Welcome National Board Candidates Sign in. Pick up your name tag and a copy of our professional norms. Place a copy of your homework in the box provided. Remember to keep the other copy with you. We will use it later. Place the Facilitator-Candidate Agreement in the appropriate box. Sit with your division.

Writing to Achieve Agenda Revisiting our Professional Norms Creating Your Personal NBC Timeline Analyzing Your Writing LUNCH Evidence of Accomplished Teaching Preparing for the Videotaping Workshop Showing Evidence of Meeting the Standards Homework Assignments Assessing our Professional Norms / Burning ???

Revisiting our Professional Norms

NBC Cohort Professional Norms Start on time and be ready on time. Stick to the agenda and end on time. Ask questions for the good of the group. Ask individual questions in small groups or one on one. Prearrange your absence. Have a buddy to keep you informed when you are out. Be an active listener. Be respectful. Be prepared. Do your homework. Follow all instructions.

NBC Cohort Professional Norms Keep our dialogue confidential. Give and receive constructive feedback. Keep cell phones on vibrate. Leave the room if you need to take a call. Limit sidebar conversations. Be supportive and positive. Enforcement of Norms: -Use good natured humor -Practice self governance -Use notes as gentle reminders

Today’s NBCT Facilitators Heather Bumgarner, MCGen, Hanover Harvey Stone, AYA/History-SS, Henrico

Creating Your Personal Timeline Take out the timeline and/or calendar you prepared for homework. Working with a partner in your school division, compare timelines. Insights?

Tips for Timeline, Planning, and Getting Organized

3 Types of Writing for National Board Certification Using your sticky notes… -Write down something you know for sure about descriptive, analytical and/or reflective writing. -Stick your note on the appropriate poster as you move to stand with your school division.

Day/Night Partners →Go to the appropriate corner based on your birth month. →Find two people in a different certificate area that you don’t know. →Ask one to be your day partner and one to be your night partner.

What we know about writing… Descriptive What happened in your room? Setting the scene? Who are your students? Be clear and concise. Be Specific. Details(colorful) You can move beyond age and gender when describing. Those students at that moment in that lesson. Analytical Why? Why? Why? Break into parts. It is the “so what.” Because… Reflective “Next time I will because…” Change, I will, So what did I learn from this? Next time I teach this lesson I will… Looks back and to the future…

Writing Stems and Sleuth Activity!

Sleuth Activity With your partner, look at each statement. Decide if each is descriptive, analytical, or reflective. Remember it may have more than one answer. Discuss answers as a table.

With your partner... Exchange papers. Using three different colored highlighters, highlight examples of description, analysis, and reflection in each other’s writing. Don’t forget: more than one type can be in a sentence. You’ll only have 10 minutes. You won’t necessarily finish the paper.

With your partner... Discuss your highlighted papers with your partner. How many different stems did you find? What was the bulk of your writing? What do you need more of? Why will that help? Did you have sentences that addressed multiple styles? What did you find “easier” or “challenging?” What is a goal you have for your writing?

Copyright VCU Center for Teacher Leadership Read silently the section entitled “Reviewing Your Writing.” This is your General Portfolio Instructions on page Using post-it notes and/or highlighters, identify critical information you need to remember. Before you break, write one piece of advice about writing for NB that you want to remember. Add the note to our poster. Reviewing Your Writing

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Your Tips for Writing Add to the sheet provided…

Copyright VCU Center for Teacher Leadership How do I provide evidence of accomplished teaching? **Accomplished Teachers are the standards!

Your writing shows evidence that you are the standards/an accomplished teacher. 1.You design a lesson that demonstrates the standards. 2.Your video/student work puts the standards into action. 3.Your writing provides evidence to the assessors that you know you are the standards/ an accomplished teacher. **This why you must KNOW and USE the standards. This is why we asked you to personalize them.

Copyright VCU Center for Teacher Leadership YOU Are the Standards! ** Just doing the standards in the video/student work isn’t enough. **You must use your writing to point out the evidence of the standards in practice.

Choices when writing… Heather uses note cards in her video lesson to show fairness. Choice 1: “ I ensure fairness and equity throughout the lesson.” Choice 2: “ In the lesson I used notecards when soliciting answers to question #2. I did this because I know that some students will never raise their hand to answer this type of question, and I want to ensure fairness. When John…

DON’T BE FOOLED - QUOTING THE STANDARDS IS NOT ENOUGH! Accomplished teachers EMBODY and DEMONSTRATE the standards. This can only be “seen” by an assessor if the candidate provides EVIDENCE in his/her Written Commentary that the standards were demonstrated in Video/Student Work Samples/ Verification Forms.

Copyright VCU Center for Teacher Leadership Standard Quoting In my class I ensure that I adjust the curriculum to match the students in ways that promote learning within each student’s developmental range. (Page 8 EA-ELA Standards) Where is the evidence??? Scorers are trained to look for EVIDENCE!

Using the Language of the Standards with Evidence... Having a deep knowledge of my students individually and as a whole contributes to my ability to adjust curriculum to match each student in a way which will promote learning. For example, four of my students are learning disabled and can participate in class discussion about a novel but find it difficult to put their thoughts in writing. To meet their needs, I vary the curriculum and assess them orally while encouraging them to write their thoughts down expressively using a journal. This serves to strengthen their writing ability while also ensuring they are learning the material. **Do you see the description, analysis, and reflection?

Remember: Descriptive, Analytical, and Reflective writing must be interwoven in order to show evidence that you are an accomplished teacher (using the standards). “I did ______, because I know…, in the future I will…” **Don’t forget use the standards vocabulary as you write.

Copyright VCU Center for Teacher Leadership Building Walls of Evidence: What does accomplished teaching look like? NBPTS Clear, consistent, convincing evidence Clear evidence Limited evidence Little or no evidence

Copyright VCU Center for Teacher Leadership Strong vs. Weak Evidence: What’s the difference? Find your day partner. Analyze the difference between the accomplished responses and those that are not as strong. Record your thoughts in the space provided. Add two sticky notes to poster about insights your partnership has about evidence of accomplished teaching.

Copyright VCU Center for Teacher Leadership Lunch! Please let vegetarians go first.

Using “Breaking Down the Entry” Move to your certificate areas. Take out your completed “Breaking Down the Entry” form for the whole group instruction videotaping entry and the “Entry Prompt Sheet” for this entry. Compare your completed sheets with others in your certificate area. Clarify with your group any terms or questions you have about the entry directions.

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Showing Evidence of the Standards In groups of no more than 3, use the graphic organizer to identify 2 standards that you must demonstrate in your videotaping entry (Entry 2 or 3). What would you see in a teacher's classroom that would convince you that the teacher has met each standard? What does this standard look like in practice?

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What have we done? What have you learned? Write some summary statements about today’s workshop focusing on writing types, evidence of standards, and planning/organizing for the process These should be your “take aways” for the future. Insights from group. Insights from NBCTs.

Homework Due by October 15 Identify at least two critical friends who will read for you – one in education and one who is not an educator. Remember: You may want different people for different entries. Read Phase 2: Develop: Recording Video Entries section of your General Portfolio Instructions. Videotape a whole class lesson that could be used for the whole group instruction videotaping entry and respond to the questions outlined on your assignment sheet.

Copyright VCU Center for Teacher Leadership Assessing our Professional Norms How are we doing?

Burning Questions?