What Works! Successful Strategies for Pursuing National Board Certification
Version 3.1, Components 3 and 4
What Works! Successful Strategies for Pursuing National Board Certification
Version 3.1, Components 3 and 4
Description
This book contains dozens of strategies designed to guide candidates' toward successful National Board Certification. It reflects the most recent updates and provides a roadmap showing ways to provide evidence of the National Board Teaching Standards. This book explains the National Board Certification process and how to approach it. There is information covering how to plan instruction to elicit the data required, choose a group to feature, interpret and respond to the prompts, plan and video lessons, as well as how to collect, interpret, and discuss assessment data for a unit taught. There is also guidance for discussing your professional development and collaboration with colleagues. This book contains information that clarifies what candidates are expected to do for each component as well as dozens of writing tips to support writing in the National Board writing “style.” You'll find writing examples, sentence stems, and many more writing tips for writing clearly, consistently, and convincingly.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is National Board Certification?
Chapter 2: Building Your Foundation
Chapter 3: Getting Started and Getting Support
Chapter 4: Writing for the National Board
Chapter 5: Component 3, Teaching Practice and Learning Environment: The Video Component
Chapter 6: Component 4, Effective and Reflective Practitioner
Chapter 7: Scoring
Chapter 8: Confusing Terms, Topics and FAQs
Chapter 9: Candidate Care
Appendices
Appendix A: Ten Commandments for Survival as a National Board Candidate
Appendix B: 10 Editing Tips to Trim Space without Trimming Content
Appendix C: Sentence Stems for Analytic & Reflective Writing
Appendix D: Component 3: Analysis of a Video
Appendix E: Video Tips for Component 3
Appendix F: SSTARS Lesson Plan Template Based on the Architecture of Accomplished Teaching
Appendix G: 20 Tips from Component 4 Assessors
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Product details
| Published | Feb 05 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 9781475875218 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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