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<p>One of the basic problems in the learning process is the learning process that doesn’t pay attention to the social and cultural environment of the students. Social and cultural environment is an important potential that need to be studied by the researcher, academician or other educational expert. The lack of attention of the students toward the social and cultural problems in their environment is result of the lack of attention in giving them the awareness about the social and cultural problem it selves. Learning process with conventional ways contributes to the lack of attention in giving awareness of the social and cultural environment of the students. Conventional learning process tends to force the students to memorize as many concepts as possible even though the students sometime don’t even know what they mean. As the result, the learning process is not effective and also tends to be boring and finally it gives negative impact on students motivation. Therefore, a teacher in this case, should be creative and innovative in choosing the method/ model of teaching. Portfolio model of teaching is one of the constructive models of teaching where the students are expected to construct the knowledge through the learning process. Portfolio model of teaching stresses on the students centered learning process. It is not just a collection of students work that are compiled and collected, but it is a a collection of students work that are systematic and meaningful. The application of portfolio models of teaching can improve student’s motivation beginning from the early stage of learning. The steps and procedures of this model has some things in common with the method of research and it starts with identifying the problem, collecting information, studying the solution of the problem, proposing the solution of the problem, showcasing the problem and finally making actions. it can be concluded that portfolio teaching model can improve motivation since the early stage of teaching.</p>