National Board Entry 4 Outline

ENTRY 4 OUTLINE

Standards

VII. Family and Community Partnerships

VIII. Professional Partnerships

IX. Reflective Practice

In this entry, you demonstrate

¡ your commitment to student learning, through your work with students’ families and

community and through your development as a learner and as a collaborator and/or

leader;

¡ your commitment, through evidence of your efforts to establish and maintain partnerships

with students’ families and the community; through evidence of your growth as a learner;

and through work that you do with other teachers at a local, state, or national level;

¡ how what you do outside of the classroom (or beyond explicit student instruction) impacts

student learning.

 Description and Analysis (a combined total of 10 pages maximum for up to 

8 activities or accomplishments). Each Description and Analysis must clearly and

specifically describe why each accomplishment is significant in your teaching context and

what impact each has had on student learning.

¡ Documentation (a combined total of 16 pages maximum for all accomplishments)

that supports the activities or accomplishments that you have chosen to describe.

Documentation can take the form of artifact(s), a Communication Log, and/or Verification

Form(s).

¡ Reflective Summary (2 pages maximum) that reflects on the significance of your

accomplishments taken together and your future plans to improve student learning.

Preparing a Reflective Summary

When you finish writing your Description and Analysis and collecting your documentation,

critically review the materials and write a 2-page Reflective Summary. The summary should

not restate your Description and Analysis; rather, it should analyze the effectiveness of your

accomplishments. This is your opportunity to highlight the significance of your

accomplishments as a whole and to reflect on them and their impact on student learning.

Respond to the following questions for your Reflective Summary. (It is not

necessary to include the italicized questions within the body of your response.)

¡ In your work outside of the classroom (beyond explicit student instruction), what was

most effective in impacting student learning? Why?

¡ Considering the patterns evident in all of your accomplishments taken together, what is

your plan to further impact student learning in the future?

Description and Analysis (a combined total of 10 pages maximum for up to 

8 activities or accomplishments). Each Description and Analysis must clearly and

specifically describe why each accomplishment is significant in your teaching context and

what impact each has had on student learning.

¡ What is the nature of this accomplishment? Be very specific. Remember that the assessor

will know nothing about you or your teaching context.

¡ Why is this accomplishment significant? To be significant, the accomplishment must be an

important effort or achievement that demonstrates your work as a partner with students’

families and their community; as a learner; and as a collaborator and/or leader with

colleagues or other professionals.

¡ How has what you have described had an impact on students’ learning? You need to

connect your accomplishment to the learning of your students or the students of your

colleagues. Where appropriate, cite specific examples