Teacher Education Standards

INTASC Model Standards for Beginning Teacher Licensing and Development

The Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium, a program of the Council of Chief State School Officers, has produced core standards for general teacher competencies. This document addresses the knowledge, dispositions and performances deemed essential for all teachers regardless of their specialty area. It is intended to be supplemented by additional standards for each specialty area.

NCATE Current Program Standards (for teacher education)

The National Center For Accreditation of Teacher Education publishes standards for preservice teacher preparation in 16 different disciplines prepared by professional societies in each discipline.

NCATE Program Standards for Elementary Teacher Preparation

The National Center for Accreditation of Teacher Education's standards for teacher candidates as they complete an elementary teacher preparation program in an NCATE accredited school, college or department of education. "These closely follow the ten 'model standards' for teacher licensure from the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)."

NCATE Home Page

The National Center for Accreditation of Teacher Education is the accrediting body for the KSU College of Education.

Draft Kansas Licensure Standards

Draft versions of the standards to be licensed to teach in Kansas. These standards are currently in the comment phase and you may click on the links at the top and bottom of the standards documents to provide feedback to the state board of education about the standards. The General Education Standards cover the general content knowledge expected of all teachers (what math/science/language arts/social studies/fine arts should every teacher know). These may be the only content standards for elementary teachers. The Profession Education Standards cover what every teacher should know about teaching and pedagogy. Drafts of specific content area standards for middle school and high school teachers of math, science, language arts, social studies, and fine arts have been submitted to the state board by the various area committees and should be posted in the future.

Draft CBMS Standards for Mathematics Teacher Preparation

The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences March 2000 Draft standards for the preparation of mathematics teachers.

K-12 Student Standards

Kansas State Standards (for K-12 students)

The official standards of the Kansas State Board of Education for K-12 student achievement in Kansas.

McREL Content Knowledge Standards

Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning has produced a compedium of content area standards and benchmarks for K-12 students based on many dozens of reports from different groups and agencies. Each content area also includes many links to related Internet resources.

NCTM Standards 2000

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics issued their new Principles and Standards for School Mathematics on April 12, 2000. These standards are not yet available through the McREL compedium.

Standards for Experienced Teachers

NBPTS Home Page

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is "to establish high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do, to develop and operate a national, voluntary system to assess and certify teachers who meet these standards and to advance related education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools."

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