| Changes to National Boards Make Certification More Flexible for Teachers |
| posted by: Garry | September 10, 2013, 04:43 PM |
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New policies focusing on new professional development requirements and the economic recession, as well as sequestration and schools’ unwillingness to subsidize board fees, have contributed to a decline in the program. This new direction will be more flexible and reflect the ever-changing teaching profession. “We’ve just learned a lot about best practices in teaching and want to make sure our assessments mirror that,” said Andy Coons, the chief operating officer of the NBPTS. Instead of the current system of 10 components, the new system will only have 4 categories – a teacher’s content knowledge; use of data to meet students’ needs and set goals for them; classroom pedagogy, based on a video analysis; and classroom effectiveness. The new system is already receiving praise among teachers. “I always wished I could have broken it up even more,” Washington State teacher Maren Johnson wrote on her blog. “It was quite an uneven split between one [portfolio] entry one year and three entries plus the assessment center the second year!” Mr. Coons emphasized that the new certification system is, “an opportunity for practitioners to weigh in on them, and not have them decided by people who don’t know teaching or teachers.” Do the changes to national board certification make you more likely to obtain certification?
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