getting ready for the 2012 field trials teacher performance assessment tpa 101:
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Getting Ready for the 2012 Field Trials
Teacher Performance Assessment
TPA 101:
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Cards on table for questions Will be answered at end of session Answers will be sent to participants
Background of the Teacher Performance
Assessment
• What is it? • National Perspective• Development of 6 Program
Areas• Future areas currently being
developed
FAST TRACK STATE
• To match PERCA timelines• To influence the policy
environment• To take the lead in this national
project• For continuous program
improvement
What has Minnesota already done to prepare
for Field Trials?
• MN TPAC Steering Committee• TPAC State Coordinator Sally
Baas• Bush Foundation Support of
$200,000
• 12 Score Trainers giving workshops throughout the state
• BOT support
• AACTE support - Ning
What has St. Cloud State University done to prepare
for Field Trials?
• Representation on MN Steering Committee• TPA Liaison to TPAC committee• TPA assigned as a MN “common metric” for TPI • TPI monetary support• 5 SCSU faculty attended Ohio Score Training• 3 credit buyout to be TPA Liaison• TPA sections piloted in CFS department• SOE, Teacher Ed Council & University workshops
SPRING FIELD TRIALS
All programs required to participate for spring student teaching
Data not required yet for PERCA Live: 2012-2013 Back mapping done this spring
Next Step Opportunities
• 30 minute prerequisite webinar covering Bias• 1.5 hour webinar covering TPA overview• 2.5 hour webinar for each of the 6 content areas
I. to gain a deeper understanding of the TPA II. to become a calibrated scorer
• Scoring workshops will be held in May
Walk through of the TPA
• 5 Main sections (green handout)
• Rolling out the TPA in a program•What this could look like in a department
UNPACKING THE TPA
•Content areas regroup to discuss the 5 TPA sections to identify what is already being done in your program
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