NBPTS on Teacher Evaluation: Getting it Right
On Monday, October 3rd, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) produced a live webcast to launch its new guide to teacher evaluation, titled Getting It Right. As a National Board Certified Teacher and someone who has worked on producing a similar policy guide on teacher evaluation (see Publications, above), I tuned in to see what the National Board had to say. After all, no organization has a clearer picture of what quality teaching really should look like: NBPTS has produced comprehensive and richly detailed teaching standards that provide the foundation to offer twenty-five different board certifications. The standards are developed and updated by teams of teachers from around the country, and they put in many days of work individually and collectively to provide the best available standards for professional teaching practices. NBPTS has certified over 91,000 teachers and counselors who have proven themselves effective to trained evaluators, and in research commissioned by the U.S. Congress.
Governor Bob Wise, with Linda Darling-Hammond, at the NBPTS 2011 Conference, July 29, 2011. (photo by the author)
The webcast featured the following individuals:
- Governor Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education, Chair, NBPTS Board of Directors