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NBPTS Scoring Opportunities for Teachers!
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has awarded Pearson a contract to develop, administer, and score its National Board Certification program for accomplished teachers. The NBPTS improves teaching and student learning. National Board Certified Teachers are highly accomplished educators who meet high and rigorous standards. Like board-certified doctors and accountants, teachers who achieve National Board Certification have met rigorous standards through intensive study, expert evaluation, self-assessment, and peer review. NBPTS offers 25 certificates that cover a variety of subject areas and student developmental levels. Assessing for NBPTS is a great professional development opportunity and an invaluable part of the National Board Certification process. As part of the NBPTS scoring staff, assessors participate in rigorous training so that they can score candidate responses to portfolio or assessment center exercises. NBPTS assessors consistently report that assessing for NBPTS is a great professional development experience. In fact, a survey of NBPTS assessors revealed that 80% said the work was better than other professional development activity, and 64% said they had become more reflective about their own teaching practices. Assessing for NBPTS provides an opportunity for in-depth interaction with colleagues and an opportunity to learn ways to positively transfer enhanced teaching practices to the classroom and to peers. The work is challenging, but extremely important in its implications for the teaching profession and ultimately for the improvement of student learning. Teachers working with NBPTS command the highest levels of pedagogical and subject matter expertise. If you are interested in becoming an NBPTS Assessor and meet the requirements, please email us at ScoreNBPTS@pearson.com with “NBPTS” and your location (city, state) in the subject line. In the body of your email, please let us know how you meet the requirements. You will be contacted by HR for further discussion. Projects are planned for the summer of 2010 at most of our scoring sites. Site-specific schedules will be posted under "NBPTS - How to Apply" when they become available. Until then, the 2009 schedules will be left there for information purposes only. 2010 schedules may or may not be similar.
To view the 25 areas of assessment, CLICK HERE. Assessor candidates must meet the following eligibility and experience requirements:
Eligibility Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- Valid teaching license or school counselor license/certificate if required by your state
- Minimum of three years of teaching or school counseling experience in a pre-K - 12 setting
- Not be a current or non-achieving candidate for National Board Certification
Experience Requirements:
- NBCTs: You must hold a valid and unexpired certificate as a NBCT in the certificate area in which you are applying to assess
- New applicants: You must currently be working at least halftime in the certificate area you are applying to assess.
- Returning/experienced assessors: You must currently be working at least halftime in the certificate are you are applying to assess and successfully completed service as an assessor.
- Retired or reassigned teachers: You must have previously successfully served as an assessor within the past three years and be within a three-year window of having worked as a pre-K-12 classroom teacher in the certificate area you are applying to assess and have at least three years of experience in the certificate area you are applying to assess.
For more information on the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, please visit their website at www.nbpts.org.
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