Issue link: http://educator.cta.org/i/1512793
Redundant, Stressful, Time-Consuming While standards must remain high and accountability is critical, CTA finds Teaching Performance Assessments to have little value in teacher prep and suggests a better way S I N C E 2 0 0 8 , Californi a's C ommi ssion on Teach er Cre- dentialing (CTC) has required teacher candidates to pass a teaching performance assessment with Kâ12 public school students as a mandatory step toward earning a preliminary teaching credential. e teaching performance assessment â CalTPA and EdTPA are the two models* â is designed to measure the candidate's knowledge, skills and ability to instruct Pre-Kâ12 students in the Student Academic Content Standards. is includes sub- ject-specific pedagogy, designing and implementing instruction and student assessment, video-recording teaching, and reflect- ing on practice. A recent CTA survey found that new educators overwhelm- ingly think the TPA does little to help prepare them to teach and in fact is redundant, stressful, time-consuming and often detrimental to physical and mental health. CTA also noted that because BIPOC teacher candidates have lower success rates on TPAs they may not pursue teaching as a career, which leads to educator ranks that do not ref lect the diversity of California's students. 26 cta.org Feature