Provide Candiate Support

After achieving National Board Certification®, becoming a candidate support provider is an excellent way to share expertise with current candidates, while continuing to grow as an educator.

Candidates often report that sound candidate support helped tremendously in pursuit of National Board Certification. Support providers help candidates better analyze and reflect on their practice as it relates to the NBPTS Standards.

Candidate support providers encourage and motivate candidates through the best professional development they will ever experience by:

• Promoting candidate ownership of the certification process and their growth as teaching professionals
• Helping candidates understand the certification process including the standards, what it means to demonstrate evidence of the standards in practice, and distinguishing between descriptive, analytical and reflective writing
• Encouraging critical thinking and self-reflection throughout the process

Contact your local coordinator for information about candidate support provider training in your area.