Successful teacher candidates support learning by designing a Teacher Work Sample that employs a range of strategies and builds on each student’s strengths, needs, and prior experiences. Through this performance assessment, teacher candidates provide credible evidence of their ability to facilitate learning.
As a part of the Teacher Work Sample, you are required to teach a comprehensive unit. Your instructional goals and objectives should be based on your state or district content standards. You will also need to create an assessment plan designed to measure student performance before (pre-assessment), during (formative assessment), and after (post-assessment) your unit instruction. Finally, you need to analyze and reflect on your instructional design, educational context, and learning gains demonstrated by your students.
The College of Education’s Teacher Work Sample is based on work done by the Renaissance Partnership for Improving Teacher Quality.
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Teacher Work Sample (TWS) Handout
This document contains your full instruction for completing the Teacher Work Sample. We suggest that you download this document and print it out for your reference.