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The primary audience for the state of Washington “Performance-Based Pedagogy Assessment of Teacher Candidates” includes teacher candidates, teacher education faculty, and higher education faculty supervisors and P-12 cooperating teachers of student teaching internships. Other audiences with a close interest in this document include P-12 administrators, policy makers with statewide responsibility for public education, and nongovernmental organizations that deliberate on issues pertaining to teacher quality.
The Washington Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (WACTE) and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) collaborated in the design of the “Performance-Based Pedagogy Assessment of Teacher Candidates.” The instrument is based on the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) effective teaching requirements for teacher preparation program approval by the state of Washington Board of Education, on contemporary research related to teaching and learning, on the work of the Multi-Ethnic Think Tank (2001), and the federal law “No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.” Throughout the design process of the “Performance-Based Pedagogy Assessment of Teacher Candidates,” representatives of statewide professional education associations provided input to and support for the creation of an authentic assessment tool of teacher candidates in real classrooms over a sustained period of time.
- Performance-Based Pedagogy Assessment (pdf)
- Instructional Plan (pdf)
- Scoring Rubric (pdf)
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