The document outlines the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards (NCPTS) and how they relate to the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). It discusses the six NCPTS standards which address teachers demonstrating leadership, establishing a respectful learning environment, knowing the content they teach, facilitating learning, reflecting on their practice, and contributing to academic success. It also lists the key ISTE NETS-T standards which focus on facilitating and inspiring student learning, designing digital assessments, modeling digital work and learning, promoting digital citizenship, and engaging in professional growth.

1. NC Professional Teaching
Standards
and ISTE NETS-T
BY
Ms. Brinkley

2. Teachers demonstrate leadership
• NCPTS.I - Teachers demonstrate leadership.
• NCPTS.I.a - Teachers lead in their classrooms.
• NCPTS.I.b - Teachers demonstrate leadership in the school.
• NCPTS.I.c - Teachers lead the teaching profession.
• NCPTS.I.d - Teachers advocate for schools and students.
• NCPTS.I.e - Teachers demonstrate high ethical standards.

3. Teachers establish a respectful environment
for a diverse population of students
• NCPTS.II - Teachers establish a respectful environment for a diverse population of
students.
• NCPTS.II.a - Teachers provide an environment in which each child has a positive,
nuturing
• relationship with caring adults.
• NCPTS.II.b - Teachers embrace diversity in the school community and in the
world.
• NCPTS.II.c - Teachers treat students as individuals.
• NCPTS.II.d - Teachers adapt their teaching for the benefit of students with special
needs.
• NCPTS.II.e - Teachers work collaboratively with the families and significant adults
in the
• lives of their students.

4. Teachers know the content they teach
• NCPTS.III - Teachers know the content they teach.
• NCPTS.III.a - Teachers align their instruction with the North Carolina
Standard Course of
• Study.
• NCPTS.III.b - Teachers know the content appropriate to their teaching
specialty.
• NCPTS.III.c - Teachers recognize the interconnectedness of content
areas/disciplines.
• NCPTS.III.d - Teachers make instruction relevant to students.

5. Teachers facilitate learning for their students
• NCPTS.IV - Teachers facilitate learning for their students.
• NCPTS.IV.a - Teachers know the ways in which learning takes place, and they know the
• appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of their
• students.
• NCPTS.IV.b - Teachers plan instuction appropriate for their students.
• NCPTS.IV.c - Teachers use a variety of instructional methods.
• NCPTS.IV.d - Teachers integrate and utilize technology in their instruction.
• NCPTS.IV.e - Teachers help students develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• NCPTS.IV.f - Teachers help students work in teams and develop leadership qualities.
• NCPTS.IV.g - Teachers communicate effectively.
• NCPTS.IV.h - Teachers use a variety of methods to assess what each student has
• learned.

6. Teachers reflect on their practice
• NCPTS.V - Teachers reflect on their practice.
• NCPTS.V.a - Teachers analyze student learning.
• NCPTS.V.b - Teachers link professional growth to their professional
goals.
• NCPTS.V.c - Teachers function effectively in a complex, dynamic
environment.

7. Teachers contribute to the academic success
of students
• NCPTS.VI - Teachers contribute to the academic success of students.

8. Facilitate and inspire student learning and
creativity
• Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and
inventiveness.
• Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic
problems using digital tools and resources.
• Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and
clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning and
creative processes.
• Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning
with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual
environments.

9. Design and develop digital age learning
experiences and assessments
Teachers design, develop and evaluate authentic, learning experiences
and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to
maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge,
skills and attitudes identified in the standards.

10. Model digital age work and learning
Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative
of an innovative professional in a global and digital society

11. Promote and model digital citizenship and
responsibility
Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities
in a digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their
professional practices

12. Engage in professional growth and leadership
Teachers continually improve their professional practice model lifelong
learning and exhibit leadership in their school and professional
community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital
tools and resources.