Successful Strategies for Pursuing National Board Certification, Version 3.1, Components 1 and 2 contains dozens of strategies designed to propel candidates' journey towards successful National Board Certification for teachers. It reflects the most recent updates and provides a roadmap showing ways to provide evidence of the National Board Teaching Standards. The book explains the National Board Certification process, and how to approach it.There is information covering preparation for the Component 1, Content Knowledge, Selected Response and Constructed Response Assessment Center Exercises. Included are test samples and strategies for interpreting the exercises. It explains how to approach Component 2, Differentiated Instruction, how to plan instruction, choose students to feature, interpret and respond to the prompts, how to collect student work samples and much more. The book contains information that clarifies what candidates are expected to do for each component as well as dozens of writing tips to support writing successfully in the National Board writing “style”.

Bobbie Faulkner spent thirty-eight years teaching grades K-6 in public schools in Ohio, Kentucky, and Arizona. She is a certified as a Middle Childhood Generalist and has renewed her certification. She has supported candidates in all certifications areas for almost two decades, has mentored candidates in her home district and state as well as in university and regional cohorts. She offers webinars to districts and cohorts on National Board topics.