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Great Plains Center for National Teacher Certification

Working Wisdom:
A Guide to Accomplished Teaching

How to Use this Guide

Working Wisdom: A Guide to Accomplished Teaching is a larger resource divided into volumes of similar certificate areas. The purposes of sectionalizing are two-fold:

(1) it will appear less daunting and increase the probability of its usage by candidates; and,

(2) it will be easier to update when certificate changes are made by National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Working Wisdom

Volume 1 ♦
Early Childhood / Generalist
Middle Childhood / Generalist

Volume 2 ♦
Adolescence and Young Adulthood / English Language Arts
Early Adolescence / English Language Arts
Early Childhood through Young Adulthood / Library Media
Early and Middle Childhood / Literacy: Reading-Language Arts

Volume 3 ♦
Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood / Career & Technical Education
Adolescence and Young Adulthood / Mathematics
Adolescence and Young Adulthood / Science
Early Adolescence / Science

Volume 4 ♦
Adolescence and Young Adulthood / Social Studies-History
Early Adolescence / Social Studies-History
Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood / World Languages Other than English

Volume 5 ♦
Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood / Art
Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood / Music
Early and Middle Childhood / Music

Volume 6 ♦
Early Childhood through Young Adulthood / Exceptional Needs Specialist

To make this resource user-friendly and appreciative of a candidate’s time, the suggestions listed within each certificate have been condensed. Instead of repeating the same suggestions for repeated sections of the Note-Taking Guide in Entry 2 or Entry 3 of the same certificate, the first bullet may read, “Refer to suggestions provided in Entry 1.” If there are additional suggestions (those not listed in the previous entry) then those will follow that first statement. Visually, this may appear as if Entry 2 and Entry 3 are less important. This could not be further from the truth. Each entry (1, 2, and 3) has an equal weight in the overall scoring of the total
assessment process.

While we have made these suggestions certificate-area-specific, if you look through certificates other than your own area of certification you will find some significant similarities to go along with the inevitable differences associated with teaching at different developmental levels and/or content areas. Some aspects of good teaching cross over developmental and disciplinary boundaries. Others do not.

 

 

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