Getting Started Workshop

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Getting StartedWorkshop 2

• CERRA National Board Candidate Support
• Workshop Toolkit

WS2 February 2007
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Expectations.

• Why Im here today?
• What Im expecting to learn?

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Essential Questions

• How do I organize my time to complete the
  portfolio?
• What management strategies can I use to help me
  in the NB process?
• What resources do I have available to help me?

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Activity 1

• Mark Your Calendars

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What To Do First?

• Find the What To Do First page in the Get
  Started portion of the NB Portfolio
  instructions.
• Flag this page with a Post-it note.
• Read the page.
• Turn to an elbow partner and say something
• What stands out for you?
• Rephrase an important point.
• Ask a question.

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Resources Organizing and Time Management

• Find the Resources section in the Get Started
  portion of the NB Portfolio instructions.
• Look through the section.
• Flag pages you may want to revisit with a
  Post-it note.
• What stands out in your mind in terms of
  organization and time management, from the
  information you have read?

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• This calendar suggests chunks of time spent on
  each process collecting evidence, selecting
  evidence and so on.
• Some candidates prefer to juggle their entries
  working on one almost through completion before
  beginning the next.
• Select the system that works for you!

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• The portfolio process can be spread across the
  time you have available to devote to it.
• The pattern of work remains the same.
• Customize your own calendar based on your time
  constraints and your work style.

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Mark Your Calendars

• Use the Mark Your Calendar Worksheet to help you
  mark important dates on your calendar.
• What other dates or considerations may you want
  to be mindful of in planning your time?
• What are you going to do first?

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Think About It.

• In what different ways might you make time for NB
  Portfolio work in a schedule that is already
  jam-packed?

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Activity 2

• National Board Language

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Talk About It

• What words or phraseology have you discovered in
  reading the portfolio that werent clear to you
  at first glance?

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Portfolio Related Terms

• Locate the Portfolio Related Terms in the
  Resources section of your NB Portfolio
  instructions.
• Read through the terms.
• Mark information you feel is important to
  remember.
• Talk at your table
• New Learnings?
• Concerns?
• Questions?

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Discussion

• Managing the Work

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Portfolio Tips

• Create a folder or notebook for each entry
• Electronic Label a folder for each entry and
  keep that folder within a folder for NB
• Hard Copy Organize your printed material,
  student work, pictures, notes, etc. in folders or
  file boxes
• Save your work often keep duplicate files on
  data storage devices (floppy discs, CDs or jump
  drives, etc.).
• Collect student/adult release forms early take
  advantage of parent conferences to get them
  signed.

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Portfolio Tips

• Practice videotaping.
• Videotape analyze the tape reflect and learn
  videotape some more!
• Consistently use the Communication Log or some
  other record-keeping document from the beginning
  of school.
• Keep copies of student work samples from more
  students than you actually plan to use so you
  have choices.

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Assessment Center Tips

• Create 6 folders, notebooks or file boxes - one
  for each Assessment Center prompt
• Collect resources books, articles, contacts,
  etc.
• Create a K-N-R chart for each prompt
• K What I know about the subject
• N What I need and/or what I need to learn
• R What resources might help me
• Keep the chart handy revisit it and revise it
  often

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Activity 3

• Building a Network

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Who Can You Call On?

• What NBCTs might be able to help in your school
  or district?
• What experts might you consider as resources?
• What support might you need from the District
  Liaison?
• What time and place can you find to meet as a
  group?

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Workshop Evaluation

• Please take a minute to complete the
  workshop evaluation form. This will help us
  revise each workshop to meet the needs of
  National Board candidates.

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