TPA Orientation to Benchmarks

Print as slides, cut into smaller pieces, mix up, and ask new participants to discuss and sort these into the four related

groups. For most challenge don’t give them the heading, just have

them sort into four groups and have them title those clusters.

TEACHER PLANNING (3)

How do the candidate’s planning, instruction, and assessment support academic language development?

How does the candidate use knowledge of his/her students to target support for student learning of how to use facts, concepts, and interpretations to make and explain judgments about a significant historical event or social science phenomenon?

How do the informal and formal assessments provide information to understand student progress toward

the standards/objectives?

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT (2)

How does the candidate actively engage students in their own

understanding of how to critically evaluate accounts of an historical

event or social science phenomenon and defend their judgments?

How does the candidate elicit and monitor students’ responses to

deepen their understanding of how to critically evaluate accounts of an

historical event or social science phenomenon and defend their

judgments?

How does the candidate demonstrate an understanding of student performance with respect

to standards/objectives?

ASSESSMENT (3)

How does the candidate use conclusions about what students know and are able to do to plan

next steps in instruction?

How does the candidate provide students feedback to guide their

further learning?

How does the candidate monitor student learning and make appropriate adjustments in

instruction during the learning segment?

ACADEMIC LANGUAGE (2)

How does the candidate identify the language demands of learning tasks and assessments relative to

the students’ current levels of academic language proficiency?

How do the candidate’s planning, instruction, and assessment support academic language

development?

TPAC TPA

Packet Calibrate

Preponderance of Evidence Essential questions

Interpretive skills Academic Language

BOT TaskSTream

PEDL Structured Opportunities

Formative Assessment Summative Assessment

4 point rubric 75% done “externally”

“Specific patterns are identified for individuals or subgroups”

Specific feedback

“Consider the implications for meeting the standards/objectives”

Language demands

Language proficiency Frames

Stanford Inter-rater reliability