Teacher Performance Assessment

(edTPA)

August 25, 2014

edTPA Tasks & Cycle of Effective Teaching

Planning(For instruction and

assessment)

Instruction Assessment Commentaries

Academic language

Student Voice

3-5 days of instruction

What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?

Planning Task

• Describing context • Selecting lesson objectives• Planning a unit for 3-5 days of instruction (lessons,

assessment, materials)• Alignment of objectives, instruction, and assessment• Daily reflection for 3-5 days of instruction• Planning commentary

Planning(For instruction and assessment)

Instruction Assessment Commentaries

Academic language

Student Voice

3-5 days of instruction

What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?

Instruction Task

• Select 1-3 unedited video clips totaling no more than 15 minutes of instruction demonstrating:o Instruction focused on targeted learning objectiveso Presentations and/or interactions with students that

deepen student understandingo Interactions among students that show teacher

candidate facilitating deeper student understanding• Instruction commentary

• 2-4 pages describing and reflecting on teaching strategies demonstrated in the clip(s)

Planning(For instruction and assessment)

Instruction Assessment Commentaries

Academic language

Student Voice

3-5 days of instruction

What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?

Assessment Task

• Select an assessment from the learning segment & provide evaluation criteria

• Analyze student work & identify patterns in understanding across the class

• Ask students to reflect on their own performance• Document written/oral feedback• Determine next steps in teaching• 3 student work samples for in-depth analysis• Assessment commentary

Planning(For instruction and assessment)

Instruction Assessment Commentaries

Academic language

Student Voice

3-5 days of instruction

What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?

Commentaries

• Written responses to prompts from all three tasks

Descriptions of artifacts and rationales behind decisions

Analysis of learning about teaching and student learning

Analysis of students’ learning about their own learning (student voice)

Planning(For instruction and assessment)

Instruction Assessment Commentaries

Academic language

Student Voice

3-5 days of instruction

What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)?

Academic Language

• Attends to oral & written language• Specialized vocabulary of the discipline (e.g. lab report)• Typical classroom language demands (e.g. discussing ideas)• Vocabulary of processes and concepts (in the discipline)

• Identifying the language demands in relation to students’ current academic language proficiency

• Demonstrating how the candidates planning, instruction, and assessment support academic language development

• Must be shown in Planning task, as well as in either instruction or assessment task

Planning(For instruction and assessment)

Instruction Assessment Commentaries

Academic language

Student Voice

3-5 days of instruction

What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)?

Student Voice

• Planning for and engaging students in opportunities to articulate the learning targets, monitor their own progress, and identify support needed to achieve the learning target

Additional Information

• A minimum score of 35 is required for Washington State certification

• Aligned with the Teacher/Principal Evaluation Project, or TPEP

• Results used by UWB School of Educational Studies for self-assessment and feedback