Choosing Excellence: National Board Certification

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Choosing ExcellenceNational Board
Certification 

• Now go to the top of your profession.

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Benefits

• You learn a LOT!!!
• Professionalizes the profession.
• Provides opportunities to advance your career.
• Qualify for the next lane on the teacher salary
  schedule. Those already in Lane X will receive an
  additional 1,500 per year.
• Eases licensure requirements in many states.
• Graduate Credit Available (up to 9 credits).

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Five Core Propositions
Accomplished teachers
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Eligibility

• At least three years experience as a classroom
  teacher in a public or private school
• You can practice the process in your 2nd or 3rd
  year teaching. HIGHLY recommended AND/OR do Take
  One!
• A bachelors degree from an accredited
  institution
• A valid teaching license

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The certification process

• Is a two-part assessment
• Can be completed in one year, with up to 3 years
  to certify (portfolio scores can be banked
• Take One!

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• Take One!
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• Waves 3 year experience requirement
• Do ONE portfolio (video)
• Bank score for later
• Continue practice year

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Money, money, money!

• Commit to the process and the Multilingual
  Department will pay you for your time in the
  cohort (35 hours at extended-pay)
• Upon successful completion of NBC you will be
  reimbursed 1,000 of the certification fees 

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The Assessments

• Four Portfolio Entries
• Demonstrate accomplished teaching
• Include 2 videos of large- and small-group
  classroom practice
• Require student work samples
• Document continuous learning, leadership, and
  collaboration
• Six Assessment Center Exercises (Written Tests)
• Demonstrate accomplished proficiency with subject
  matter
• Are delivered at a computer-based testing center
• Are timed, with open-response prompts

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English as a New LanguageEarly and Middle
Childhood OR Adolescence Through Young Adulthood

• Entry 1 Assessment as a Tool for Unit Planning
• Entry 2 Scaffolding Learning
• Entry 3 Facilitating Interactions Small Groups
• Entry 4 Documented Accomplishments
  Contributions to Student Learning (START ASAP!)

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The Process

• Phase 1 Prepare (Summer)
• Locating and Using Important Resources,
  Understanding the Portfolio Entries, Following
  Policies and Guidelines, Learning
  Portfolio-Related Terms
• Phase 1.5 Begin Portfolio Entry 4 (Summer)
• Documented Accomplishments
• Phase 2 Develop (Early School Year through
  March)
• Writing about Teaching, Recording Video Entries,
  Analyzing Student Work , Organizing Your
  Portfolio Components
• Phase 3 Submit (By March 31st 2013)
• Understanding the Submission Process, Avoiding
  the 5 Most Common Submission Errors, Assembling,
  Packing, and Shipping Your Portfolio in Five
  Steps, Schedule Testing Center
• Phase 3.5 Assessment Center
• Study and Take Tests

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Timeline
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Scores are

• Defined by a rubric based on standards and core
  propositions
• Assigned by trained scorers in the specific
  teaching field
• Valid, fair and reliable
• Bankable

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Make the commitment Factors

• Time
• Professional goals
• Professional commitments
• Personal commitments
• Mentor

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Candidate Support

• Candidates who reported higher quality mentoring
  were more likely to achieve certification.
  (Freund, 2005)
• NBPTS Guidelines for Ethical Candidate Support
  outlines roles and responsibilities for
  candidates and support providers

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How Nancy Rita Can and Cant Help

• CAN
• Offer support
• Answer questions
• Help you plan
• Observe your lessons
• Reflect on our own experiences
• Read your entries
• Help you study
• Provide feedback

• CANT
• Act as a secretary
• Show you our portfolios
• Guarantee youll pass

We are Guides on the side!
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Before Next Time.

• Contact us ANYTIME!!! We really want to help!
• Download and read the STANDARDS the CORE
  PROPOSITIONS (highlight, highlight, highlight!)
• Download and read the specific requirements
• Focus on portfolio Entry 4 and think about your
  documented accomplishments

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• Download
• Assessment At a Glance
• Standards
• ENL Portfolio Instructions NOT General Portfolio
  Instructions
• ENL Scoring Guides
• Core Propositions
• 3-hole punch put in a tabbed binder (trust me!)
  
• Think About
• Read Entry 4 requirements and think about what
  you might use. Focus on STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT the
  Core Propositions

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• ENTRY 4 What Do I Need to Do?
• Demonstrate
• ? commitment to student learning (work with
  families/community and your development as a
  learner, collaborator and/or leader
• ? how what you do outside of the classroom (or
  beyond explicit student instruction) impacts
  student learning.
• Submit
• ? Description and Analysis (a combined total of
  10 pages maxi for up to 8 accomplishments).
• ? Documentation (a combined total of 16 pages
  max. for all accomplishments).
• ? Summary (2 pages max.) that reflects on your
  accomplishments taken together and future plans.
• Demonstrate your work in each of three
  categories
• 1. as partner with students families and
  community (current year)
• 2. as learner (within the last five years)
• 3. as collaborator and/or leader (within the last
  five years)
• MUST ALL RELATE TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTSPECIFIC
  EXAMPLES NEEDED!!!
• You may choose to demonstrate discrete
  accomplishments in each category, or you may
• address broader accomplishments that cut across
  multiple categories.

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• Rita Platt
• ritaplatt_at_hotmail.com
• 319-400-7430

• Nancy Andrews
• nandrews54_at_hotmail.com
• 952-922-5634

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For more information
Toll-free phone number 1-800-22TEACH NBPTS
Web site www.nbpts.org