1. TEACHING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT UPDATE
Commission on Teacher Credentialing
TEACHING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT UPDATE
October 2007
Ensuring Educator Excellence

2. What’s New with the Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA)
Statewide Implementation of a Teaching Performance Assessment begins July 1, 2008 (SB 1209)
Alternative TPA models approved by the Commission allowed by SB 2042 and SB 1209

3. What’s New with the Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) (cont.)
Commission TPA model (Cal TPA) will have four tasks:
Subject-Specific Pedagogy
Designing Learning
Assessing Instruction
Culminating Teaching Experience
TPA models provide formative and summative assessment information

4. TPA Models Currently two approved models, including the
CA TPA, and PACT. A third model is under review.
All TPA models require Commission approval
Programs must implement an approved TPA model
All models contain tasks that candidates complete to demonstrate mastery of the Teaching Performance Expectations

5. Teaching Performance Assessment is…
an assessment that requires candidates to demonstrate through their performance with K-12 students that they have mastered the knowledge, skills and abilities required of a beginning teacher, as exemplified in the Teaching Performance Expectations (TPEs).

6. TPA Background
1998
Passage of SB Revision of teacher credentialing standards
Development work on the CA TPA model
2003-present
Implementation delayed due to state budget crisis and requests from the legislature and others
2006
Implementation required by SB 1209 as of July 1, 2008 (Chap. 517, Stats. 2006)

7. Teaching Performance Expectations What a beginning teacher should know and be able to do
A. Making Subject Matter Comprehensible to Students
TPE 1: Specific Pedagogical Skills for Subject Matter Instruction
B. Assessing Student Learning
TPE 2: Monitoring Student Learning During Instruction
TPE 3: Interpretation and Use of Assessments

8. Teaching Performance Expectations (continued)
C. Engaging and Supporting Students in Learning
TPE 4: Making Content Accessible
TPE 5: Student Engagement
TPE 6: Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Practices
TPE 7: Teaching English Learners

9. Teaching Performance Expectations (continued)
D. Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for Students
TPE 8: Learning about Students
TPE 9: Instructional Planning

10. Teaching Performance Expectations (continued)
E. Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
TPE 10: Instructional Time
TPE 11: Social Environment
F. Developing as a Professional Educator
TPE 12: Professional, Legal, and Ethical Obligations
TPE 13: Professional Growth

11. Who is Required to Take a Teaching Performance Assessment?
All candidates in Commission-approved multiple and single subject teacher preparation programs must meet the teaching performance assessment requirement starting in July 2008.

12. Who Must Offer a Teaching Performance Assessment?
All Commission-approved multiple and single subject teacher preparation programs must offer a teaching performance assessment that is embedded within the program for all candidates starting in July 2008.

13. Who Are the Assessors of Candidate Performance?
University teaching faculty, field supervisors, master teachers
K-12 teachers, supervisors, support providers, administrators
Retired faculty, teachers, administrators
Other education professionals

14. CA TPA Performance Scoring
Each task has a specific scoring rubric that describes the characteristics of a candidate’s performance relative to that task
Each rubric has four score levels, ranging from a low of 1 to a high of 4
Scorers (assessors) are trained and calibrated to apply each rubric to candidate performance

15. Use of CA TPA Results Formative information for use by the candidate
Summative information as one basis for the recommendation of a candidate for a credential
Evidence of program effectiveness
Formative information for use in an induction program

16. TPA Questions?
Contact your
Campus College Chair