TK20
User’s
Manual
MoPTA Training
Northwest Missouri State University
July, 2014
Introduction
The Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment (MoPTA) is an online performance assessment developed
by ETS that DESE has mandated for all Missouri student teachers as of the fall 2014 trimester. We have
piloted this assessment in the fall 2013 trimester and spring 2014 trimesters. This training will show
how students can prepare their four MoPTA tasks during the fall 2014 trimester and upload them to
Tk20.
MoPTA and Tk20
For the fall 2014 trimester, student teachers will use Tk20 to upload their MoPTA’s. When the full
implementation begins in the fall 2015 trimester, student teachers may use a different system.
Tasks of MoPTA
Like our Teacher Work Sample, the MoPTA is split into pieces. Instead of our seven elements, it is split
into four tasks. The content requirements and rubric of each task are listed later in this training. The
content of these tasks are similar to the TWS elements, except for the video requirement in Task 4.
However, the video is not required during the fall 2014 trimester.
Other MoPTA Notes
1. MoPTA exemplars from last semester will be provided as a link from the student teaching
website in the “forms & documents”) section:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/peu/studentteach/index.htm
2. Focus students (see below) can be different students for different tasks.
3. Above all else, you MUST use Google Chrome as your browser when using Tk20.
Video: If You Choose to Upload to Tk20
As mentioned previously, the video portion of MoPTA is not required this semester. But, if you would
like to upload a video of your student teaching experience to Tk20, please use the following guidelines:
Videos Guidelines for MoPTA
If you would like to upload a video to your MoPTA during the fall 2014 trimester, you should follow
these guidelines:
1. Please do not upload videos over 100 MB. We will show below how students can edit and
compress their videos. If they need more storage space to upload videos, they should contact
Mike McBride at [email protected]
2. We ask students to upload three videos to their MoPTA. We ask that in these videos students
utilize three different instructional strategies.
3. We recommend that students take six or seven videos, and use their top three.
4. These videos do not have to include when all things went right in the classroom. They could be
an example of how things did not go well and then the student teacher can explain in their task
4 section how they would do things differently in the future.
5. Please use Windows Movie Maker to edit videos (if possible) and then upload wmv files.
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Instructions on how to save, edit and upload these videos are listed below:
1. Open file in Windows Movie Maker (if possible).
2. On right, click “browse videos” and find video file
3. Edit by clicking on the “Edit” button in the toolbar, and then using the “set start point” and “set
end point” options to get the right clip to use.
4. If your video is still larger than 100MB (a 60-70MB size would be optimal), you should compress
it further.
5. To compress your video, use pulldown on upper left hand (left of the “home” tab, and above the
“paste” icon)
6. Choose option “save movie”
7. Choose option “for email”
8. Save the new video in a known location.
Understanding Tasks 1-4
To know and complete requirements for tasks 1-4 on the MoPTA, students need to become familiar with
the directions and rubrics for each of these. These will be found in the “forms and documents” section
of the student teaching website here:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/peu/studentteach/mopta.htm
Uploading Material to Tasks 1-4
Each MoPTA will be sent to student teachers as a portfolio on Tk20 during the spring 2013 trimester.
These will arrive just like TWS’s have.
Click on the portfolios tab
Click on the link to the MoPTA to see
more.
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Each tab represents a task of the
MoPTA. Click on Task 1
HINT: Once your MoPTA is scored you
will be able to see the scores by clicking
on the tab titled “assessment”
Here are instructions and a link for each
item to upload. Click on the “click here
to attach” link next to “Textbox 1.1.1”.
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Choose to create a new Textbox
1.1.1 and click “continue”.
Copy and paste contents of the
first MoPTA textbox here.
In this example, you will also need to upload
you Contextual Factors Chart here.
HINT: Again, for instructions on what materials should be
placed in this textbox and how to construct a contextual
factors chart, use the material on our MoPTA website here:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/peu/studentteach/mopt
a.htm
When done, click “save”.
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This will bring you back to the Task 1 main page. You can
either repeat these instructions for the next textbox or click
“save draft”. Only click “Submit” after all items are
uploaded for all tasks. Save often, “submit” once.
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Submit Video (Optional)
A video is not required for the fall 2014 MoPTA used at Northwest Missouri State University. However,
if any student would like to upload a video, Task 4 does include a spot. Click on the task 4 tab to find it.
There will be three spots to upload separate videos.
Click on the “click here to attach” next to one of the video prompts
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Click on “create a new video” and click “continue”.
Click on “upload” and click
“save”.
Click on the next video “click here to attach”
link to upload additional video files.
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For any other questions or information related to the MoPTA, view our informational site here:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/peu/studentteach/mopta.htm
For other questions related to Student Teaching and Tk20, visit our site here:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/peu/tess/tk20/faq.htm
For any other questions related to Tk20, visit our main site:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/dept/peu/tess/tk20/onlinetraining.htm
Finally, for any questions that haven’t been answered, contact Mike McBride at
[email protected] or 660-562-1089.
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