Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA)

CSU Long Beach uses the California Teaching Performance Assessment (CalTPA) to meet the SB 2042 requirement for a program-embedded teaching performance assessment. All candidates admitted to a credential program July 1, 2008 and after must pass each of the 4 Tasks of the CalTPA with a minimum score of 3 on an ascending 4 point scale in order to be recommended for an initial California teaching credential. Candidates are directed to the Candidate Handbook for a full description of the CalTPA, each of the 4 Tasks, and the scoring rubrics, as well as for guidelines for completing each Task. Candidates may access the Candidate Handbook, the 4 CalTPA Tasks, and the Task scoring rubrics at the links below. More information on the CalTPA is available on the Commission on Teacher Credentialing website: http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/TPA.html

CalTPAs are now known by their name and no longer by numbers.  The following are the new names for the CalTPAs:

• Task 1 = Subject-Specific Pedagogy
• Task 2 = Designing Instruction
• Task 3 = Assessing Learning
• Task 4 = Culminating Teaching Experience

For more information on the CalTPAs including the CSULB CalTPA Policy Statement, deadlines, Taskstream self-enrollment codes, and Task directions for students please visit the Assessment Office website at www.ced.csulb.edu/assessment.  Click on the CalTPA tab at the top of the page.

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Free Cracking the CalTPA Workshops

The College of Education is pleased to offer free "Cracking the CalTPA's" preparation workshops for all high stakes students. The workshop dates are as follows:

CalTPA Task 1

Friday October 16th      9-12pm     LA1-309

Friday October 23rd      1-4pm       LA1-309

CalTPA Task 2

Friday October 16th      1-4pm      LA1-309

Friday October 23rd       9-12pm    LA1-309

CalTPA Task 3 and Task 4

Monday October 5th       7-10pm    LA2-203

Candidate Handbook

• Candidate Handbook, July 2009 [PDF]

California Teaching Performance Assessment (CalTPA) Templates

• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Art
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy English
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy FCS
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Health Science
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy ITE
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy LOTE
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Math
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Music
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy PE
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Biology
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Chemistry
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Physics
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Geoscience
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Foundational Science
• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Social Science
• CalTPA (Task 2) Designing Instruction
• CalTPA (Task 3) Assessing Learning
• CalTPA (Task 4) Culminating Teaching Experience

California Teaching Performance Assessment (CalTPA) Scoring Rubrics

• CalTPA (Task 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy Scoring Rubric (PDF)
• CalTPA (Task 2) Designing Instruction Scoring Rubric (PDF)
• CalTPA (Task 3) Assessing Learning Scoring Rubric (PDF)
• CalTPA (Task 4) Culminating Teaching Experience Scoring Rubric (PDF)

Science Education TPA & TPE Support

• TPE & TPA Support from Science Education

Last update: 10/7/09