National Teacher Certification

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National Teacher Certification or National Board Certification is a special certification that is available to teachers who have at least three years of teaching experience.

National Board Certified Teachers are highly accomplished educators who meet high and rigorous standards.

All 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 700 local school districts recognize National Board Certification as a mark of distinction.

National Board Certification is the most prestigious credential a teacher can earn. Like board-certified doctors and accountants, teachers who achieve National Board Certification have met rigorous standards through study, evaluation, self-assessment and peer review.

Nearly 8,500 teachers achieved National Board Certification in 2007.

States with the highest number of teachers achieving National Board Certification in 2007 were: Florida (1,675), North Carolina (1,442), South Carolina (651), Illinois (511) and Washington (484).

Candidates going for their National Teacher Certification take part in a yearlong assessment of their actual teaching practice. The performance-based assessments require teaching portfolios, which include student work, work samples, videotapes, and thoughtful, written analyses of the candidates’ classroom teaching and of student learning. Candidates also complete a number of timed, written exercises designed to probe the depth of their subject matter knowledge, as well as their understanding of how to teach those subjects to their students. NBC is unique in that it assesses not only the knowledge teachers possess, but the actual use of their skills and professional judgment in the classroom as they work to improve student learning. A candidate’s efforts will likely take the better part of a school year and involve a total of 200-400 hours of work.

The National Teacher Certification fee is $2,565. There are grants available to help offset some of this cost. The Division of Teacher Education and Licensure administers the subsidy grant program that provides subsidy grants to candidates using state and federal funds. The 2005-06 subsidy grant application process is finished with 362 candidates being randomly selected and distributed among the eight superintendents’ regions: 75 candidates received a $2,000 grant; 287 received a $1,000 grant.

Applicants for National Board Certification who use teaching experience in California public schools must be able to verify that they have held, at a minimum, a Preliminary Credential or

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