Full Description
Successful Strategies for Pursuing National Board Certification, Version 3.1, Components 1 and 2 contains dozens of strategies designed to propel candidates' journey towards successful National Board Certification for teachers. It reflects the most recent updates and provides a roadmap showing ways to provide evidence of the National Board Teaching Standards. The book explains the National Board Certification process, and how to approach it.There is information covering preparation for the Component 1, Content Knowledge, Selected Response and Constructed Response Assessment Center Exercises. Included are test samples and strategies for interpreting the exercises. It explains how to approach Component 2, Differentiated Instruction, how to plan instruction, choose students to feature, interpret and respond to the prompts, how to collect student work samples and much more. The book contains information that clarifies what candidates are expected to do for each component as well as dozens of writing tips to support writing successfully in the National Board writing "style".
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is National Board Certification?
Chapter 2: Building Your Foundation
Chapter 3: Getting Started and Getting Support
Chapter 4: Component 1, Content Knowledge: A Computer-Based Assessment of Content and Pedagogical Knowledge
Chapter 5: Component 2, Differentiation in Instruction: Sharing Accomplished Teaching Through Student Work Samples
Chapter 6: Writing for the National Board
Chapter 7: Understanding Your Scores
Appendices
Appendix A: SSTARS Lesson Plan Template Based on the Architecture of Accomplished Teaching
Appendix B: Sentence Stems for Analytic & Reflective Writing
Appendix C: 10 Editing Tips to Trim Space without Trimming Content
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