Single Subject Credentials: PACT Teaching Event
Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT)
PACT is a consortium of teacher preparation programs that have joined together to develop a teacher performance assessment (TPA). Successful completion of the TPA is mandated by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing in order to earn a California Single Subject Teaching Credential.
The PACT Teaching Event is a performance assessment that addresses the 13 California Teacher Performance Expectations (TPE’s), the teaching standards for California credential candidates.
The Teacher Performance Assessment
Teacher Performance Expectation Domains
- Making Subject matter comprehensible to students
- Assessing student learning
- Engaging and supporting students in learning
- Planning Instruction and Designing learning experiences for students
- Creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning
- Developing as a professional educator
The Preliminary Teaching Event (PTE)
- Completed during the first semester of student teaching or the second semester of internship
- Is an abridged version of the PACT Teaching Event
- Focuses on a single lesson – with videotape, assessment and reflection
The PACT Teaching Event (PACT TE)
- Completed during the final semester of student teaching
- Three to five day unit or plan
- Video tape of one of the lessons
- Assessment of students during the unit/includes student work
- Attention to academic language support
- Written commentary and reflection regarding the experience
For detailed information regarding PACT, please see the Secondary Student Teaching Handbook
Return to the Table of Content for the Single Subject Credential Program Student Handbook