Murray examines relationship between TEAC and National Board standards

June 25th, 2010

Frank Murray, president of TEAC, proposes “A Role for NBPTS Standards in Teacher Education Accreditation” in his chapter contribution to a new book, Accomplished Teachers, Institutional Perspectives (NBPTS 2010), that considers ways to expand links between the NBPTS standards and assessment process and teacher preparation, program accreditation, and state licensure.

Murray points out that TEAC accreditation is focused on a program’s quality control system and the quality of the evidence the system yields that graduates have acquired the knowledge, disposition, and skill their academic degrees indicate and that the state license requires for a beginning teacher. He proposes ways the TEAC audit approach to accreditation could enhance the National Board’s examination of evidence of a teacher’s effect on student learning.

Other contributors to the book include C. Kent McGuire, dean, College of Education, Temple University; James Cibulka, president, NCATE; Marty Hopkins, professor of education, University of Central Florida; and Richard Navarro, professor of education, California State Polytechnic University. For more information and to view excerpts of the book, visit http://www.nbpts.org/products_and_services/books/accomplished_teachers