Teacher Performance Assessment
(edTPA)
August 25, 2014
edTPA Tasks & Cycle of Effective
Teaching
What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and
assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of
instruction
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
What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and
assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of
instruction
Instruction Task
• Select 1-3 unedited video clips totaling no more
than 15 minutes of instruction demonstrating:
Instruction focused on targeted learning objectives
Presentations and/or interactions with students that
deepen student understanding
o Interactions among students that show teacher
candidate facilitating deeper student understanding
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• Instruction commentary
• 2-4 pages describing and reflecting on teaching
strategies demonstrated in the clip(s)
What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and
assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of
instruction
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, 2 for in-depth analysis
• Assessment commentary
What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and
assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of
instruction
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)
What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and
assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of
instruction
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
What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and
assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of
instruction
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
Looking at Examples
• Read Commentary prompts and answers 1a – 1d,
if time 5a-5d.
• What do you notice that is taught and why?
What seems important to address in planning
• Then look at Robric 1. What evidence do you
see at a level 3? What evidence do you see
above a 3?
• If you have time, repeat for Prompt 5
Selection of Content
• Read the content/lesson requirements for your
discipline.
• Brainstorm with your group possible content
choices. Record ideas.
Details
• Logistics
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Permission to videotape
Timing
Writing time (up to 1 ½ days)
Support at UW Bothell (faculty, clinical faculty,
coursework, seminars)
• Questions and concerns