BOT: The Minnesota Board of Teaching
An eleven member Board appointed by the Governor and charged by statute with the
licensing of teachers in the state.* The Board includes six classroom teachers, 1 school
administrator, 1 teacher educator, and 3 public members, two of whom
must be current or former local school board members.
*The State Board of Education is responsible for licensing school administrators.
NCATE: National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
NCATE, the sponsor of The New Professional Teacher Project, accredits teacher
preparation institutions. In the forefront of the move towards increasingly rigorous,
performance-related standards for the teaching profession, its governance system
includes 30 constituency groups - teachers, teacher educators, subject matter specialists and policy-makers.
NBPTS: National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Established in 1987 as the first professional body in teaching to set standards for the
advanced certification of licensed teachers, the privately incorporated NBPTS awarded
its first certificates in 1995. The NBPTS's intention is to provide a national voluntary
certification system, leading to better student achievement, and higher pay and
greater autonomy for Board Certified teachers. Certification is seen as complementing
- not replacing - state licensing. As of this year, several teachers in Minnesota have
become Board Certified. Carnegie Corporation helped to establish the organization.
INTASC: Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium
INTASC is a project sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers. The
Consortium was formed in 1987 so that states could share information on such topics
as model standards for licensing teachers, state policies consistent with the work of
the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, performance assessment,
and legal, technical, and cost issues related to professionalization. INTASC has been
funded primarily through the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the U.S.
Department of Education's office of research and now includes some 4O states.
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