The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

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The National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• By Mr. Scanlan, NBCT

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Overview

• The National Board for Professional Teaching
  Standards is a nonprofit, nonpartisan and
  nongovernmental agency created in 1987 and
  governed by a 63-member board of directors, the
  majority of whom are classroom teachers. NBPTS
  has developed rigorous national teaching
  standards and assessments for what teachers need
  to know and be able to do, and issues national
  certificates for teachers who meet those high
  standards

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The Five Core Propositions of the National Board
for Professional Teaching Standards

• Teachers are committed to students and their
  learning.
• Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to
  teach those subjects to students.
• Teachers are responsible for managing and
  monitoring student learning.
• Teachers think systematically about their
  practice and learn from experience.
• Teachers are members of learning communities.

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Standards Overview Early Adolescence/English
Language Arts
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You Can Do This.-Mrs. Sharon Draper,
NBCTWalnut Hills High School- Cincinnati,
Ohio1998 National Teacher of the Year

• Words of encouragement offered to candidates in
  February 7, 1997 at an open forum in Columbus for
  candidates who were working on their portfolios
  or thinking about working on National Board
  Certification

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Why Did I Want to Achieve National Board
Certification?

• To satisfy a desire to reach more students and
  reflect upon how my teaching leads to student
  success and/or failure
• To determine the best methods of teaching my
  subject area to early adolescents
• To analyze curriculum and apply it to the
  students needs
• To seek professional growth beyond my M.Ed.
• To meet the highest set of standards in my field
• To quiet the critics throughout my life

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NBPTS will offer certificates in the following 12
areas for 1989-1999

• Early Childhood/Generalist (ages 3-8)
• Middle Childhood Generalist (ages 7-12)
• Early Adolescence Generalist (ages 11-15)
• Early Adolescence/English Language Arts (ages
  11-15)
• Early Adolescence/Science (ages 11-15)
• Early Adolescence/Mathematics (ages 11-15)
• Early Adolescence/Social Studies-History (ages
  11-15)
• Early Adolescence through Young Adult/Art (ages
  11-18)
• Adolescence through Young Adult/Mathematics (ages
  14-18)
• Adolescence through Young Adult/Science (ages
  14-18)
• Adolescence and Young Adult/English Language Arts
  (ages 14-18)
• Adolescence and Young Adult/Social
  Studies-History (ages 14-18)

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How Do I Apply?

• The State of Ohio will pay the 2000 application
  fee of the first 400 qualified teachers applying
  for NBPTS certification for the 1998-1999
  academic year
• To qualify for first time state support teachers
  must have at least three years of teaching
  experience at a public or nonpublic chartered
  school in Ohio and must be certificated/licensed
  and teaching in one of the certification areas
  for which they are applying.
• Priority will be given to those teachers who have
  attended a comprehensive orientation session
  conducted by a NBCT
• The deadline to submit applications to NBPTS is
  December 1, 1998. However, those desiring state
  support must submit them to the Ohio Dept. of
  Education prior to November 5, 1998 until all 400
  positions have been filled.

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The Portfolio ComponentThe portfolio is
completed in your classroom and is composed of
student work, videotapes and other teaching
artifacts. The videos and student work are
supported by commentaries on the goals and
purposes of instruction, the effectiveness of the
practice, reflections on what occurred, and the
rationale for your professional judgment.
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The Assessment Center ComponentThe assessment
center exercises are designed to complement the
portfolio and are organized around challenging
teaching issues. This aspect of the
certification process is designed to provide an
opportunity to demonstrate knowledge, skills and
abilities in situations across the age range and
topics of the certificate held.
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The Most Important Lessons Are the Ones We Teach
Ourselves.

• National Board Certification is one of the most
  important professional development opportunities
  you will ever experience in your teaching career.
  Your students will thank you. Their parents
  will thank you. And, most importantly, you will
  thank yourself. The self-reflectionthe
  measuring of yourself against the highest
  standards of accomplished practicewill leave you
  with a new sense of what you teach and a
  revitalized energy about how you teach it.

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For More Information.

• 1-800-22-TEACH
• National website- http//www.nbpts.org
• Ohio website- http//www.ode.gov/tc/nbcert.html
• Rae Harriott and Jeanine Ellis, NBPTS Liasons at
  the Ohio Dept. of Education office at (614)
  466-2761
• Applications are available from the NBPTS office
  at 1-800-532-1813 or the Ohio Dept. of Education
  at [phone]
• Mr. Scanlan, Southwestern Ohio Regional
  Representative for the Ohio Coalition of Board
  Certified Teachers