About the WVTPA
The West Virginia Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) is a collaboratively developed assessment that is completed by all candidates during the culminating internship/student teaching experience. The TPA requires that teacher candidates draw on pedagogical and content pedagogical knowledge to plan and deliver instruction that builds on each student’s strengths, needs, and prior experiences. Through this performance assessment, teacher candidates provide credible evidence of student impact. The TPA includes seven performance tasks that have been identified from research and best practice as fundamental to improving student learning. Professional standards and rubrics define and frame performance on each teaching process. The outline for the Teacher Performance Assessment is as follows:
- TASK 1: Contextual Factors
- TASK 2: Standards and Goals
- TASK 3: Assessment Plan
- TASK 4: Design for Instruction
- TASK 5: Implementation and Reflection on Daily Instruction
- TASK 6: Impact on Student Learning
- TASK 7: Reflection and Self-Evaluation.
The TPA is aligned with the Council on Accreditation for Educator Preparation (CAEP) Standard 1.1, the West Virginia Professional Teaching Standards (WVPTS), and the 2013 Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Standards.
View the WVTPA Rubric