1) Choose a certificate.
2) Download certificate standards. Go to http://www.nbpts.org/. In the tabs at the top find STANDARDS, then in the drop down menu find STANDARDS BY CERTIFICATE. Use the drop down menus to indicate your subject area and developement area. Once the standards document is on the screen, you will need to download the entire document. It will be long - sorry! Print according to your principal's directions.
3) Download the Take One! Entry. In the tabs at the top of the homepage again, go to FOR CANDIDATES, then THE PORTFOLIO. Again, using the drop down menu indicate the subject area and development area. When the portfolio pages appear, find the entry that is designated for Take One! It will be Entry 3 or Entry 2. Download and print only the Take One! entry. We don't want to kill any more trees than necessary.
4) Register as a candidate. In the tabs across the top, find PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, then Take One! Follow the prompts here to register. Give your candidate number to your principal.
The very best way you can spend your time preparing at this point is to
- read your standards a number of times. At the front of the entry is a list of standards that are particularly important to that entry. Spend a little extra time on those standards.
- read theEntry overview, questions/prompts several times to try and get an idea of what the entry is asking you to do. Try to get a sense of some lessons you already have or may need to plan in order to show the evidence they are asking for.
- talk with someone else doing the same certificate about what you have read. If you are the only one doing a certificate, contact me...I can put you in touch with someone who has already done the certificate or is doing it this year.
- post on this blog and/or email questions and I'll try to clarify.
I'm wishing you a wonderful back to school opening!
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