TPA Lesson Plan

TPA lesson plan

So… TPA’s. I actually hate them. They stress me out and I don’t ever know if I am doing them correctly. I am not excited to have to do a whole bunch of these for our unit plan. I am trying to accept the fact that I have to do them in order to graduate. I like the format that was given though because all you have to do is answer the questions. That is actually way more helpful than just filling it out and having no idea what I am supposed to be doing.

It helps us reflect on our plans for the lesson and what we plan to accomplish and how to do it. It helps to lay out the lesson step by step. I feel like the TPA is kind of redundant. It makes you repeat what you want to do and your reasoning over and over. It is helpful to argue your reasoning once but over and over is just a little ridiculous. 

I think this is helpful overall for a beginning teachers because it helps us to reflect and think through what we want to do. I want to be the best teacher I can be and I know that this is part of the process of getting there. I have been exposed to this a few times before but now that I am placed in a school and actually having to do this all the time, I think it would be more helpful to have like a class for the TPA. How to write them and preparing us to do them correctly. Just looking at it and answering questions is not going to make us successful teachers. We have to know that what we are planning to do is right and we are on the right path. I am really nervous that when I start students teaching, my process for the TPA is going to be wrong and I am going to fail.