The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and Stanford University (CA) have formed a partnership to develop a nationally accessible measure for beginning teachers - the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA). This instrument, based on the highly successful Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT), will be made available to states and programs that wish to improve the consistency with which teacher licensure and accreditation decisions are made across states, including the rapidly expanding number and variety of "alternative routes" to licensure. [Read more... ]

TPA State Meeting August 27, 2010

Agenda

PPT slides

TPA prototype
Prototype 1  Cover - page 8
Prototype 2  Pages 9-11
Prototype 3  Pages 12-14
Prototype 4  Pages 15-16
Prototype 5  Pages 17-20
Prototype 6  Pages 21-26
Prototype 7  Pages 27-32

TPA sample Elementary Literacy

TPA sample Mathematics
Math 1  Pages 1-10
Math 2  Pages 11-12
Math 3  Pages 13 & 14 could not be uploaded
Math 4  Pages 15-17
Math 5  Pages 18-31

Feedback

TPAC 2010-11 Pilot Year

Preparing Your Institution for the 2010-11 Pilot Webinar (~1 hr 10 min)

Setting the Stage for a Successful 2011 Pilot Test Webinar (~1 hr 12 min  -- some repeated information from above webinar)

Webinars on TPA tasks

 The links below go to Webinars provided by the Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium (TPAC). They are intended to explain the process used for trying out some of the assessments, providing a look into what teacher candidates will be asked to do.

TPA Questions and Answers

Planning instruction and assessment task (approx 60 minutes)

http://www.icohere-meeting.net/aacte/ED57DD8389

Instructing students and supporting their learning task (approx 45 minutes)

http://www.icohere-meeting.net/aacte/ED58DF8780

Assessing student learning task (approx 50 minutes):

http://www.icohere-meeting.net/aacte/ED58DC8387

TPA handout from a workshop presentation by Mary Trettin and Misty Sato

Workshop 4-23-10

Elementary Literacy handouts

Elementary Assessing Task (1)

Elementary Assessing Task (2)

Elementary Assessing Task (3)

Elementary Task Instructing Students (1)

Elementary Task Instructing Students (2)

Elementary Task Instructing STudents (3)

Elementary Task Planning (1)

Elementary Task Planning (2)

Elementary Task Planning (3)

Secondary English Language Arts handouts

ELA Assessing Task (1)

ELA Assessing Task (2)

ELA Assessing Task (3)

ELA Task Instructing Students (1)

ELA Task Instructing Students (2)

ELA Task Instructing Students (3)

ELA Task Planning (1)

ELA Task Planning (2)

ELA Task Planning (3)

Elementary Mathematics handouts

Elementary Math Assessing Task (1)

Elementary Math Assessing Task (2)

Elementary Math Assessing Task (3)

Elementary Math Instructing Students (1)

Elementary Math Instructing Students (2)

Elementary Math Instructing Students (3)

Elementary Math Planning (1)

Elementary Math Planning (2)

Elementary Math Planning (3)

Secondary Mathematics handouts

Secondary Math Assessing Task (1)

Secondary Math Assessing Task (2)

Secondary Math Assessing Task (3)

Secondary Math Instructing Students (1)

Secondary Math Instructing Students (2) 

Secondary Math Instructing Students (3) 

Secondary Math Planning (1)  

Secondary Math Planning (2)  

Secondary Math Planning (3) 

Secondary Science Assessing Task (1)

Secondary Science Assessing Task (2) 

Secondary Science Assessing Task (3)  

Secondary Science Instructing Students (1)

Secondary Science Instructing Students (2) 

Secondary Science Instructing Students (3)

Secondary Science Planning (1)

Secondary Science Planning (2)

Secondary Science Planning (3)

Sample Parent Guardian Video Consent

Sample Parent Guardian Video Consent

Sample Candidate Release 

Sample Candidate Release