 | Price Comparisons: Rental | | Sorry, the textbook you were looking for is not available as Rental, at any of the stores we searched. | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | As a teacher, you are already doing an excellent job in the classroom. Nevertheless, with the implementation of No Child Left Behind, and as more states encourage validation of teaching effectiveness, NBPTS certification remains the one standard by which you can establish unquestioned credibility. National Board certification not only validates—but also reflects—excellent teaching. According to research provided by the NBPTS, board certified teachers outperform their peers in 11 of 13 key teaching dimensions. They are also more adept at recognizing why students succeed or fail on academic tasks, engaging students, and improvising when faced with unexpected occurrences. Nevertheless, the NBPTS certification process is a daunting endeavor. As beneficial and validating as it may be, obtaining this certification is difficult, time-consuming, and challenging. So, You Want to Become a National Board Certified Teacher? will aid you in your quest to pass the rigors of the NBPTS portfolio development and testing. It will take you step by step through each of the four entries of the portfolio compilation, and make sure you stay on track through every stage of the process. So, You Want to Become a National Board Certified Teacher? is designed to offer successfully proven strategies to help you become more productive throughout the certification process, and avoid many of the pitfalls of the 60% first-time failure rate. Chapters include readiness (self-examination), key ‘buzzwords’ to consider in writing your entries, critical teaching strategies to employ in the taping process, as well as numerous helpful websites for further assistance. “I found this book to be very helpful and sound. For the ‘newbies’ I highly recommend investing in this book! Jerry is extremely knowledgeable and he helped me through the process…”
—Eleanor Joyce, NBCT, Virginia “Thank you for simplifying the process for us! The book has helped me tremendously in organizing my thoughts. Thanks for the impact you’ve made…”
—Karuna Chettri, Montessori Primary Teacher, Maryland |
Average Customer Rating:   "Perfect compliment to the new workbook in this handy 'apple' series!" As others have mentioned, this handy little book not only compliments the NBPTS Instruction Guide with helpful 'buzzwords', reminder lists, and cogent bulleted suggestions for Entry 4, but now serves as a terrific accompaniment to the workbook of the same name.
I have been a part of conferences where this book has been used with great effectiveness. However, as the author himself even stated, there was a need for more charts, worktables, and writing samples. The new workbook furnishes all that. While the workbook can be used alone, candidates I have worked with found using both books to be the most helpful. Since both can be had for less than the cost of most other guides alone, Amazon makes this an attractive purchase.
Although I have not read the mentoring book in the apple series, I know the dozens of candidates I have worked with applaud the brevity and succinctness of these books. While the workbook is much involved in practical (and sometimes exhausting) practice, this book is the best ten buck purchase out there to make sure you don't leave out the basics, and to show you how to speak the language of portfolio writing.
So, You Want to Become a National Board Certified Teacher: Workbook & Evidence Manual: A Candidate's Guide to Successfully Passing the NBPTS Certification ProcessMentoring the NBPTS Candidate: A Facilitator's Guide: A Mentor's Handbook for Successfully Coaching the NBPTS Candidate Through the Certification Process
So, You Want to Become a National Board Certified : This is not the book I have been looking for books that actually give a deep understanding of what is required to become a National Board Certified. I order the book for the catchy title, which is the opposite. It gives you bullet points of what you need, not a detailed explanation with examples. You get that from the National Board itself; this book is not worth buying, there are no examples and the information is limited. If you want a good book with details get the : Accomplished Teaching: The Key to National Board Certification by Bess Jennings. It's worth the money and it comes with a CD. "Perfectly compliments the new workbook. Helpful tool." I was asked by my college to review this book as a part of our professional development seminar for experienced teachers. I found the book to be both helpful and readable. It lacks much of the pedagogy extant in most professional development books of this sort, and at this price (!) it's a bargain.
As other have stated, the one glaring weakness is the lack of worktables and charts which the candidate can systematically utilize. The publishers must have heard the cry. Just released is "So, You Want to Become a National Board Certified Teacher: Workbook & Evidence Manual" which I have received as an advance copy. While I may review the latter in the future, let me stress: these books work better in tandem. The workbook is based upon this book.
My recommendation, as stated before, is that at this price, the book is an absolute steal. The so-called 'buzzwords' (to be utilized sparingly in the writing) is worth the cost alone. Now if Amazon would consider linking the book and workbook together as one of their special offers, NBPTS candidates would have a wonderful collection that--together--become more cost-effective than some single works in this same genre. Great book! Need to read before and during your NB process This book was great. It was a short read and had some great tips. I read it when I began the NB process but kept coming back to it for new info. Even came back to it as I began packing the "box". I shared it with a friend who was doing a completely different area than I was. It is well worth the money. "Outstanding! Like having the directions explained as a mentor" Wonderful, simple, easy to read and grasp. It's like having a mentor right beside you to walk you through the process.
Heard the author speak at Harding University in Arkansas in '08. Seemed to be less pedantic than most.
Wish there were a workbook to accompany this little manual, but I am told the author has a book on mentoring that addresses this issue somewhat. I am already strapped for funds in this expensive (!) endeavor, so I probably won't buy it.
I would caution (as does this author) the candidate to be SURE and use his/her own voice. I have heard of some who got so caught up in the key words suggested that their writing began to sound like a machine. These won't score well.
Get a used copy, absorb all you can, then pass the book on to someone else.
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