California Teaching Performance Assesment

Starting July 2008, Cal State East Bay will be using the California Teaching Performance Assessment (CalTPA) to meet the state requirement for a program-embedded teaching performance assessment. You will see these 4 CalTPA tasks in specific classes in the Multiple and Single Subject programs this year. More information on the CalTPA is available on the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) website: http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/TPA.html

For the implementation of the CalTPA requirements the University has partnered TaskStream as a service site to submit your work for the CalTPA. Taskstream is a web based system that allows us to score each Cal TPA task and provide an efficient methods of recording all steps of the Cal TPA. Candidates in the program will need purchase access to Taskstream please be advised the access license for Taskstream is based on a Semester system.

Below you will find more details information and guides that will assist you with these new systems and requirements. If you have any question or concerns contact our TPA Office

TaskStream

• TaskStream Main Website
• Subscriptions Rates (based on semester system)
• Upload TPAs to TaskStream Instructions

CalTPA

• CalTPA Handbook (Sept, 2009, 168 pgs)
• CalTPA Candidate Information Sheet explains what to do at CSUEB

The documents listed below are versions of the TPA tasks from the California Teacher Commission for reference and practice only. Do no use these to submit your TPAs via TaskStream. The TaskStream system contains the correct form for submission under online forms.

Please contact Sheila DaCosta at sheila.dacosta@csueastbay.edu or at (510)885-3276 for gerneral TPA or Taskstream information.