EDU-NB802: A Professional Community of Accomplished Teachers

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
15

Overview

This course develops the knowledge and skills necessary to complete Entry 4 and prepare for the Assessment Center exercises in the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification process. Content focuses on identifying professional activities that demonstrate candidates’ work with families and communities, as leaders and collaborators, and as learners. Additional focus is placed on examining and responding to released Assessment Center prompts in an effort to prepare for the Assessment Center exercises.

The course project, Documented Accomplishments: Identifying Professional Accomplishments and Their Impact on K-12 Student Learning, requires candidates to identify accomplishments and provide documentation for those accomplishments (in preparation for Entry 4 of the NBPTS). Candidates will describe individual accomplishments, telling why each is significant, and explain the impact that each accomplishment has on K-12 student learning. The project will also include prompts and responses candidates create to simulate the Assessment Center portion of the certification process.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge and application of content area standards and accomplished teaching standards of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
  • Document professional activities associated with being a leader and collaborator, with families and community and as a leaner.
  • Describe, analyze and reflect on personal involvement in professional learning communities and its impact on student learning.
  • Investigate how knowledge is constructed in various content areas
  • Construct and respond to prompts that assess content-area knowledge and pedagogical understanding of how to address student misconceptions in those content areas.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Special Requirements

Students will need to provide documentation of their accomplishment(s) in module assignments. Scanned documentation is encouraged to be included as part of the assignment submission.

Required Texts
EDU-NB802 texts are available from the JIU/Follett Bookstore