Requirements

In addition to completing the program specific coursework and clinical practice requirements, all students need to pass the Teacher Performance Portfolio (TPP) as well as the Target Professional Dispositions.

Teacher Performance Portfolio (TPP)

The Teacher Performance Portfolio is critical in your career in the School of Education and has been approved by the New York State Education Department as a certification requirement for candidate's first initial teaching certificate.  Please note that in order to be recommended for certification, you must receive a 2.7 or higher as your cumulative average score on each task. 

The TPP consists of three tasks, which are often completed in different courses. 

The tasks create learning opportunities for you to experience, and be assessed on, the foundational practices of an educator:

• Planning
• Teaching
• Assessing
• Reflecting

TPP 1 – Planning and Teaching

For this task, you plan lessons and teach them in a clinical setting. City College faculty support and assess you by reviewing your lesson plans as well as by observing you teach.  

TPP 2 – Assessing Student Learning

For this task, you assess a class set of student work, analyze the evidence of student learning, present the feedback you would give to select focus students, and identify what you would do next in your teaching, given what you learned from the student work.   

TPP 3 – Reflecting and Taking Action for Professional Growth

For this task, you reflect on the teaching you are doing in a clinical placement and identify ways in which you want to grow.  You then set growth goals, take action steps to reach     them, and reflect on your progress in meeting your goals.   

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The School of Education’s Target Professional Dispositions

Alongside the development of skills and knowledge needed for a career in education, The City College School of Education also fosters teachers’ professional dispositions.  

Dispositions are values, attitudes, and habits that impact an educator’s work with students, families, colleagues, and communities.  

The School of Education has identified six dispositions that we value and support from admissions to graduation, through coursework, clinical practice, and advising.    

1. Candidate believes that everyone can learn. 
Sets high expectations for the potential and success of all learners, including oneself; provides support and encouragement for achieving high expectations; recognizes and encourages effort and persistence in oneself and others

2. Candidate values diversity and equity.
Seeks to deepen understandings of cultural, linguistic, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and other differences to promote equity; supports and empowers learners from diverse backgrounds; acknowledges and respects learning variations and the need for differentiated instruction

3. Candidate is caring and democratic. 
Treats others fairly and with respect and dignity (students, staff, family, and community members); demonstrates honesty, integrity, empathy toward others; supports and contributes to a safe learning environment for all

4. Candidate is a reflective practitioner.
Is thoughtful and intentional about both self and others; welcomes feedback from others and uses it as a tool for improved action, reflection, and growth; self-assesses to enhance strengths and overcome limitations; understands how assessment is part of an inquiry to support teaching and learning

5. Candidate values problem-solving, critical thinking, risk-taking, and perseverance. 
Encourages questioning and seeking answers; uses challenges as opportunities for learning and self-development; nurtures and engages curiosity, creativity, and imagination; willing to work hard

6. Candidate upholds professional and ethical standards. 
Demonstrates commitment to service; executes responsibilities conscientiously; interacts with others respectfully - including being punctual, maintaining confidentiality; seeks to continuously grow and develop as a professional; values collaboration; upholds CCNY’s Academic Integrity Policy.