1. Teacher Performance Assessment
(edTPA)
August 25, 2014

2. edTPA Tasks & Cycle of Effective Teaching

3. What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of instruction

4. 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

5. What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of instruction

6. 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
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)

7. What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of instruction

8. 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

9. What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of instruction

10. 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)

11. What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of instruction

12. 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

13. What is the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)?
Planning
(For instruction and assessment)
Instruction
Assessment
Commentaries
Academic language
Student Voice
3-5 days of instruction

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Selection of Content
Read the content/lesson requirements for your discipline.
Brainstorm with your group possible content choices. Record ideas.

18. Details Logistics Questions and concerns Permission to videotape
Timing
Writing time (up to 1 ½ days)
Support at UW Bothell (faculty, clinical faculty, coursework, seminars)
Questions and concerns