The Portfolio

Document Your Teaching Practice

Through your portfolio you can capture your teaching practice in real-time, real-life settings, thus allowing trained assessors in your field to examine how you translate knowledge and theory into practice.

• What is the Portfolio?
• Portfolio Kit
• Download Your Portfolio Instructions

What is the Portfolio?

Your portfolio of classroom practice consists of four entries:

• One classroom-based entry with accompanying student work
• Two classroom-based entries that require video recordings of interactions between you and your students
• One documented accomplishments entry that provides evidence of your accomplishments outside of the classroom and how that work impacts student learning

Each entry requires some direct evidence of teaching or school counseling as well as a commentary describing, analyzing, and reflecting on this evidence. 

Portfolio Kit

Within three weeks of receipt of your completed application, materials and initial non-refundable $500 fee, NBPTS will send you a Portfolio Kit. This kit includes:

• Forms for verifying your eligibility
• A CD-ROM containing portfolio instructions 
• Bar code labels to be placed on all your submissions as instructed
• Envelopes for use in packaging your materials for submission
• A portfolio box to be used for submitting your materials

Download Your Portfolio Instructions

Download portfolio instructions by selecting a certificate area from the drop down menu below. All documents are in PDF format. If you are unable to open them, please download the latest version of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Web site.

Notice:  We have updated the look and feel of the portfolio instructions.  The substantive content of the instructions has not changed.