TAKE ONE Entry

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TAKE ONE! Entry

• Awareness
• 2009

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What is TAKE ONE!?

• www.nbpts.org
• Products and Services

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What is TAKE ONE!?

• Participants
• Complete a specified video portfolio entry using
  a classroom of PreK-12 students.
• Submit the entry to NBPTS to be scored by April
  15, 2010.
• Can apply their scores within two years when they
  begin the whole process of National Board
  Certification.

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Could Be 5-Year NBPTS Process

• 1 Complete TAKE ONE!
• August 2009-April 15, 2010
• 2 and 3 Complete Whole NBPTS Process.
• May 2010-June 2011 or
• May 2011-June 2012
• May 2012-June 2013
• 4 and 5 Achieve or Bank Scores and Retake.
• Fall 2011 Spring 2012
• Fall 2012-Spring 2013
• Fall 2013-Spring 2014

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How to Apply to NBPTS?

• www.nbpts.org under Products and Services
• http//www.nbpts.org/products_and_services/take_on
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• Apply online.
• Make payment.
• Materials will be received within 3 weeks.

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What Do Participants Receive?

• A personal activity book
• A CD-ROM containing the standards
• Portfolio entry instructions
• Packing and shipping instructions
• Bar code labels to be placed on materials
• Envelopes for submitting the entry and forms 
• The box used for the entry submission

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NBPTS Deadlines

• Ordering deadline December 31, 2009
• Entry submission deadline April 15, 2010
• Withdrawal deadline April 15, 2010
• Deferral deadline April 15, 2010
• Withdrawal deadline with partial refund 45 days
  from date on packing list
• Scores available online on or before December
  31, 2010

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My ProfileManage Your Account

• View your application status
• Update your profile
• View your scores
• Make a payment
• Change your username and password

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TAKE ONE! as Effective PD
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EffectiveProfessional Development

• Engage in a learning community.
• Use TAKE ONE! as a lever for teachers to deeply
  reflect.
• Focus on student learning.
• Reinforce a strong link among instructional
  goals, teaching practice and student learning.

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Benefits

• Group Support
• Understand the Process
• High Quality Professional Development
• Finite
• Get your Feet Wet
• Common Language
• Target and Focus on one Entry
• Promote Learning CommunityProfessional
• Directly Related to Classroom

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TAKE ONE! Modules

• Working Agendas and Handouts

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Part OneOutline of Sessions

• Awareness
• Piecing Together the Entry Puzzle
• Getting to Know the Entry
• Setting Goals and Rationales
• Selecting Appropriate Instruction
• Linking Coherent Instruction to Students
• Responding to Questions about Instructional
  Context and Goals

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Part TwoOutline of Sessions

• Thinking Critically about Planning
• Analyzing Videotapes for Evidence
• Writing an Analysis of a Videotape
• Reflecting on Effectiveness
• Revising Thinking by Aligning Decisions
• PackingPutting It All Together

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Developmental Assignments

• Extend Work Begun in the Session.
• Read Directions, Rubrics, Standards, etc.
• Plan for gathering, writing, and analyzing.
• Videotape.
• Draft Responses to Questions.
• Analyze Videotape and Written Commentary.
• REVISE, REVISE, REVISE, REVISE

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Examples of Videotape Assignments
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Structure of Sessions

• Respond to Questions
• Analyze Videotapes and Assignments
• Explicit Explanations
• Small Group Work
• Practice
• Individual Reading and Writing
• Large Group Debrief
• Organizers and Helpful Hints
• Links to the NBPTS Activity Book
• Assignments

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Resources

• NBPTS Activity Book
• NBRC at ISU Modules
• Working Agendas
• Handouts
• References to pages in Activity Book