Mentoring the NBPTS Candidate: A Facilitator's Guide: A Mentor-?s Handbook for Successfully Coaching the NBPTS Candidate Through the Certification Process. This item is unavailable.Mentoring the NBPTS Candidate: A Facilitator's Guide: A Mentor-?s Handbook for Successfully Coaching the NBPTS Candidate Through the Certification Process

If becoming a National Board Certified Teacher is the highest achievement in the teaching profession, helping others through the certification process has to be one of the most rewarding!While there are numerous guides to help NBPTS candidates prepare portfolios, the prospective mentor of such candidates will find limited published assistance. Mentoring the NBPTS Candidate: A Facilitator's Guide was written to address this urgent need.Mentoring the NBPTS Candidate: A Facilitator's Guide will help aspiring mentors lead NBPTS candidates through the portfolio development process. A compilation of years of mentoring tips and suggestions by Jerry L. Parks, NBCT, author of the bestseller: So, You Want to Become a National Board Certified Teacher?, this book is designed to offer successfully proven strategies for new and experienced mentors. Chapters include:FAQ's regarding effective mentoring models for accomplished teaching mentor forms mentor ethicshelpful websites writing tips for Entries 1?4inquiry questioning techniques special considerations for advanced (banker) candidatesEverything a mentor will need to set up the mentoring process is featured in this book.You will find no other book like Mentoring the NBPTS Candidate: A Facilitator's Guide available anywhere to help you, the prospective mentor, succeed in your quest to facilitate your candidates toward NBPTS certification.

Dr. Parks has also authored So, You Want to Become a National Board Certified Teacher?, a handbook for new NBPTS candidates, With Joseph in the University of Adversity: The Miriam Principles, based on principles from the life of Joseph the Hebrew in the Old Testament, Dragons, Grasshoppers & Frogs!, a commentary for teenagers on the Book of Revelation, and Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known, a handbook to help new middle school teachers in their first year of teaching. He became a NBCT in 2002.