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What is Whole Brain Teaching (WBT)?

Based on cutting edge learning research, Whole Brain Teaching is one of the world's fastest growing, education reform movements. Our materials, available for free download at WholeBrainTeaching.com, are fun and marvelously effective. Over the last decade, WBT's lively techniques have been classroom tested by thousands of educators across the U.S. and in 30 countries around the world. Whole Brain Teaching K-14 classrooms are lled with the sweetest sound teachers ever hear ... task focused laughter.

WBT by the numbers

-- 90,000 registered members at WholeBrainTeaching.com -- 3,000,000 views of WBT videos on YouTube -- 10,000,000 pages of free educational materials downloaded from WholeBrainTeaching.com

What is WBT Certification?

Whole Brain Teaching certication is available at a variety of competency levels from Novice to Living Legend (see next page). A certied WBT educator has demonstrated the ability to effectively use core classroom management strategies and instructional materials described in our manual, Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids available at Amazon.com (click here) and at WholeBrainTeaching.com. Letters of recommendation and awards that accompany WBT Certication can be used as signicant supplements to an educator's professional resume.

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What are the levels of WBT Certification?

Level 1: WBT Novice: 100 Certication Points Level 2: WBT Advanced Novice: 200 Certication Points Level 3: WBT Intermediate: 300 Certication Points Level 4: WBT Advanced Intermediate: 500 Certication Points + score 90% on online certication test (page 5) ---The next level is the biggie! Level 5: WBT Board Certied Instructor 700 Certication Points + Exemplary Video Level 6: WBT Board Certied Trainer 1,000 Certication Points + Special Assignments Level 7: WBT Board Certied District Presenter 1,500 Certication Points + Special Assignments Level 8: WBT Board Certied Regional Presenter 2,000 Certication Points + Special Assignments Level 9: WBT Board Certied National Presenter 3,000 Certication Points + Special Assignments Level 10: WBT Board Certied International Presenter 5,000 Certication Points + Special Assignments Level 11: WBT Living Legend 10,000 Certication Points + Remarkably Special Assignments
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How do you earn Certification Points?

The majority of your WBT Certication Points are earned by simply writing online about our book Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids available at Amazon.com (click here) or by completing grade level Facebook assignments. (Sample writing assignments begin on page 8) You can earn points by posting notes in any of the following places (click on the links). Facebook Pre K and Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Middle School High School Whole Brain Teaching Book Club After you pass Level 5 Certication, points may be earned by starting a blog (see information on page 5. You can start your blog, if you wish, before achieving Level 5 Certication.) Dont make your entries too long, or short! Shoot for about 200-250 words. Put your entries, with the date they were created, in a word processing le. When you reach 10 excellent entries, send the le attached to an email to Nancy Stoltenberg Director of WBT Certication, NancyStoltenberg@WholeBrainTeaching.com. Allow two weeks for processing. You will be notied by email describing the number of Certication Points you have earned. In addition, Ms. Stoltenberg will assign your next steps in WBT Certication.
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What is the Certification Point (CP) scale?

Note: All online posts should be approximately 200-250 words. Partial, or no credit, will be assigned to posts that contain wacky writing errors (missing words, misspellings, awkward sentences.) 25 Certication Points: You can earn 25 points by writing about any chapter in Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids or your WBT teaching experience. Post your comments on the Facebook pages or the WBT Book Club listed on the previous page. Blog Followers: After you pass Level 5 Certication, you earn 1 CP for every blog follower! Write great blog posts, advertise your blog on the WholeBrainTeaching.com forum and other internet sites. When you have 10 outstanding blog or online posts, send them to Nancy Stoltenberg, NancyStoltenberg@WholeBrainTeaching.com Include a link to your blog so that your Certication Points for followers may be tabulated. 100 Certication Points: Create a 5-7 minute sample video demonstrating WBT techniques (send an electronic link to the video to Nancy Stoltenberg, NancyStoltenberg@WholeBrainTeaching.com). 500 Certication Points: After receiving approval from Ms. Stoltenberg, NancyStoltenberg@WholeBrainTeaching.com, begin working on an Exemplary Video demonstrating WBT techniques. An Exemplary Video demonstrates for 5-7 minutes your outstanding Whole Brain Teaching skill with your students. Please use Class-Yes, Teach-Okay and the Scoreboard. In addition, add any other WBT techniques appropriate to your lesson. So that your Exemplary Video can be posted on YouTube, students must have lled out your school's or district's video permission slips. Online Test: To achieve WBT Level 5 Certication, you must pass an online test, earning at least 223 out of a possible 248 points. The test and instructions are on the Quia website (click here).
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What should you remember?

1. You become a Board Certied WBT educator by earning Certication Points. 2. Certication Points (CP) may be earned by -- completing writing assignments posted on our Facebook grade level pages or the online WBT book club. -- CP points by creating Sample or Exemplary Videos, passing the online test or, after passing Level 5 Certication, creating a WBT blog. 3. Online comments should be posted on the grade level Facebook pages, the WBT Book Club (page 4) or your blog. You can use any, or all three of these locations, but dont put the same post on more than one! 4. To apply for Certication, copy your 10 best dated posts and other WBT achievements (video link, online test, blog link) into a word processing le. Send the le to Nancy Stoltenberg, Director of WBT Certication, NancyStoltenberg@WholeBrainTeaching.com. Allow 2 weeks for processing. 5. When you achieve Level 5 Certication, you will receive a Certicate of Achievement (page 8) and a letter of recommendation that can be added to your professional resume. 6. For further information about Certication, contact Ms. Stoltenberg at the email address above. To let everyone know you are a FTBRW (Force To Be Reckoned With) sign your online posts with your total CP. Thus: William Yeats, Level 4, 525 Certication Points.

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What should you really remember?

It is your responsibility to keep track of the points you receive online for your posts, creating your video and the online test. To apply for Certication, copy your 10 best posts and info about other WBT achievements (blog and videos) into a word processing le. Send the le to Nancy Stoltenberg, Director of WBT Certication, NancyStoltenberg@WholeBrainTeaching.com. Allow 2 weeks for processing.
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WHOLE BRAIN TEACHING for

Challenging Kids
The revolutionary teaching system, based on cutting edge learning research, used by thousands of educators around the world

Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids

The following are sample writing assignments (you dont have to do them all!) to guide your exploration of our manual. Post any of these on the WBT Facebook grade level pages or the WBT Book Club (page 4) Each post is worth a possible 25 WBT Certi6ication Points. Chapters 1 & 2: Intro and Origin (pages 1-8) Coach B says... "You've just been made principal of a charter school and you're about to address your staff for the Girst time. Select three points from chapters 1 and 2 that you are going to talk about describing key aspects of Whole Brain Teaching. Include one story about your teaching experience." Chapter 3: Seven Common Teaching Mistakes (pages 9-13) Pick two of the errors described in Chapter 3 of "Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids" and write yourself a letter of advice about how you're going to avoid these mistakes in the coming year. Include one or two useful quotes from the chapter. Chapter 4: Charting Progress (pages 14-17) Imagine next year is completed. Youve faithfully charted your own behavior as an instructor and your students progress. Looking back, what did you learn? Chapter 5: The Brain on Whole Brain Teaching (pages 18-26) Thinking about your own teaching tendencies, which brain areas are you most likely, and least likely, to activate in your students?

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Chapter 6: Class-Yes (pages 27-30) Get ready for some quick WBT CertiGication Points! Invent 10 variations on class-yes! Chapter 7: Five, Powerful Classroom Rules (pages 31-43) Describe how you will teach, and continue to reinvigorate for the school year, one of the Five Classroom Rules. Chapters 8-10: Teach-Okay (pages 44-61) Write a short dialogue, like one of the samples in Chapters 8-10, demonstrating the use of Teach-Okay in one of your favorite lessons. Chapter 11: The Scoreboard (pages 62-76) From the 15+ variations of the Scoreboard in Chapter 11, pick the Give you will use in the school year. Explain why you picked each one and estimate how long you will use your selection before going on to the next. Chapter 12: Mirror, Hands and Eyes (pages 77-84) Creating gestures for core knowledge is a common challenge in WBT. For example, a gesture for active verbs is churning your arms like you are a steam engine; a gesture for passive verbs is folding your arms. Invent and describe gestures for three core knowledge terms (and dont copy any existing gestures from WBT!). Chapter 13: Daily Classroom Procedures (pages 85-94) Using WBT techniques, describe how you would teach your students to efGiciently perform a classroom procedure (not described in this chapter). Chapter 14: Scoreboard Levels (pages 95-97) Which of the Scoreboard levels are you most likely to use next year and how long do you estimate you will stay at each level?

WHOLE BRAIN TEACHING for

Challenging Kids
The revolutionary teaching system, based on cutting edge learning research, used by thousands of educators around the world

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Earn up to 25 WBT Certication Points for each post!

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Chapter 15: The Super Improvers Team (pages 98-106) Evaluate the strengths and weakness of the Super Improvers Team as applied to weak, intermediate and academically advanced students. Include a note evaluating the Super Improvers Teams possible effectiveness with extremely challenging students. Chapter 16: Improving State Test Scores with the Super Improvers Team (pages 107-113) Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the plan described in this chapter for improving state test scores. Chapters 17-18: Practice Cards (pages 114-123) Write a letter that your students will take home to their parents, describing why and how you will use Practice Cards. Chapter 19: The Guff Counter (pages 124-129) Write a note to an administrator explaining why you believe the Guff Counter will be an effective classroom management technique. Chapter 20: The Independents (pages 130-133) Think back to your years in middle school. Evaluate how effective the Independents would have been with a group of your peers? Chapter 21: The Bulls Eye Game (pages 134-138) Compare and contrast the Bulls Eye Game with any other method you have used, or have observed, for dealing with a challenging student. ble

WHOLE BRAIN TEACHING for

Challenging Kids
The revolutionary teaching system, based on cutting edge learning research, used by thousands of educators around the world

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Grades K6

Put these posts on your blog, the WBT Facebook pages or the WBT Book Club (see page 4)!

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Chapter 22: The Agreement Bridge (Pages 139-152) Compare and contrast the Agreement Bridge with any counseling technique you have used, or have heard about, for dealing with a challenging student. Chapter 23-24: Whole Brain Teaching and Critical Thinking (pages 153-161) Pick any three techniques described in these two chapters and describe how you would use them to improve the critical thinking skills of your students. Chapter 25: Smart Cards (pages 162-168) Smart Cards are a new addition to WBT strategies. Evaluate their effectiveness. Chapters 26-29: (pages 169-193) Explain how four ideas, one from each chapter, might improve your teaching. Chapter 30: Bonus Chapter: Designing Your WBT Model Classroom (pages 194-217) What are the Girst four features of a model classroom you are most likely to adopt for your class and why? Chapter 31: Bonus Chapter: The WBT Five Step Lesson Template (pages 218-228) Following the models in this chapter, write your own Five Step Lesson Plan. Chapter 32: Bonus Chapter: The 11 Day Writing Lesson Plan (pages 229-255) Describe the difference between one of these lesson plans and how the lesson might be taught in a traditional (non-WBT) classroom Appendix Mind Sports: (pages 256-263) Write 25 short answer questions that could be used in Mind Soccer or Mind Volleyball. Appendix Rehearsing Procedures: (pages 264-266) Write a short script, like one in this chapter, for rehearsing a classroom procedure.

WHOLE BRAIN TEACHING for

Challenging Kids
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Dream of one day becoming a WBT Living Legend! Earn those Certication Points!

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