What Works! Successful Strategies for Pursuing National Board Certification

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”.