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The purpose of the NCATE Speakers Bureau is to assist institutions and states in identifying appropriate speakers for statewide or regional meetings or conferences. When you complete the Speakers Bureau form, NCATE will contact speakers appropriate to the topic you indicated and try to arrange for them to address your meeting.

Learn more about the Speakers Bureau

Complete the Speakers Bureau Form

Read the Speaker’s Guide

Suitable for use on web pages, brochures, course catalogs, stationery, and other appropriate material. Permission is freely given to all accredited institutions so long as use conforms to guidelines for representation of NCATE accreditation to the public.

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Guidelines for Electronic Exhibit Rooms
outlines how to prepare an electronic exhibit room; displays sample exhibit rooms

Institutional Examples

Sample conceptual frameworks

Sample exhibit rooms

Sample Institutional Reports

Below you will find a number of presentations which can be adapted for setting or audience. The first slide of the presentations and the copyright information therein must be retained in any use.

Campaign for Teacher Quality

Presenting NCATE’s Decennial Report

Performance-Based Standards: An Update from NCATE and CEC from Teacher Education Division Annual Conference November 16, 2001

NCATE Unit Standards: What We Learned From the Pilot Institutions from AACTE conference, February, 2002

Institutional Orientations

Creating a Teacher Education Assessment System

Data Collection and Use

Using Technology to Develop Candidate Portfolios Aligned with Standard One

Conceptual Frameworks

Building a Comprehensive Teacher Development System—State by State

NCATE Decision-Making Process

Quality Assessment for Quality Outcomes

NCATE Accreditation 2001 and Beyond

NCATE Unit Standards: August 2001

January 2002 Orientation

NCATE Standards 1 and 2

NCATE Standards 3–6

What NCATE Looks For

State Partnership

State Partnership Information 2001

BOE Training

Conducting Group Interviews

Judging the Quality of Evidence

Transition to a New System

Standards 1–6

Below are a number of links to archived broadcasts relating to NCATE. Appropriate use of the video on websites of accredited institutions and partners is allowed; please link to the orignal host site of the files .

Webcast of Institutional Orientation for Initial Accreditation

“How to Make a Teacher”
Art Wise in discussion on PBS’s “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” July 19, 2001
Requires RealPlayer

Aggregating Data

Aligning Assessments with Standards

Teacher Education and Performance-based Reform

Assessment Systems: An Explanation of the NCATE Transition Plan

Preparing for NCATE 2000 at a Comprehensive Public Institution Using an Electronic Review

Commissioned Papers on Development of Assessment Systems and Aggregating Data

ParenTech
Resources to assist educators incorporate technology into their classrooms

NetDayCompass
Guide to education technology resources

NCATE invites deans and faculty to submit examples of performance-based assessments
Form for Submitting Assessment Examples (PDF 167K)