National Board Certification Effective Writing and Assessment

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National Board CertificationEffective Writing
and Assessment

• Tuesday, November 18, 2008
• 430- 630 pm

Beth Thrailkill, NBCT 2006 Early
AdolescenceSocial Studies/History Crayton Middle
School
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Before you demand more from your students, demand
more from yourself.
Become a National Board Certified Teacher

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Objectives

• Writing about Teaching
• Description/Analysis/Reflection
• Practice
• Assessment Centers
• Q and A

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Writing about Teaching

• Three steps in portfolio writing
• Describe
• Analyze
• Reflect
• Written commentary to set the stage.

• How?
• Why?
• So What?
• Your communication with your assessors
• Your analysis of what happened when you taught
• Practice, Practice, Practice

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Description

• Your retelling of what happened in the classroom.
• SET THE SCENE
• Logical
• Detailed
• Sense of your classroom
• Accurate and precise
• Event, person, concept, strategy
• All elements as if you were an outsider

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Analysis

• Reasons
• Motives
• Interpretation
• Concrete evidence with materials you submit
• Thought process and conclusions
• Significance of evidence
• Give assessor rationale

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Reflections

• Thought process after teaching
• How would you approach similar situations
• In the future same, different, not at all
• How do you learn from your own experience
• How will you improve
• What worked, what didnt and how you will change

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Analysis v. Reflection

• Interpretation
• Examination of why events or strategies occurred
• Why are they the way they are

• Self-analysis
• Retrospective
• In the future, what would you change and why

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Important Questions
What did my students know before this teaching
experience? What did my students learn because of
this teaching experience? What did I know about
my students and their knowledge before this
experience? What did I learn about my students
and my practice because of this experience? What
would I do differently? (good or bad)
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Practice
Practice 1 Observation and Description Practice
2 Interpretation What do the responses tell
you? Practice 3 What do the response tell you
about your practice? Practice 4 Reflection
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Review Your Writing

• Be objective
• Take time away
• Dont think about it while you are away
• Have another person read it
• Have someone outside the profession read it
• All feedback is valid and important
• QTIPdont take it personally
• Follow suggestions that make sense
• Keep STANDARDS in mind for all writing.

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Assessment Center
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For Submission
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Questions?

• Beth Thrailkill
• ethrailkill_at_richlandone.org
• Crayton Middle School
• 738-7224