Preparing for the Assessment Center Workshop

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Preparing for the Assessment Center Workshop 9
CERRA National Board Candidate Support Workshop
Toolkit
WS9 February 2007
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Expectations.

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

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Essential Questions

• How can I prepare for the assessment center?
• What questions will be asked at the assessment
  center?
• What resources do I have available to help me?

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Activity 1.1

• Round the Room
• and
• Back Again

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Whad Ya Know?

• Write down something you know or something you
  have heard about the assessment center.

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Round the Room

• Set your writing aside.
• Move around the room.
• Share what you know or have heard.
• Hear what others know or have heard.
• When you cant remember any more, or when time is
  called, return to your seat.
• List as many ideas as you can remember.

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and Back Again

• Talk in small groups.
• Share lists and add new ideas or information to
  your list.
• Which ideas or comments seem to be the most
  important to remember?
• What ideas or comments may need more
  clarification?

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Discussion

• What ideas or comments were heard frequently?
• What ideas or comments seemed the most ambiguous?
• What items require more clarification?
• What steps must you take to be successful at the
  assessment center?
• What new learning do you have about the
  assessment center?

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Activity 1.2

• Post-It Parade

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Whad Ya Know?

• What do you know or what have you heard about the
  assessment center?
• Write one idea on each Post-it.
• Write as many Post-its as you can.

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Create a Continuum

• Place your Post-it ideas on the wall to show
  your level of confidence with each piece of
  information.
• Place your Post-its between Know and Dont
  Know

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Discussion

• What patterns do you notice?
• What ideas or comments seem to cause the greatest
  concern?
• What steps must you take to be successful at the
  assessment center?
• What items require more clarification?
• What new learning do you have about the
  assessment center?

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Discussion

• Assessment center Web site support
• Basic information online at
• http//www.nbpts.org/for_candidates/assessm
  ent_center
• Additional information is included in the
• Assessment Center Orientation Policy and
  Guidelines

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Activity 3

• Dissecting Descriptions

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Assessment Center Exercise Descriptions

• Read through the description for one of the six
  assessment center exercises.
• Highlight key terms.
• Tell an elbow partner what you will have to know
  and write about for this exercise, using your
  own words.

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Dissecting the Descriptions

• Use the highlighted exercise description.
• Write one key word or phrase in each of the boxes
  in the first column of the worksheet.
• Write excerpts from the NB standards that match
  the word or phrases in the boxes.
• Fill in what you know.
• Fill in what you need to learn.
• What resources might help you?

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Whad Ya Need?

• Share completed worksheets with your elbow
  partner.
• What other ideas can be added?
• What resources might be helpful?
• Repeat this sequence with the next assessment
  center exercise.

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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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