Institute Work
National Board Certification
- There is a statistically significant difference in the pass-failure rate of those teachers attempting National Board Certification( NBC) who have participated in intensive writing project staff development and/or writing project summer institutes and those teachers who have had little or no writing project experience.
- Eighty-three teacher-consultants who participated in writing project summer institutes completed the process with 77%, or 64 becoming certified.
- Fifty-two teachers participated in intensive writing project professional development and completed the NBC process. Of those, thirty-one (59%) became certified.
- 475 teachers with little or no writing project experience completed the NBC process. Of those, 226 (47%) became certified.
- These data indicate that writing project experience is a significant predictor of success for NBPTS and that the invitational summer institute experience (approximately 110 hrs.) coupled with the continuity provided by teacher- consultants coming out of the invitational summer institute provides a stronger foundation than intensive writing project professional development of 30+ hours.
- While data show that an invitational summer institute experience is more closely tied to certification than participation in intensive professional development, it is clear that one of the two, or a combination of the experiences, show a positive correlation with National Board Certification.
- Learn more about National Board for Certified Teaching Standards certification by visiting their web-site at www.nbpts.org.
