National Board Maintenance of Certification (MOC):�Here We Grow Again!

Hello!

Dr. Melissa Shields, NBCT (2000, 2010, 2020)

mshields@alsde.edu

@mjshields

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Outcomes for Today’s Session

• Review the Logistics of MOC
• Reconnect with Core Propositions & Standards
• Explore Components 1 and 2
• Provide Additional Considerations and Tips

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Housekeeping

PowerSchool information:

• Section number is 429961. Direct Link: https://alsde.truenorthlogic.com/ia/empari/learning2/registration/presentRegistrationDetails/429961

Sign-in link:

• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUDMFMjZ6_cqrsiXjwhCpGFE1-4oUd-EvNlaJSf_rN30gXgQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

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MOC Logistics

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Resources to Get Started

• NBPTS Docs
• Guide to Maintenance of Certification (2021)
• Maintenance of Certification (2021) – This one includes all of the instructions.
• NBPTS Content Standards
• Parent/Student Permission Forms

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Vocabulary

• MOC - Maintenance of Certification

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• PGE - A Professional Growth Experience is an activity in which you learn something new that has influence within or beyond the classroom and has a DIRECT or INDIRECT on student learning.

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• SOP - Samples of Products, which are documents used as evidence to provide clarification and/or enhancement of the PGE

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Maintenance of Certification, NOT RE-Certifying

• You are keeping your certificate active – not recertifying.
• MOC measures how you, as an NBCT, have continued to grow in your professional experiences, with a focus on positively impacting student learning.
• This means you are providing evidence that your teaching practice still exemplifies your certificate area standards, the Architecture of Accomplished Teaching, and the NBPTS Five Core Propositions.
• Remember, you’ve already demonstrated that you are an accomplished teacher.

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What your peers are saying?

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Evaluation

• All components and reflection are evaluated as one entity.
• Evidence comes from both components and is collected against the scoring criteria which are directly from the rubric.
• You will receive their decision—rather than a score—that you are either maintaining or not maintaining certification in the fall.
• If you receive a decision that you are not maintaining certification, you will also receive feedback, indicating one or more aspects of your submission that need strengthening.

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Non-Negotiables

• NBCTs must complete MOC in their original certificate area, beginning in Year 4 or 5 of certification.
• MOC requires you to document your professional accomplishments every five years in order to keep your certification current and valid. This timeline is aligned with the five-year renewal period found in a majority of state licensure systems.
• Teaching license must be current.
• If NBPTS certificate expires, teacher must complete entire process to regain NBCT status.
• Update your “My Profile” in your NBPTS account.
• Meet all deadlines for registration, payment, and submission.

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Maintenance of Certification Calendar

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MOC Important Dates and Deadlines

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Reconnecting to Accomplished Teaching

Understanding How It All Impacts Student Learning

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Component One

Deep Dive

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Component One

• 4 pages of Written Commentary per PGE
• Written Commentary must be submitted in provided template
• 2 pages of Samples of Products (SOP) per PGE
• 12 pages total

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Professional Growth Experiences�

• PGEs should show…
• New learning (ongoing, evolving, and varied)
• Influence within or beyond the classroom
• Direct or indirect impact on student learning
• Both PGEs must show professional growth of the original certification area

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Read pages 4-8 in the MOC Instructions for more details on PGEs.

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Select PGEs that allow you to showcase not just your accomplishments, but what you did—what steps you took, what milestones you achieved—to reach that level of accomplishment.

For each PGE Written Commentary, a candidate is required to answer these five questions:

1. Provide a context of the professional situation that indicates what need(s) of students, the professional community, parents/guardians, and/or yourself you are addressing with each PGE.
2. Describe each PGE and how each of your PGEs demonstrates a response to the identified need(s).
3. In the context of each of your PGEs, explain how you have acquired and deepened your certificate area-specific content knowledge and/or your pedagogical knowledge and skills to remain current, including use of research and/or use of other professional activities.
4. Analyze ways in which each of your PGEs and related activities positively impacted student learning whether directly or indirectly.
5. Reflect on each of the PGEs presented, and on changes, additions, and/or next steps that would enhance your professional growth in the future.

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• There are 4 other prompts.
• They can be addressed anywhere within the two PGEs.
• They may be addressed in both, but not required.

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Other Prompts to Be Addressed

6. Describe how you have effectively integrated technology in your practice.
7. Explain how you have ensured fairness and equity of access, and promoted appreciation of diversity among the students and the learning community.
8. Explain how your interaction with colleagues, other professional groups, parents, and/or community members has enhanced your professional growth.
9. In the broader context of your PGEs and your practice, analyze patterns or themes that have emerged that define you as an educator, as you reflect on your professional growth since certification.

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What are some PGE examples?

• Parent Involvement
• PLCs
• Remote Instruction
• Leadership
• Trauma-Sensitive Instruction
• Differentiated Instruction/ RTI

• Learning Supports
• Small Groups
• Collaborative Teaching
• STEM
• Guided Math
• ESL Strategies
• What Else?

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Other Examples of PGEs

• obtain a grant for and implement a special project in your school
• organize family or community activities related to supporting students or providing equitable access to education
• provide mentoring, coaching, or other training to new teachers on an ongoing basis
• play a significant role in special projects at the school, district, or higher level that had a positive impact on students
• perform a needs analysis for instructional resources and develop a plan based on the results
• conduct research that led to changes in your or others’ instructional practice
• collaborate with colleagues, community members, and/or families to meet the needs of students
• create a website that is actively used by students and families to facilitate regular communication between school and home

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MOC Instructions, page 4

Examples of Samples of Products (SOPs)

Appropriate types of evidence may include, but are not limited to the following:

• student work products (e.g., examples of students’ writing, artwork, self-reflections on their learning, three-dimensional work products)
• photographs of non-text student work (e.g., artwork, engineering design product) or of students engaged in learning activities
• student test scores or other measures of students’ performance
• testimonials from teachers or other staff regarding outcomes related to implementation of training/mentoring you have provided
• emails from students’ families
• quantitative or qualitative data related to student engagement or attitudes toward learning
• attendance and/or graduation rates
• data related to use of resources (e.g., library, technology) in support of student learning
• an excerpt or screenshot of a website, a blog, or an article or paper that you wrote or created
• a summary of the outcomes of a project you worked on or implemented
• feedback from a training you led

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MOC Instructions, page 8

Example of Component 1 Organizer

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16kgXIL0ATV9p9XIlux-VwhmAerG8fx3t/edit

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Component Two

Deeper Dive

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Component Two

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Video

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10 Minute Max

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Written Commentary

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No More than 5 Pages

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Component 2 Video

• Class must be that of original certification
• Can be recorded no earlier than September 1 in the year prior to your first year of MOC eligibility (two years before your certificate expires)
• Can be segmented into 3 parts (10 minutes max)
• Must be date stamped (or have attestation form)
• Must show you and your students together in at least one segment, your students interacting with one another, your students’ reactions to what you are doing, and their engagement in learning

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Component Two

Video Graphic Organizer

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Capture the Evidence

• Learning Environment
• Student Engagement
• Instruction

MOC Instructions, pages 20-25, 27

Component Two Prompts

1. How has your learning or professional growth, as described in the PGE, been applied in this lesson?
2. For the featured lesson, what were your goals, and how did they fit into the broader context of learning for these students?
3. Why is this instruction important for these students at this particular point in time?
4. How did you ensure fairness and equity of access, and promote appreciation of diversity among the students?
5. How does the video recording reflect your certificate-specific content knowledge?
6. Explain the impact of your teaching on student learning. Cite specific examples from the video recording and identify what they illustrate.
7. Reflecting on the activity presented in the video, discuss any changes and/or additions that would have enhanced student learning.
8. Reflecting on the activity presented in the video, discuss any changes, additions, and/or next steps that would enhance your professional growth in the future.

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MOC Instructions, page 24

Planning and Reflection Tool

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MOC Instructions, pages 14

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KIXUta5aczJzGmPlBu_aTrK2jrDwApHE/view?usp=sharing

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Ensuring Equity in Instruction

Fairness

• Dedication to awareness of bias and making sure that bias does not lead to injustice, harm, negative impact

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• Fairness is done for all students. All students should have learning environments where biases do not negatively affect them.

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Providing Access

• Access is the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance
• Preference of learning (whole/small groups, individual work, visual, auditory, kinesthetic)
• Peer interactions
• Resources
• Room arrangement
• Lessons taught to all

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Submission

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Format

• One side of an 8.5" × 11" page with 1" margins on all sides counts as 1 page toward your page count totals for your Written Commentaries.
• Use 11-point Arial font. You may use bold or italic to emphasize headings, words, and phrases in the body of your text.
• Double space your text.
• If you use an acronym or an abbreviation in your Written Commentary, spell out the first occurrence.
• Limit use of acronyms and abbreviations to those that are broadly known and commonly used or are field-specific and generally known within the field.
• Materials will be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word, Open Office, or PDF file.

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Component 2

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Written Commentary (up to 5 pages)

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Video (up to 10 minutes)

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MOC Instructions, pages 19 & 25

Anonymity

• Remove student and adult last names.
• First names or “Ms. S.” are acceptable.

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Component 2

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Written Commentary (up to 5 pages)

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Video (up to 10 minutes)

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MOC Instructions, pages 10-11, 19, 23, 25

Helpful Checklists

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MOC Instructions, pages 26-27

Online Submission Platform

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MOC Canvas Course

• Overview of Canvas Course
• How to access the course and resource

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvCgx2WsMz2KR6T5YM7JuJk1md-m0Ovz_rs8V-xCVLI/edit

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Next Steps

• Update your NBPTS My Profile account
• Register/pay fees by deadline - $475 + $75 registration fee
• Download materials
• REVISIT YOUR STANDARDS
• Decide upon your PGEs (often the hardest part!)
• Get Student Release Forms signed
• Coordinate video recording equipment and support

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MOC Support for Alabama NBCTs

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Your Questions

Links from Today’s Discussion

• Slides
• PowerSchool Direct Link
• Sign-in Link
• TechSmith Capture (Click Free Download)
• Remote for Phone (to record)
• Your Questions
• All checklists and graphic organizer links are embedded in earlier slides.

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Connection Cafe

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Connect with others in your certificate area.

Credit and special thanks to…

NBPTS and the MOC Resource Team I collaborated with to provide training and tools for our country’s NBCTs.

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Tanya Hill, NBCT

Tennessee

Dr. Melissa Shields, NBCT

Alabama

Melissa Pearce, NBCT

North Carolina

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Géraldine Duval, NBCT

Maryland

Our NBPTS MOC Webinar Slides

Dr. Melissa Shields, NBCT (2000, 2010, 2020)

mshields@alsde.edu

@mjshields

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