Teacher Performance Assessment
For this TPA, preservice language arts teachers will describe, analyze and evaluate the teaching of a learning segment -- a series of 3–5 ELA lessons. (If teaching language arts within a large time block, a learning segment is about 3–5 hours of connected instruction.)
The learning segment should provide opportunities for students to (1) develop their ability to comprehend, construct meaning from, and interpret complex text, and (2) to create a written product interpreting or responding to complex features of a text -- features that are just beyond students’ current skill levels.
There are four main missions -- or task areas -- in the TPA assessment:
There are four main missions -- or task areas -- in the TPA assessment:
1. Planning, Instruction and Assessment
2. Instructing and Engaging Students in Learning
3. Assessing Student Learning
4. Analyzing Teaching
Mission I – Lessons
Alpha: Context for Learning Information
(1 file) ELA_Context_Inf_template
Bravo: Lesson Plans
(3-5 files) ELA_Lesson_1, ELA_Lesson_2, ELA_Lesson_3, ELA_Lesson_4, ELA_Lesson_5
Charlie: Planning Commentary
(1 file) ELA_Planning_Comm_template
Mission II – Videos
Alpha: Video Clips
(2-3 files) ELA_Lesson_[1-5]_Clip_[1-3]
Bravo: Instruction Commentary
(1 file) ELA_Instruction_Comm_template
Mission III – Artifacts
Alpha: Student Work Samples
(3-3 files) ELA_Work_Sample_1, ELA_Work_Sample_2, and ELA_Work_Sample_3
Bravo: Evidence
(0-2 files) Work_Sample_1_Feedback, ELA_Work_Sample_2_Feedback, ELA_Work_Sample_3_Feedback
Charlie: Assessment Commentary
(1 file) ELA_Assessment_Comm_template
Mission IV – Analysis
Alpha: Analyzing Teaching Commentary
(1 file) ELA_AT_Comm_template
