MTNA Certification
The MTNA Professional Certification program exists for teachers who teach music to students of any age level in private or group settings. Check here to learn why getting an MTNA professtional certification. The program is based upon a set of five standards defining what a competent music teacher should know and be able to do:
Standard I: Professional Preparation
Standard II: Professional Teaching Practices
Standard III: Professional Business Management
Standard IV: Professionalism and Partnerships
Standard V: Professional and Personal Growth
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.
Some benefits to becoming an NCTM include an additional way to draw quality students to your studio, a justification for raising lesson fees, eligibility to apply for a professional development grant from the Piano Technicians Guild Foundation, attending NCTM receptions at state and national conventions for networking, and a more structured way of keeping on track with your own professional development and continuing education.
Please see the following link to find out more information about becoming a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music:
Simple Steps to the
Certification Application Process
1. Request
an application packet from MTNA or from
your state certification chair.
Taking
a certification
exam
Completing a certification
portfolio
Getting
administrative
verification (college faculty option)
NJMTA offers a study group for getting your certification portfolio done. If you are interested, please contact Ting Ting Lien for sign-up information. Take a look at the schedule/study plan starting on March 12, 2008.
Simple Steps to Renew your
Certification
There are three documentation
options for NCTM’s to renew your certification.
2.
Documentation through
Portfolio
3.
Administrative
Verification (college faculty option)
You need to renew every five years (by July 1 of the fifth year) and after the third renewal, you will receive your permanent professional certificate. Permanent professional NCTM’s still have to renew every five years, but do not need documentation to do so. Please see the MTNA Certification Website or contact your state certification chair Ting Ting Lien certification@njmta.com for more information on renewal.
Congratulations to Fiorella Araya Cheng, NTCM, Megan Register, NCTM, Karen Hancock, NCTM, Alynn C. Schwiep, NCTM, David J. Leifer and Grace Junghee Yang, NCTM, who have recently become NJ's newly certified teachers. Remember, all NCTM’s can receive renewal points for attending the state and national conventions. Looking forward to seeing you there!
NCTM Pin Presentation at the 2007 Conference Banquet.
AS OF JANUARY, 2007, THE FIRST 10 NJMTA MEMBERS WHO BECOME NEWLY CERTIFIED EACH YEAR MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE A $50 REBATE FROM THE NJMTA BOARD ON THEIR APPLICATION FEE UPON COMPLETION OF THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS.
The Piano Technicians Guild is pleased to announce the creation of TWO $750 scholarships available to MTNA certified members. Click here for details.
Nationally Certified Teachers in New Jersey
| Taubyl Bell | Marvin Blickenstaff | Bing Bing Chang |
| Fiorella Araya Cheng | Ingrid Clarfield | Nancy Dodd |
| Diane Dollak | Shirley Fan | Yun-Yun Feng | Cheryl Goodwin | Louise Goss | Meral Guneyman |
| Jeannine Hamburg | Karen Hancock | Tomoko Harada |
| Jennifer Herring | Anita Juntilla | Margaret Knight |
| Julia Lam | Phyllis Lehrer | David J. Leifer |
| Miriam Lerner | Ting Ting Lien | Kum Foong Teresa Lim |
| Chiu-Ling Lin | Lillian Livingston | Eleanor Ploran |
| Megan Register | Rosalie Schweikert | Alynn C. Schwiep |
| Margaret Sheneman | Kimberly Ann Snyder | Lyndall Soden |
| Deanna Yeo Tan | Kelsy J. Tinsley | Yining Wang |
| Grace Junghee Yang | Cathy Tao Yin | An-Li Young |