TESA Teacher Expectation/Student Achievement

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TESATeacher Expectation/Student Achievement

• What is TESA?
• TESA and the ICSD

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What is TESA?

• TESA is a teacher training program that takes
  place over six three hour sessions after school.
• Teachers learn 3 new interactions each session,
  (total of 15 interactions). These interactions
  fall within three categories response
  opportunity, feedback and personal regard.
• Teachers observe each other practicing these
  interactions in their classrooms between sessions.

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• TESA is based on the belief that the surest way
  to create change is to change ourselves.
• TESA is structured to increase teacher awareness
  of their perceptions and how their perceptions
  affect their expectations of both perceived high
  and low achieving students.
• TESA is concerned not just with the quantity of
  interactions, but also the quality of
  interactions.

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What is the history of TESA?

• TESA was developed in 1970 under an Elementary
  and Secondary Education Title III grant to the
  Los Angeles County Office of Education.
• TESA was conceived by Mary Martin, who directed
  the project during the first two years while the
  teacher training program was developed and
  tested.
• TESA is based on the work of Good Brophy.
• Sam Kerman directed TESA during the dissemination
  phase, designed the facilitator training
  component, and spread awareness of TESA
  throughout the country.

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TESA and the ICSD

• The ICSD started training teachers in TESA in the
  mid 1980s.
• Participation in TESA has been an expectation for
  all second year teachers in our district.
• TESA is the longest, continuous staff development
  program in the ICSD.