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Nine
teachers earn profession’s top honor
Nine classroom
teachers from South Dakota are among the 7,289 elementary and
secondary school teachers nationwide to achieve National Board
Certification in 2005. This achievement brings the total number
of National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) in South Dakota to
41. The national total is 47,503.
“These teachers are leaders in their profession and
deserve praise for their dedication to student achievement,”
said Dr. Rick Melmer, secretary of the South Dakota Department
of Education. “The Department of Education is pleased to support
their efforts.”
South Dakota’s 2005 recipients include:
- Christine Cope, Literacy:
Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood, Harrisburg
School District
- Nancy Hallenbeck,
Generalist/Middle Childhood, Sioux Falls School District
- Louise Lindskov,
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood, Timber Lake School
District
- Nichole Melius, Career and
Technical Education/Early Adolescence through Young
Adulthood, Faulkton School District
- Mandie Menzel, Career and
Technical Education/Early Adolescence through Young
Adulthood, Dupree School District
-
Laura
Raeder, Social Studies – History/Adolescence and Young
Adulthood, Sioux Falls School District
-
Kelly
Rotert, Generalist/Middle Childhood, Huron School District
-
Sharla
Steever, Generalist/Middle Childhood; Hill City School
District
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Stephanie
Williams, English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young
Adulthood, Wall School District
National Board Certification is one
of the highest credentials in the teaching profession. A
voluntary process established by the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), certification is
achieved through a rigorous, performance-based assessment that
typically takes more than a year to complete and measures what
accomplished teachers should know and be able to do. The process
requires teachers to demonstrate how their activities improve
student achievement.
Studies confirm the effectiveness of NBCTs. Research by Arizona
State University found that students of NBCTs outperformed
students of non-NBCTs on the Stanford-9 Achievement Test, with
learning gains equivalent on average to spending more than an
extra month in school each year. Research by the University of
Washington and the Urban Institute found that students of NBCTs
experienced year-end testing improvements that averaged 7 to 15
percent more than peers whose teachers were not NBCTs.
For more information about studies that confirm the
effectiveness of NBCTs, visit
www.nbpts.org.
To learn more about National Board Certification, contact Roxie
Thielen, South Dakota Department of Education, (605) 773-4669.
roxie.thielen@state.sd.us |
