What Works! Successful Writing Strategies for National Board Certification
What Works! Successful Writing Strategies for National Board Certification
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Successful Writing Strategies for National Board Certification leads National Board candidates through various strategies to help them write in the “National Board Style”. How a candidate writes about their teaching practice greatly impacts the success of their efforts to become a Board-Certified Teacher. Components the candidates submit depend on writing that is clear, consistent, and convincing. All the Scoring Rubrics are built upon those elements. This book gives many writing strategies, tips, and examples to lead candidates toward the goal of submitting work that meets the National Board Standards for accomplishment.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is National Board Certification?
Chapter 2: Building Your Foundation
Chapter 3: Getting Started and Getting Support
Chapter 4: The Reflective Teacher, Metacognition, and the National Board Process
Chapter 5: Writing for the National Board
Chapter 6: Probing the Prompts
Chapter 7: Component 2, Differentiation and Writing About Student Work
Chapter 8: Writing for Component 3: The Video Component
Chapter 9: Writing for Component 4: Effective and Reflective Practitioner
Chapter 10:Component 1 Writing at the Assessment Center
Chapter 11: Candidate Care
Chapter 12: Confusing Topics and FAQs
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 TemplateBased on the Architecture of Accomplished Teaching
Appendix G: 20 Tips from Component 4 Assessors
Appendix H: Component 4 Section Connections
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Product details
| Published | 05 Feb 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 3rd |
| Pages | 136 |
| ISBN | 9781475875188 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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