9.0 North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards (NCPTS)

The 1996 General Assembly established the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards Commission in Statute 115C-295.1 .  The purpose of the commission is to establish standards for North Carolina teachers.  The Commission is authorized to do the following:  develop and recommend to the State Board of Education professional standards for teachers, review the areas of teacher certification, consider current methods to assess teachers and teaching candidates, and evaluate, develop and recommend to the State Board procedures for the assessment and recommendation of candidates for initial and continuing teacher certification.  The work of the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards Commission has resulted in the writing of Core Standards for All Teachers in North Carolina (NCPTS: http://www.ncptsc.org/Final%20Standards%20Document.pdf), Standards for Working Conditions in North Carolina Schools (http://www.ncptsc.org/TWC.htm), and Professional Development  Standards.   

The North Carolina State Board of Education (SBE) Mission states:  Every public school student will graduate from high school, globally competitive for work and life in the 21st Century.  To achieve this mission the SBE charged the North Carolina Professional Teaching Commission to align core standards for all teachers with this mission.  The NCPTS were the result of this charge and were formally adopted by the SBE in June 2007.  These standards are now the basis for teacher evaluation and professional development and in 2010 will be the basis for teacher preparation in North Carolina.

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