Attachments and Due Dates for TPA's

TPA's will be submitted via Task Stream in windows that will be open one week before and one week after the end of the semester. The link at the bottom of the blog will lead you to the standards that you must include in your task template response to the standards you will be addressing in your lesson and assessment.

TPA 1: Subject Specific Pedagogy
This TPA has four case studies that are to be completed at the end of four courses. This
TPA is only scored after all four case studies have been submitted. It is your job to
store them in Task Stream and to SHARE them after completion with your instructor.
After completing your final case study you will SUBMIT TPA 1 to the TPA Coordinator.

TPA 2: Designing Instruction
This TPA will be completed at the end of your first semester of student teaching. You will SHARE this with your instructor as well as SUBMIT it to the TPA Coordinator.

TPA 3: Assessing Learning
This TPA will be completed during your second semester of student teaching.
Prior to teaching this lesson you will secure permission forms (you must have copies) from the students in your classroom. At the time of submission you must also turn in a copy of your assessment and five pieces of evidence of student learning (assessment): one for each of your focus students, and a high, medium and low response from the class as a whole.

TPA 4: Culminating Teaching Experience
This TPA will be completed at the end of your second semester of student teaching.
Prior to teaching this lesson you will secure permission forms from the students in your
classroom. You are to set the day you will teach the lesson you plan to use for this TPA.
You must arrange to have someone video tape 20 minutes of your lesson. You will upload this video on Task Stream. You will need to attach (in Task Stream) copies of student work: one from each focus student and a high, medium and low from you class as a whole. NOTE: Kinkos will download your work on a flash drive if you are unable to scan the work yourself.

You will enroll in the TPAs via Task Stream. Please add the school year you were accepted into the program at the end of your enrollment code. For example, if you met with the director of multiple subject in the spring of 2010, and began classes in the fall of 2010 (or summer) your will enroll in TPA 1 as follows: task1ms-2010.

The Guidelines for Submission will give you the dates for submitting your TPAs.