The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is launching a new feature on NBCTLink called Teaching Resources where National Board Certified Teachers across the country can share lessons plans, videos and pictures with one another. The site is open for all 82, 000 NBCTs to post their classroom tips and teaching strategies. NBCTs can access the site by logging into NBCT, and then clicking on Teaching Resources in the blue bar at the top of the Home page.
NBCT Jonathan Gillentine (pictured above) has already posted two lesson plans on the Teaching Resources site. Gillentine is a preschool inclusion teacher from Kaneohe, Hawaii and has been teaching for over 30 years. His lesson plans highlight hands-on ways to teach children about water systems and irrigation.
These same lessons plans helped Jonathan become one of the recipients of the 2010 Zula International-NSTA Early Science Educator Award from the National Science Teachers Association. The award recognizes pre-Kindergarten through second grade teachers who have innovative science inquiry programs in early education.
Gillentine says he submitted his science inquiry lessons for the award because he wanted to help other teachers learn ways to make their classroom more engaging for their students.
“I think that many teachers are hesitant to seek the limelight when it comes to their teaching, Gillentine said. “That is unfortunate in a way, as many teachers have so much to offer their colleagues. I strongly believe that the more we share, the more we grow. That is why I chose to submit my science inquiry lessons for this award, and it has, indeed, been a growing experience.”
Join Gillentine and share your favorite lesson or classroom tip on Teaching Resources.
Questions about the “Teaching Resources” can be sent to nbctlink@nbpts.org.
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Annette Romano, NBCT, Early Childhood Generalist 2001
Annette Romano is in her 23rd year in education and has taught special education, first grade and second grade. She is currently serving as the National Board Coordinator at the Greater Capital Region Teacher Center, where she has served for nine years as a consultant, and has now been a teacher on special assignment for three years.
Annette says that the most impactful thing about the National Board process was that she discovered that she did not really know how to teach science. She was using direct instruction and not using inquiry methods. She says that watching her video for her portfolio enlightened her to find the best way to teach science, so she engaged in collaborative discussion with experts in her building and in the science department in her district. As a result, she turned her lessons upside down, started using inquiry methods in her science and other content areas, which generated great enthusiasm and motivation for her young students.
Annette has been serving as a candidate support provider for many years. She finds that one is never really "done" being a good teacher - being "good" is a constant growing and evolving process. In providing candidate support, she is always learning and thinking about the elements of good teaching, and how the Architecture of Accomplished Teaching is such a good model of that.
Annette is going through her Renewal process this year. She is not in a classroom full time, so she will collaborate with a colleague to work with the students so that she can document her continued growth and commitment in working with students in the early childhood generalist arena.
Collaboration with NBCTs, teacher associations and unions, and school districts across the state of New York has been a focus of Annette’s work. The number of NBCTs has steadily increased in the state because of the type of collaboration that Annette has orchestrated with multiple stakeholders.
NBCTLink Launching Teaching Resource Feature
Annette Romano, NBCT, Early Childhood Generalist 2001