E-portfolio and Teacher Training. Building a Culture of Trust in School Contexts

This paper presents some thoughts concerning the use of an ePortfolio in teacher training and aims to bring out the complexity and usefulness of this tool in order to promote meaningful and authentic teacher training expertise. The use of an ePortfolio as a tool for assessing teachers’ expertise nevertheless evidences a number of critical issues that have been highlighted by the research, since many factors may affect its creation and, consequently, the assessment of the portfolio itself, such as cultural elements and the language and expressive skills of the teacher, author of the ePortfolio. Despite these criticisms, the ePortfolio appears to maintain a valid and fundamental importance in teacher training and shows how a culture of trust and mutual recognition represents the necessary substrate implementing personal and professional growth processes within the school.