Purpose of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards
National Board Certification is the occupation’s label of proficient teaching established by teachers for teachers. It is assembled with National Board Standards and the five core propositions, difficult and performance-based, based on several measures, peer-reviewed, voluntary, valid and reliable. “To date, more than 112,000 teachers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia have achieved National Board Certification” (“National Board Certification”). It is very beneficial for teachers and I think the National Board Certified teachers make better educators.
There are five core propositions that are the base for skilled teaching. Proposition one is “teacher are committed
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NBCTs (National Board Certified Teacher) have certification for the subject or subjects they teach. They have knowledge and experience in teaching it, and they are trained to handle the questions of the students have based on their assumptions in class. They know several different strategies to teach students so they understand better.
Proposition three is “teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning” (“National Board Certification”). NBCTs provide productive instruction. They use techniques to keep the students focused, engaged, and motivated. They know how to make a disciplined learning environment, and also how to put together the instructions so the students will follow them. NBCTs know how to measure the growth of an individual student and the whole class as well. They use various techniques for assessing student growth, and they can explain the parents about students’ performance with
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Students of NBCTs leave behind their co-mates in other classrooms. When the teachers achieve the certificate, they show that they have the skills and knowledge required to improve student education and help them succeed. This certification gives the teachers access to leadership opportunities and career improvement. Also, before accomplishing the certification, teachers can implement the materials they are learning to assist their students every day. Another benefit of the certification is that it lets teachers to move much easily from state to state without any tension because many states relates National Board Certification with state licensure. Many teachers can get continuing education credits as well. NBCTs can also earn a salary for training new
The layout of the CCT Rubric presents a broad view of a skilled teacher, who demonstrates each standard in the CCT, which ensures learning, and achievement in the classroom. The CCT Rubric translates to all teachers, regardless of the subject they teach. The notion is, that if teachers can apply their knowledge and increase student learning and development, they succeed to ensure their students also
According to the American Nurses Association, nursing is defined as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations” (American Nurses Association, 2016). Nurses have many jobs and responsibilities and wear many different hats. Nurses can perform at many different levels depending on their scope of practice which is defined by the board of nursing in one’s state of residence. It is important as nurses to understand and follow
This certification will strengthen as well as show potential employers an intiative towards personal growth as well as professional achievement. To be specialized in a particular area of this field, one must amass knowledge by going through continuing education programs, formal coursework, self-study, and clinical experience. Then, you must successful pass a certification exam, which will then show their recognition of expertise. There are two programs, The National Association of Practical Nurse Education and Service (or NAPNES) and National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses (or NFLPN), that offer certification courses in such areas as: infection control, nursing administration long term care, hospice and palliative, managed care, among
To teach to the test or trust the child; is the question in today’s education. Over the past twenty years state curriculum standards have changed. Teachers need to make the choice on how to teach the children in their classroom. In today’s society where testing runs the educational world, a teacher must decide how to prepare students for standardized testing.
National Council for the State Boards of Nursing, APRN background, (2012). Report of the nursing policy and legislative efforts. Retrieved from https://www.ncsbn.org/428.htm#Nurse_Practitioner_Certification
The American Board of Nursing Specialties describes certification as the proper acknowledgment of specialized skills, knowledge, and practice demonstrated by the accomplishment of standards outlined by a nursing specialty. The certification associated with specialty practice regularly functions as a professional landmark. Validation by an outside source endorses that an individual has met the established national standards. When an advanced practice nurse prepares to become certified in his/her specialty there must be proper preparation in order to be successful.
A Certified Nursing Assistant has a very demanding job. It drains a person's physical strength by lifting residents but, it can drain the worker of emotions as well because of the loss, pain, and abandonment surrounding many residents. I am a Certified Nursing Assistant and I believe the hardest part of my job is getting attached to a resident as they pass away. The death of a resident leaves preparing their body the Certified Nursing Assistant's responsibility so their families can say goodbye and the funeral director can take them to the funeral home. The whole process takes a minuscule amount of time, thirty minutes or less, once someone knows the process. However, the body needs respect and care even after death.Preparing a body is emotional for the worker and the family. Start by gathering the supplies to prepare the body. First,
Several of the major reform initiatives of the 1980s and early 1990s argued that improving education requires improving teacher quality and, accordingly, teacher education. Numerous changes in teacher recruitment, preparation, and certification were proposed. (For a detailed list, see Hartley, Mantle-Bromley, and Cobb 1996.) In response to the calls for reform, general teacher education programs raised admission standards/exit requirements; revised curricula to reflect multiculturalism and new K-12 standards; paid more attention to pedagogy, teaching practice, and relevance; included clinical experiences in public schools and other learning environments; and proposed new model standards/principles for licensing beginning teachers (Lynch 1997).
National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. (2007). Professional standards for the accreditation of schools, colleges, and departments of education. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from: http://www.ncate.org
Throughout high school and during my undergraduate studies, education was never a top priority for me. Only during the past two years, in the "real world", have I realized the importance of education. I look back at those years and wish I had done more and realized all the potential I had in my hands and not wasted so much time. During my undergraduate career my social activities consumed my life. My friends were not motivated to do well in school so I followed their lead. My grades were low, and I did not even care. After I graduated in 1997 with a Psychology B.A. and lost touch with my old friends and old ways, I have realized that I should have spent more time doing some soul searching and thinking what it was that I wanted to do with my life. I liked Psychology but what I really wanted to do was work with children more closely. I had spent my junior and senior years involved in internships at Head Start and at a High School in a Program for teenaged mothers. I loved my work there. At Head Start I was a Teacher Aid for the pre-school, teaching the children to read, numbers etc. And at the High School I counseled the teenaged mothers, took care of their kids while they went to school and after the school day I tutored them with their homework. After being out of school for a while, I started to miss that. The feeling that I was teaching something those kids, the feeling that I was making a difference. I was determined to find a job in education, with my background in Psychology, how hard could it be? I found work at a residential school for runaways and abused teenaged females. It was great! I was ready to go, I was going to change the world and change those girls lives. What I didn't realize is that will alone does not make me a teacher and that I needed training, a lot of training. I made a lot of mistakes in that job. I got discouraged and decided to forget about working with children, forget teaching and do something else that paid more. So, I got a job as a Secretary, I did that for about two years. Teaching, working with children was always on my mind.
Standardized testing has taken over the education realm and led to a shift in the institutional goals and values of education. In the last 40 years, standardized exams have changed; they were once used to determine the learning level of students, but now they are being used to determine the teacher’s ability. Standardized tests do not measure education quality and are incorrectly used, leading to the wrongful evaluation of teachers and the limiting of education for students by schools.
Prescott, Norman. "NVQs and teacher training: A chance for cooperation." Education & Training. 37(2): 16-21. 1995
Meaning of the Term “Competency” Competency has its origins in the Latin word 'competentia' which means is authoritative to judge as well as ―has the right to speak‖ (Caupin et al., 2006: 9). The English dictionary defines the word ‘competence’ as the state of being suitably sufficient or fit. Trying to draw a fine line between the words such as proficiency, capability, capacity, competence, competency/ competencies is even more difficult and creates confusion (see examples in Byham & Moyer, 2000; Cooper, 2000; Mirabile, 1997). Those who invested efforts in investigativing competency are immediately struck by the lack of uniform definitions, compositions, and methodologies which, of course, lead to misunderstanding, wandering,
We must have the correct mind-set. We believe our students can learn; have high expectations; are willing to give extra help; find ways to make
Develop teaching expertise is the part of proposition from NBPTS, specifically knowing the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students (1987). One of the methods is continue to pursue their professional development by joining a professional association or organization, attending a workshop, and reading a professional journal, website, or books. These ideas enhance teachers’ cognitive growth by enlarge information of the latest strategies or method, enhance cognitive growth, and learning to help the teachers to become expert in their teaching and influence on student learning.