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AITSL were not prescriptive in how ITE providers must meet the program standard which has resulted in 12 TPAs being implemented across 42 ITE providers. This paper outlines the development and implementation of one endorsed TPA designed to measure the readiness of graduating teachers, whilst taking into consideration the learnings from well  \nknown TPAs and our own experiences. With this being one of the  \nearlier unfunded TPAs in Australia to have been approved through the accreditation endorsement process, the paper offers some insights into meeting the additional accreditation program requirements and raises some longer-term considerations associated with implementing TPAs.  \nIntroduction  \nThe professional standards of teacher education programs are critical to quality assuring initial teacher education (ITE) programs. The accreditation of teacher education programs in Australia relies on each professional standard being taught, practiced, and assessed multiple times throughout an ITE degree. However, increasing scrutiny and rising concerns about the variability in Australian teaching graduates’ readiness for teaching practice led to the introduction of a capstone Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) which also features in several ITE degrees internationally (Allard et al., 2014 ; Cochran-Smith et al., 2013; Darling-Hammond et al., 2013 ; Stacey et al., 2020) . The TPA is a capstone, performance assessment, aligned to the professional standards for teachers, and tied to national teacher education program accreditation. The TPA is a benchmark for  \nmeasuring graduates’ ability to demonstrate that they have the requisite knowledge, skills and practices to (1) plan and deliver a series of lessons,(2) monitor and assess student learning and to (3) reflect on the impact of their teaching on the learners in their classroom. (Mascadri et al., 2022, p. 2)  \nSince 2019, all pre-service teachers in Australia must pass a TPA to graduate. The introduction ofTPAs has brought about a shift in focus from professional standards as inputs used to inform program development, to standards as outputs assessed in actual classroom teaching practice (Adie & Wyatt-Smith, 2021) . The decision to implement a TPA resulted from a set of recommendations following the formation of a Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG) funded by the federal government to review ITE programs. Thereport Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers (TEMAG, 2015) highlighted inconsistencies between ITE programs in the assessment of pre-service teachers against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs) at program completion. The report called for a consistent and transparent graduate assessment at an agreed benchmark of Graduate Teacher Standard to be a key feature of profession entry requirements. The foundations ofthis recommendation were primarily influenced by the well-known Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) and the Education Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) in the United States which are linked to teacher licensure and have been well researched (Nelson et al., 2014; Peck & McDonald, 2013) .  \nAs was the case in Australia, the advent ofTPAs in the United States came about due to increasing calls to professionalise the field. 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