National Certification: What's New? As of January 1. 2010, you will need to do the following in order to become a certified teacher in your area of expertise. Make a video of yourself teaching a student, including presenting a new piece of music.
Warren Tate has agreed to help any technically challenged teacher set up the dquipment. It is recommended that you take several lesson segments with various students so you have footage to choose from. Testing is the other big change. You will not be tested or proctored by another person. Rather, you will have a teacher profile to complete and send in. It will include analysis of music and how you would explain it to a student. There will be theory and music history questions, as well. There are five projects. The bottom line is, can this person explain what needs to be done to make music on a given instrument? Do they have broad enough knowledge to share with the student so that their students are well-rounded musicians? The details can be viewed on the MTNA website. Peggy McNeill, Certification Chairman From the MTNA website: Certification is a process that validates an individual's qualifications for a specific field of professional practice. It demonstrates to employers, clients, and peers that which the individual knows and is able to do. It signifies commitment to continued excellence in professional practice. In addition, it increases visibility, builds credibility, provides a goal for personal professional achievement and validates expertise for the individual and to those outside the field. The MTNA Professional Certification program exists for teachers who teach music to students of any age level in private or group settings. The program is based upon a set of five standards defining what a competent music teacher should know and be able to do:
Upon fulfillment of these standards, applicants are granted the MTNA Professional Certification credential with the designation, Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM). The credential and designation are granted without bias, discrimination, or favoritism between MTNA members and/or non-members or any other arbitrary differentiation. In order to maintain the MTNA Professional Certification credential and designation, NCTM must continue fulfilling the program's standards through the renewal process. The MTNA Professional Certification program is objectively administered in a uniform manner to ensure fairness, accuracy, validity and integrity. Due process for reconsideration and reinstatement is included in the program for certification candidates, renewal candidates and for those who already hold the MTNA Professional Certification credential.  MTNA Certification information in the Need to Know Binder: file cabinet. |
  
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