National Board Certification

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National Board Certification

• Are You Ready?

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The Mission of the NBPTS is

• To establish high and rigorous standards for what
  teachers should know and be able to do.
  
• To develop and operate a national, voluntary
  system to assess and certify teachers who meet
  those standards.
  
• To advance related education reforms to improve
  student learning.

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What Should Teachers Knowand be Able to
Do?(Five Core Propositions)

• Teachers are committed to students and their
  learning.
  
• Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to
  teach those subjects to all students.

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• Teachers are responsible for managing and
  monitoring student learning.
  
• Teachers think systematically about their
  practice and learn from their experiences.
  
• Teachers play an integral role within their
  learning community.
  

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Who is Eligible?

• NBPTS QUALIFICATIONS
• You are eligible if you
• Hold a bachelors degree.
• Hold a valid state teaching license.
• Have taught a minimum of three years, while
  holding a valid license.
  

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Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program

• Each participant must
• Be an employee of a public school.
• Display satisfactory teaching performance as
  demonstrated by your last evaluation.
  
• Agree to pay 65 application processing fee plus
  10 (250) of the NBPTS application fee (2,500).
  
  
• Agree to teach at least one additional year in a
  Florida public school.
  
• Meet NBPTS qualifications.

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The Certification Process,based on the Five
Core Propositions, consists of two parts.

• THE PORTFOLIO
• ASSESSMENT CENTER EXERCISES

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The Portfolio
(completed in the teachers classroom)

• Examples of student work.
• Videotapes or DVD.
• Other teaching artifacts.
• Professional accomplishments which contribute to
  student learning.
  
• Commentary accompanies each entry.

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Each Commentary Discusses

• The goals and purposes of instruction.
• The effectiveness of teacher practices.
• Teacher reflection on the lesson.
• Questions are provided to guide the commentary.

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The Assessment Center

• Six thirty-minute questions.
• Involve challenging issues in teaching.
• Subject content.
• Taken at Sylvan Learning Center.

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Can I Find Out More?

• Go to National Board website www.nbpts.org.
• Click on Candidate Resource Center.
• Click on Guide to National Board
  Certification.
  
• Click on Eligibility Requirements.

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There You Will Find

• Guide to National Board Certification.
• Online Tutorial.
• COMPLETE instructions for your portfolio,
  including copies of ALL forms you will need.
  

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How Much Time Do I Have?

• Process must be completed in one school year.
  Due date depends on completed registration date.
  
• Accomplished scores (2.75 or higher) can be
  banked for two years.
  
• Advanced candidates may retake any entry which
  was not accomplished.
  

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Scoring

• Each entry is scored independently (on a scale of
  1 to 4).
  
• Assessors are teachers in the same subject area.
• There are 10 scoring categories.

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Only The Total Matters

• Each entry is weighted.
• The high score on one entry can compensate for a
  lower score on another .
  
• A weighted total score is derived.
• An accomplished score is a total of 2.75, and
  that teacher receives National Board
  Certification.

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Are You Ready?

• To undertake serious reflection?
• To gauge your skills and knowledge against
  objective peer-developed national standards?
  
• To spend 300 hours completing
• your portfolio?
• To commit to teach an additional
• year in Florida?

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Benefits Of NBCTs

• Professional recognition
• Personal growth
• Powerful professional development
• Become a better teacher
• Unbelievable camaraderie with teachers you may
  not have known otherwise
  
• Receive certification the highest honor in the
  teaching profession

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In-Service Points

• Completion of the process (plus some paperwork)
  earns 120 in-service points.

Monetary Rewards

• State bonus (10 of the average Florida teacher
  salary for the previous year.

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Additional Bonus for Mentoring
TO QUALIFY, NBCTS

• Must mentor candidates AND new teachers.
• Must work an equivalent of 12 work daysoutside
  of student contact hours (96 hours).

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• NBCTs bonuses are
• calculated as salary
• toward their retirement!

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Join the Growing Number of NBCTs.

• Currently, the Heartland Educational Consortium
  (HEC) boasts 69 National
  
• Board Certified Teachers.
• Florida ranks second in the nation with
• 7,735 NBCTs. North Carolina ranks first
• with 9,814.
• Nationwide, there are in excess of
• 47,500 NBCTs.

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How To Apply

• All pertinent information is available on the
  website
  
• www.nbpts.org .
• Apply online upon completion, download the
  verification of application.
  
• Submit the verification to your district.

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2006 Application Cycle

• June 1, 2006 September 15, 2006
• Apply online, pay the 65 application processing
  fee, and pay your portion (250) of the
  application fee
  
• REMINDER candidates must answer yes to the
  name-release question
  
• Candidates will then be directed to the FLDOE
  promissory note, which MUST be complete to
  receive State funding

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Application Cycle-continued

• District Contacts will verify each candidates
  eligibility approve for funding
  
• Once approved, the application will
  electronically transfer to the State
  
• A subsidy will be paid to NBPTS on the
  candidates behalf
  

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Ready? Set? Go!

• Prepare yourself for a journey like no other.
• Think about teaching in new and exciting ways.

Teachers who earn this distinction NBCTS
Certification represent the gold standard in
teaching and are among the most effective
teachers in our classrooms today.
Former Georgia Governor Roy E. Barnes
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Someone once said

• Education is a funny thing.
• At eighteen we knew all the answers thirty
  years later even the questions confuse us.

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Withdrawal Procedures2006 Application Cycle

• Candidates must notify NBPTS, the State, and
  their District Contact of their intent to
  withdraw
  
• A candidate must withdraw by the portfolio due
  date (March 31, 2007) to avoid repayment of the
  entire 2,250 fee
  
• If a candidate withdraws properly repays the
  required withdrawal fee, they may reapply at a
  future date receive the subsidy again

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• Updated April 6, 2006/lg