Improving the Quality of Teaching

If you are or will be involved in the National Board Certification process, here’s your “must-have” resource! The author gives you the benefit of her own and 12 other NBCTs’ hands-on experiences with the process and shows you clearly how those involved can develop an increased ability to improve the quality of their teaching.

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This first-of-its-kind resource gives educators a clear understanding of how and why National Board Certification can help them improve their teaching. Berg, a National Board Certified Teacher and doctoral fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education, gives her own and 12 other NBCTs’ hands-on experiences with the process. Well-organized, the book provides practical strategies to support teachers’ growth during their candidacy.

— NEA Today (January 2004)

Jill Harrison Berg’s text, Improving the Quality of Teaching through National Board Certification Theory and Practice, is, undoubtedly, a “must-have” for anyone interested in how to have both improved teaching and improved teachers. In the “Acknowledgements” section, Ms. Berg’s private and professional mission is encapsulated in the few simple, yet profound, words: she hopes to be trained in the “knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be of service to humanity” (p. xv). This book is a vital part of her legacy–for it can change lives and attitudes–if, and only if, the reader is willing to read with his head and his heart and to do more than offer “lip service” to the practical ideas set forth in this book. In short, Berg’s text is a roadmap for empowering teachers.

— Jo Ann Coleman in Teachers College Record, Volume 106, Number 5, 2004, p. 1029-1031