National Board for Professional Teaching StandardsTM NBPTS

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National Board for Professional Teaching
StandardsTM (NBPTS)
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NBPTS Standards
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Ron Helms
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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The Architecture of Accomplished Teaching
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Teacher Quality
National Commission on Teaching Americas
Future (NCTAF)What Matters Most Teaching for
Americas Future
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What are the Requirements ?
Candidates must have

• A bachelors degree
• Taught a minimum of three years
• in a public or private school
• Held a valid teaching license

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The National Board Academy Las Vegas, NV. (1999,
August 14).
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The National Board Certified Teacher
Dora L. Bailey Ronald G. Helms 470
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For more information..

• Visit www.nbpts.org
• Call 1-800-22TEACH

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NBPTS Standards
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NBPTS Brochures and Newsletter
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Wright State University Dayton, OH
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NBCTs Recruit New Candidates
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NBCTs Recruit New Candidates
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NBCTs Conduct Orientations
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Teacher Education Department
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NBCTs Facilitate Candidates
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NBCTs Facilitate Candidates The Box
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Top Ten NBCTs by State (Total)
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Where are the NBCTs ?
As of December 2002, legislative and policy
action creating incentives and recognition for
National Board Certification has been enacted in
48 states. Please check http//www.nbpts.org/about
/state.cfm for current information.
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Where are the Incentives for Becoming an NBCT ?
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Facilitation
Documentation of the entries must include
verification by colleagues, supervisors,
principals, etc. Candidates must document their
work outside the classroom with families and the
larger community and with educational colleagues.
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Documentation of Accomplishments
Candidates must compose two brief
interpretative summaries documenting their
accomplishments One for accomplishments with
families/ community. Another for accomplishments
within the profession.
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Incentives for National Board Certification

• Incentives and rewards can include
• Salary supplements
• Full or partial fee support
• Full or partial credential reciprocity
• State license renewal
• Time to Complete Portfolio

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Ive come to the frightening conclusion that I am
the decisive element in the classroom. Its my
personal approach that creates the climate.
Its my daily mood that makes the weather. As
a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make
a childs life miserable or joyous. I can be a
tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all
situations, it is MY response that
decides whether a crises will be escalated or de-
escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized
-- Hiam Ginott
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Research Confirms National Board Certification
Recognizes Accomplished Teaching
The University of North Carolina - Greensboro
Validation Study found that

• NBCTs significantly outperform their peers in 11
  out of 13 key dimensions.
• Work samples from students of NBCTs reflected a
  higher level of comprehension (when compared to
  students of teachers who sought but hadnt
  achieved National Board Certification)

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FEE SUPPORT STATES Alabama Arkansas
California Delaware Florida Georgia
Illinois Indiana Hawaii
Iowa Kansas Kentucky
Louisiana Maine Maryland
Massachusetts Michigan
Mississippi Missouri Nevada New York
North Carolina North Dakota Ohio
Oklahoma Rhode Island South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee West Virginia
Wisconsin Wyoming
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SALARY SUPPLEMENTS Alabama Arkansas
California Connecticut Delaware Florida
Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Iowa
Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland
Massachusetts Mississippi Missouri Montana
Nevada New York North Carolina Ohio
Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Virginia
Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
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LICENSE PORTABILITY Alabama Arizona Arkansas
California Colorado Delaware District of
Columbia Florida Georgia Guam
Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky
Maine Michigan Mississippi Montana Nevada
New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New
York North Carolina Oklahoma Oregon
Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Utah
Virginia Washington West Virginia Wyoming
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http//www.NBPTS.ORG The ODE will support the
full fee for approximately 500 teachers ???
Ohio Candidate Subsidy Program Administrator
JUDITH MONSEUR NBPTS Ohio Coordinator/Educatio
nal Consultant Ohio Department of Education
65 S Front Street Room 1009 Columbus, OH
43215-4183 FAX [phone]
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Ohio -- Individuals will receive an annual award
of 2,500 for the life of the certificate. ODE
-- Ohio teachers who completes the NBC
process will have their license renewed
automatically. Ohio is home to 1790 National
Board Certified Teachers Cincinnati -- annual
base salary supplement of 1,000 to any teacher
achieving NBCT may obtain an additional
4,500-5,500 salary increase.
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• NBPTS http//www.NBPTS.ORG/
• The Wright State Support System
• 90 CANDIDATES
• 14 COUNTIES
• 38 CERTIFICATES

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About the National Board Certification
Assessment

• Provides extensive professional development
  experience
• Measures accomplished teaching
• Provides opportunity for reflection about
  excellent teaching practices

It is an opportunity to examine your practice,
a chance to reflect on what you are doing or not
doing. -Anne Poplin, NBCT, Adolescence and Young
Adulthood/English Language Arts, South Carolina
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About the National Board Certification
Assessment
Facilitation

• SCHOOL-SITE PORTFOLIO
• Show evidence of teaching practice through
• Student work and knowledge
• Videotapes of classroom interaction
• Written commentaries

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How Can National Board Certification Help
Teachers ?
National Board Certification prompted me to be
more reflective in my teaching practice. I know
that this reflective process made me a better
teacher for my students. -Maria Telesca, NBCT,
Middle Childhood/Generalist, Illinois
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National Board Certified Teachers

• Mentor new teachers and help decrease high
  turn-over rates
• Are effective role models
• Lead professional development activities
• Provide a measure of teacher quality that can
  inspire and excite the school community

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How Can National Board Certification Help
Principals ?
Having someone in your school model effective
teaching is wonderful. National Board
Certification makes teachers more aware of their
teaching style and ability. -Phyllis Brown,
Principal, New York
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How Can National Board Certification Help
Parents ?
All three of my children have benefited from
having a National Board Certified Teacher. The
results were noticeable - my children had better
results in the classroom when the teacher was an
NBCT. -Yvette Slocum, Parent and PTA School
District President, Tupelo, Miss.
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The Wright Connection
NBPTS GALA CELEBRATION
700 PM WSU STUDENT UNION SEPTEMBER TO
CELEBRATE THE COMPLETION OF THE CANDIDACY
OF NBPTS PROCESS
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NBPTS Gala
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NBPTS Gala
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NBPTS Gala
Wright State University
Ohio Department of Education
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Working Toward Solutions
National Board Certified Teachers

• Using the National Board Standards as Indicators
  of Quality Teaching

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The National Boards mission is to advance the
quality of teaching and learning by

• maintaining high and rigorous standards for what
  accomplished teachers should know and be able to
  do,
• providing a national voluntary system certifying
  teachers who meet these standards, and
• advocating related education reforms to
  integrate National Board Certification in
  American education and to capitalize on the
  expertise of National Board Certified Teachers.

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What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do

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

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What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do

• Teachers are responsible for managing and
  monitoring student learning.
• Teachers think systematically about their
  practice and learn from experience.

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What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do

• Teachers are members
• of learning communities.

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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• Improving staff development requires empowering
  educators to develop new models for integrating
  learning into all aspects of the school.
  Effective staff development, researchers say, is
• Results-driven and job-embedded
• Focused on helping teachers become deeply
  immersed in subject matter and teaching methods
• Curriculum-centered and standards-based
• Sustained, rigorous, and cumulative and
• Directly linked to what teachers do in their
  classrooms.
• --A National Plan for Improving Professional
  Development, Dennis Sparks Stephanie Hirsh
  http//nsdc.org/educatorindex.htm, accessed
  2/14/03

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Standards

• Professional Development and Outreach
• Reflective Practice
• Contributing to the Profession and to Education

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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• How are the standards integrated into the NBPTS
  assessments?

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Assessment Structure

• PORTFOLIO
• 3 classroom-based entries
• 1 documented accomplishments entry (family,
  community, professional)
• ASSESSMENT CENTER
• 6 exercises (30 minutes each)
• focus on content

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Portfolio Entries

• Assessment Informs Instruction
• Fostering Communications Development
• Enhancing Social Development
• Documented Accomplishments
  (profession/family/community)

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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• Entry 1 Assessment Informs Instruction

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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• Looking at a portfolio entry
• What will you be expected to do?
• Where are the standards?
• What will you send to NBPTS?
• How will it be scored?
• What kinds of instruction are suitable for this
  entry?
• What is the professional development value of
  this entry?

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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• Looking at scoring materials
• What counts?
• Qualitative statements
• Rubrics
• Guided reflection
• Wholistic scoring

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At the Center of it All Improved Student
Learning
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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• How can the standards inform professional
  development?

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Using the Standards

• Needs assessmentprofessional development
• Goal-setting
• Formal and informal study
• Teacher introspection
• Continuous improvement

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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• Staff development is the key to effective
  teaching and improved child performance. Quality
  staff development is a priority for all
  instructional staff who have an impact on child
  learning
• Implementing IDEA A Guide for Principals, CEC,
  2001
• http//www.ideapractices.org/implement.pdf

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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• Documenting progress toward meeting standards

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Professional Learning Communities
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Models of best practice
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Graduate School of Education, University of
California--Irvine http//www.gse.uci.edu/nbc/inde
x.html
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Mississippi World Class Teaching Program,
http//www.educ.msstate.edu/wctp/index.html,
accessed 2/19/03
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Redesign of Masters Degrees

• How does an IHE get started in redesigning an
  advanced masters degree program using National
  Board Standards as its benchmarks?
• What are some ways that IHEs have used National
  Board Standards and processes as benchmarks to
  redesign their advanced masters programs?

--Using National Board Standards to Redesign
Masters Degrees for Teachers, Joan Packer
Isenberg http//www.nbpts.org/pdf/he_monograph_200
3.pdf accessed 3/2/03
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Assessing the Results

• Develop rubrics based on the standards.
• Look at multiple dimensions of student
  performance over time.
• Use multiple forms of evaluation for professional
  development use the evaluation to plan future PD.

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Assessing the Results

• Seek out and replicate successful delivery
  models, where teaching is aligned with NBPTS
  standards.
• Look at positive shifts in classroom and school
  cultures where NBCTs are present.
• Follow the progress of research endeavors
  relating to NBPTS initiatives.

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Assessing the Results

• Look at performance data on graduates of
  NBPTS-aligned teacher education programs.
• Support teachers to participate in National Board
  Certification when ready.
• Use NBCTs as collaborators in teacher education
  collaborate in classroom programs with teachers.

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National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards

• The National Board is vital to the professions
  effort to create standards and assessments that
  will apply to all professionals who work in
  education To become a good P-16 teacher one must
  immerse yourself in what NBPTS is doing.
• --David Imig, President/CEO
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher
  Education, Washington, D.C.

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Contact Information

• National Board for
• Professional Teaching Standards
• Website www.nbpts.org
• Phone 1-800-22 TEACH

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National Board for Professional Teaching
StandardsTM (NBPTS)