TPE and TPA Support

This website was designed with materials provided by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. It is designed to help you understand and negotiate the TPAs. Throughout your teacher education program you will complete all four performance tasks. In addition to information about the TPAs you’ll find an electronic version of the task itself, and samples of TPAs at each score level. You will also find links to the 13 TPEs and the TPA Candidate Handbook.

SCED 475: Task Three – Classroom Assessment of Academic Learning Goals
Multiple Subjects Preliminary Credential Candidates will complete Task 3 as part of SCED 475. You must select science as the content area for Task 3 in order to meet the requirements of the class. You will complete the task and submit it to your instructor via TaskStream in addition to submitting a paper copy of the assignment. Grades will be posted on TaskStream using the 4-point rubric provided by the state. The TaskStream Guide for information about how to access TaskStream.

Note: For those students who are NOT student teaching concurrent with taking SCED 475, please visit the TPA Task 3 for Non Student Teachers.

The chart below has samples of the four TPAs at each of the score levels in addition to an electronic version of the task itself and the rubric.

EDSS 450C: Task One - Principles of Content-Specific and Developmentally Appropriate Pedagogy
Single Subject Preliminary Credential Candidates will complete a science specific Task 1 as part of EDSS 450C. You will complete the task and submit it to your professor as instructed in class. Grades will be determined using the 4-point rubric provided by the state.

The chart below has samples of the four TPAs at each of the score levels in addition to an electronic version of the task itself and the rubric.

	Task 1 Completed in EDSS300C	Task 2	Task 3 Completed in SCED475 & EDSS450C	Task 4 Completed in EDSS473C
Score Level 1	HS Social Studies/History	2nd grade Science	7th grade science	2nd grade Math
Score Level 2	HS English/Language Arts	HS Math	4th grade English/Language Arts	2nd grade Science
Score Level 3	2nd grade Language Arts	7th grade English/Language Arts	6th grade Science	3rd grade Language Arts/English
Score Level 4	HS Math	8th grade English	4th grade Social Studies	3rd grade Language Arts/English
TPA Task	SSCP Science Task 1	Task 2	Task 3	Task 4
Scoring Rubric	Rubric TPA1	Rubric TPA2	Rubric TPA3	Rubric TPA4

Useful TPA links:
California Teaching Performance Expectations - 13 TPE's at a Glance

TPA Candidate Handbook (created by the CCTC)

College of Education Single Subject TPA/TPE website

Thanks to Prof. Wayne Bacer of Azusa Pacific for his training and for sharing his website.