undergraduate
New Teacher Performance Standards
The Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) adopted the New Teacher Standards (NTS) for undergraduate (initial) programs. Please download the following NTS Standards PDF to view the standards adopted June 1993 and Revised November 1994 by The Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board.
Preamble to the New Teacher Standards
The New Teacher Standards describe what first year teachers should know and be able to do in authentic teaching situations and the academic content, teaching behaviors, and instructional processes that are necessary to promote effective student learning. They imply more than the mere demonstration of teaching competencies. They imply a current and sufficient academic content understanding that promotes consistent quality performance on teaching tasks. Authentic teaching tasks provide opportunities and contexts for performances by beginning teachers.
In Kentucky, all teaching and learning tasks address Kentucky's academic expectations. These identify what students need to be successful in the world of the future. Thus, teachers design and implement instruction and assess learning that develops students' abilities to:
1. Use basic communication and mathematics skills in finding, organizing, expressing, and responding to information and ideas.
2. Apply core concepts and principles from science, arts and humanities, and vocational studies.
3. Become a self-sufficient individual who demonstrates high self-esteem, a healthy lifestyle, flexibility, creativity, self-control, and independent learning.
4. Become a responsible group member who demonstrates consistent, responsive, and caring behavior; interpersonal skills; respect for the rights and responsibilities of others; world views; and an open mind to other perspectives.
5. Think and solve problems including the ability to think critically and creatively, develop ideas and concepts, and make rational decisions.
6. Connect and integrate experiences and new knowledge through the curriculum, question and interpret ideas from diverse perspectives, and apply concepts to real-life situations.
