an institution, about myself and my beliefs, about my cooperating teacher and mostly about my students.  The portfolio compelled me to take the time to ruminate over concepts I would otherwise have pushed to the side.  That it also the reason that the process was frustrating.  At times I felt as if I would never find the information that I need, I would never get the lesson to run the way I envisioned it.  The portfolio process challenged me in way that nothing in the past ever has.  It is with a great sense of accomplishment that I can write that I rose to the challenge.

    It is with this sense of accomplishment that I think about my portfolio.  I attempt to form an unbiased opinion of the portfolio itself.  Of course, that is impossible.  So from my biased position, I write that the insurmountable was indeed surmountable and I can smile in the face of the next seemingly overwhelming task.