The TPR is a complete professional development system. Developed by faculty and students at the University of Virginia, the TPR offers data collectors a valid, reliable, useful method to collect information on teaching practices. The TPR describes the extent to which teachers behave in ways that influence student academic learning, general behavior, and involvement in classes.
This session will walk you through the process of creating a TPR account. At the conclusion of this session, please go to www.tprcasenex.com and create an account for yourself.
This session will explore the basic components of the TPR website. Please note that some institutions and organizations use supplementary instruments and training procedures. If you are affiliated with one of these institutions your site many contain additional items not mentioned in this video. Please contact customer support if you have questions about these items.
This session will outline the procedures for installing the TPR desktop application on your computer. The TPR is available in versions for both the Mac and PC. At the conclusion of the this session, please download the application to your computer.
By now you should have (1) created your own TPR account and (2) downloaded the desktop application to your computer. If you have not completed these two items, please go back and do so. If you have any problems creating your account or with downloading the application, please post a comment in this post and someone from the TPR team will respond.
During this session we will explore the components of the desktop application. Remember, if you have not downloaded the instrument, you can do so from the TPR website.
This session will walk you through the steps to saving a TPR observation. It is always a good idea to keep copies of your observations even after they have been uploaded to the TPR site. 
This session will walk you through the process of uploading your observational data. 
This session will explore the components of the TPR Feedback Report.
This session will review the TPR behaviors and explore some of the training elements available to you. Before you move on to the next session, you may want to print out the TPR Critical Attributes cheat sheet and watch some of the short videos depicting each of the TPR items. If you have any questions about a particular behavior, just post a comment and someone from the CaseNEX staff will help to clarify.
This session will provide you with an opportunity to practice scoring some of the four minute training videos in the video library. You are strongly encouraged to use these videos to test your knowledge of the TPR items. 
This session walks you through the complete TPR observational process and allows you to practice scoring context, planning items, four-minute videos, as well as student footage. 
This session will walk you through the components of the TPR reliability exercise. All data collectors must successfully complete (average of 70% or above) the training tasks before they conduct TPR observations. These exercises help to ensure that we are all collecting data in the same way.
