NBPTS has exerted substantial spillover effects on the standards-based teacher education reform as well as education reform in the US. NBPTS is an independent organization established in 1987 as the first professional body to set standards for the advanced certification of veteran teachers. The Board\'s standards have been used to guide the work of INTASC, a group of more than 30 states working together in “National Board-compatible” licensing standards and assessments for beginning teachers both before they enter teaching and during their first two years on the job. This effort, in turn, has informed the work of the NCATE which has recently incorporated the performance standards developed by INTASC for judging preservice teacher education programs. Thus these sets of interlocking standards create a developmental continuum for teachers, from preservice teacher education through licensing, induction, advanced study and ongoing professional development. The standards developed by the NBPTS, INTASC and NCATE are linked to the new student standards developed by professional associations such as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics(NCTM). In this study NBPTS was explored with focus on inservice and preservice teacher education. Regarding inservice education which is the main area of NBPTS, the mission, philosophical context, certification framework, assessment, effects of the NBPTS certificate on teachers, benefits & latent problems that many be related with the result of the use of NBPTS were examined. Concerning preservice education, the number of teacher education institutions using NBPTS standards in one way or other and the research studies dealing with preservice teacher education were explored.