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National Standards:: 2001 National Board for PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS
1: Knowledge of Students: Accomplished teachers understand the cognitive, physical, and social development of young people and the diversity among them, observe them insightfully, and use this information to guide their practice and to form constructive relationships with the students they teach.
2: Valuing Diversity: Accomplished teachers understand that each student brings diverse perspectives to any experience. These teachers encourage all students to know and value themselves and others.
3: Knowledge of Subject Matter: Accomplished teachers draw on a broad knowledge of social studies and history to establish important and challenging instructional goals that engage and empower students, and they plan an integrated curriculum based on the major concepts, themes, principles, relationships, and processes illuminated by history and social studies.
4: Advancing Disciplinary Knowledge and Understanding: Accomplished teachers have a repertoire of strategies and techniques that engage student interest in and advance student understanding of United States History, World History, Economics, Political Science, and Geography.
5: Promoting Social Understanding: Accomplished teachers promote in their students an understanding of how the social aspects of the human condition have evolved over time, the variations in societies that occur in different physical environments and cultural settings, and the emerging trends that seem likely to shape the future.
6: Developing Civic Competence: Accomplished teachers develop in their students the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to be responsible citizens of a constitutional democracy.
7: Instructional Resources: Accomplished teachers select, adapt, and create rich and varied resources for social studies and history and use them productively.
8: Learning environments: Accomplished teachers create and foster for students dynamic learning environments characterized by trust, equity, risk-taking, independence, and collaboration.
9: Assessment: Accomplished teachers employ a variety of assessment methods to obtain useful information about student learning and development and assist students in reflecting on their own progress.
10: Reflection: Accomplished teachers reflect on their practice, on students' performance and on developments in their field to steadily extend their knowledge, improve their teaching, and refine their philosophy of education.
11: Family Partnerships: Accomplished teachers understand and value the distinctive role of parents and guardians, and they continually seek opportunities to build strong partnerships with them.
12: Professional Contributions: Accomplished teachers regularly work with others to foster the growth and development of their colleagues, their school, and their field.