TCSG at Wiregrass Transforming Educator Preparation Grant Collaborating

TCSG at Wiregrass Transforming Educator Preparation Grant

Collaborating Partners § § § Wiregrass Georgia Technical College System of Georgia Coffee County School System Georgia Christian Academy Lowndes County School System TCSG at Wiregrass Ga. TAPP Program

Ga. NTEP Focus Goal Continue implementation work for ed. TPA and design specific strategies for how ed. TPA will be used by the EPP to examine program effectiveness as well as how the EPP will work with partners to use ed. TPA data to examine candidate readiness to teach including designing induction support for early career teachers built on ed. TPA data. TCSG at Wiregrass Ga. TAPP Program

Our Past Experience § Non-traditional program (Ga. TAPP) § FY 2013 -2014 was the first year of program with a cohort of seven candidates § FY 2014 -2015 was the first pilot year of ed. TPA; cohort of eight candidates TCSG at Wiregrass Ga. TAPP Program

Team Developed Goals § § § Identify an ed. TPA coordinator to coordinate all efforts in preparing candidates for ed. TPA Provide more seminars to include academic language, teacher commentary, technical writing, and teacher reflection To train faculty mentors in the various schools systems where candidates are employed To provide local feedback and training for our candidates to best prepare them for success with ed. TPA by the ed. TPA Coordinator To use the data from completed ed. TPA assessments to strengthen and revise curriculum for candidates of FY 2015 -2016

Implementation Steps • Saturday Seminar curriculum was redeveloped to include academic language, teacher commentary, technical writing, and teacher reflection. • Teacher reflection was evaluated to ensure the candidates focused on improving student learning. • Guest presented ed. TPA workshop. TCSG at Wiregrass Ga. TAPP Program

Implementation Steps • Coordinator and a supervisor designed additional strategies for preparing students for ed. TPA and worked with faculty and mentors to incorporate ed. TPA best practices. • Faculty mentors in the various schools systems where candidates are employed were trained on the requirements of ed. TPA. TCSG at Wiregrass Ga. TAPP Program

Implementation Steps • Local evaluation was conducted to further understand scoring alignment. • Technology training for the candidates was held to ensure technology is not a hindrance to successful completion of ed. TPA. • Kindles purchased to enable candidates to continuously video classroom. TCSG at Wiregrass Ga. TAPP Program

Positive Results • Greater understanding of ed. TPA for faculty and supervisors • ed. TPA awareness of P-12 partners • Better trained mentors • No technology, or any codes, on any submissions • All eight candidates surpassed the national range TCSG at Wiregrass Ga. TAPP Program

To Keep or not to Keep • Most strategies will be continued • Moved the mentor training to the beginning of the year • Allow more time to submit reflection • Add an additional focus on student use of language • Separate ed. TPA workshops for Sp. Ed TCSG at Wiregrass Ga. TAPP Program

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