california dEFINES THE tpa
"As of July 2008, California statute (Chap. 517, Stats. 2006) requires all candidates for a preliminary Multiple and Single Subject Teaching Credential to pass an assessment of their teaching performance with K-12 public school students as part of the requirements for earning a teaching credential. This assessment of teaching performance is designed to measure the candidate's knowledge, skills and ability with relation to California's Teaching Performance Expectations (TPEs), including demonstrating his/her ability to appropriately instruct all K-12 students in the Student Academic Content Standards. Each of the three approved teaching performance assessment models requires a candidate to complete defined tasks relating to subject-specific pedagogy, designing and implementing instruction and student assessment, and a culminating teaching experience or event. When taken as a whole, teaching performance assessment tasks/activities multiply measure the TPEs. Candidate performances are scored by trained assessors against one or more rubrics that describe levels of performance relative to each task/activity. Each model must also meet and maintain specified standards of assessment reliability, validity, and fairness to candidates. All candidates who start a Commission-approved multiple and single subject teacher preparation program as of July 1, 2008 must meet the teaching performance assessment requirement."
Thanks for the information! I personally have had friends go through the CSUSM program and have heard about the dreaded TPAs. However, I did not really know much about them. The more knowledge I can get about TPAs the better and I know that I will follow your blog in the coming weeks. Generally TPAs seem like they are a useful tool as it standardized credential programs and makes sure all teachers entering the profession are competent. I know that once I start TPAs I will begin to get extremely stressed out about them. It is scary to think that your credential rests on these assignments! Hopefully after I learn more about them I will be less stressed!
ReplyDeleteI’m glad you’re writing about this. I think there are a lot of people entering the credential program who don’t know very much about TPEs. Since I am one of them, I appreciate this information.
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ReplyDeleteThe song is kind of cute but TPA's do seem like a good idea--even if they are a pain and dreaded. Do you know if this type of teacher assessment is also required of existing teachers? If it isn't, it should be. I think teachers should be reevaluated every now and then and given the chance to improve their skills, if need be. I worked with a teacher last year who was a nightmare. She was probably good enough in terms of curriculum but her rapport with students (and aides) was horrendous. She would have benefited tremendously from some training.
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