Input from NAME members has been requested! The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) announces the public review period for Early Childhood Generalist Standards and Middle Childhood Generalist Standards.
NBPTS Standards reflect the Five Core Propositions that are the foundation of National Board Certification; identify specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes that support accomplished practice, while emphasizing the holistic nature of teaching; illustrate how a teacher’s professional judgment is reflected in action; and describe how the standards come to life in different settings.
The Early Childhood Generalist Standards and the Middle Childhood Generalist Standards will be available for public review August 11?September 1, 2010.
The standards can be accessed at:
Early Childhood: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ecgen
Middle Childhood: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mcgen
Please visit the NBPTS website for information on standards development. For assistance or additional information about the public review process, please contact NBPTS at nominations@nbpts.org
In response to the bill signed by Governor of Arizona on May 11, 2010 banning ethnic studies in the public schools of Arizona, NAME has issued a press release expressing the organization’s outrage that the bill passed. NAME believes the bill flies in the face of research on textbooks and multicultural curricula, research on U.S. history, and the track record of Tucson’s Mexican American/Raza Studies department to successfully educate Mexican American students.