TESU portfolio tips

[davewill]

I did not go through any sort of approval process. I had help from the mentor during the PLA-200 course, but it was not any sort of approval process. He did not review my final narratives, in fact, much of the content was written after I had left the class for the first, and the entire second one was written afterward. I simply wrote my narratives and uploaded them with all of the other parts and the SME made his decision. In my case, I received no feedback, I only knew I had succeeded when I saw the credit appear on my informal transcript. It is possible that the SME could come back and make suggestions, or ask for clarification, it just didn't happen in my case.

I used a roughly chronological organization, with some emphasis on different knowledge bases in the different projects and study situations I covered. The learning outcomes were more apparent in my PLA resume where I listed the knowledge I had acquired and how I had acquired it. I treated the narrative more as a way to tie the dry information in the PLA resume into a coherent story.