edTPA Making Good Choices

Generally, what does your video need to show?

Evidence that you have created a learning environment that challenges students

Academic Learning

The means by which students develop and express content understandings. It represents the language of the discipline that students need to learn and use to participate and engage in meaningful ways.

List the Key Points you are to include in your assessment commentary

-Analysis of an assessment that allows students to display a range of understanding of the specified subject-specific elements of your central focus. -A focus on important trends in student performance, supported by examples from the work samples -Focus students whose work samples represents a range of performance on the assessments -Concrete evidence of feedback for each focus student -Concrete evidence of academic language use

The edTPA is divided into tasks. How many tasks are there and what are they?

3 Tasks; Planning for Instruction and Assessment; Instructing and Engaging Students in Learning; Assessing Student Learning

How should you use principles of research and theory?

As justification for instructional choices

What information should be included in the "Context for Learning" commentary?

Class demographics, student subgroups (students with similar characteristics), students' strengths (including personal, cultural, and community assets), and learning needs

What are the two types of writing needed for the edTPA portfolio and describe?

DESCRIPTIVE WRITING is logical, well-ordered, with sufficient detail so the assessor comprehends the lesson plans, the students, and explanation supporting decisions about instruction. ANALYTICAL WRITING consists of explanations and interpretations based on evidence.

I may upload my video of my learning segment to the YouTube Educational Channel as a resource for other educators.

False

My video clips do not need to be continuous and parts that appear in the video that do not pertain to the learning segment may be edited.

False

You are required to include formal citations in your edTPA portfolio.

False

Your cooperating teacher should choose your learning segment for your edTPA portfolio.

False

There is a 10 page limit to each lesson plan submitted as part of your portfolio.

False, There is a 4 page limit

What does the edTPA call the period of time you will focus on your portfolio?

The Learning Segment

How many assessments will you analyze in your commentary?

One

How many work samples will you select for detailed analysis?

Three

A good way to cite specific scenes from my video is to use time stamps.

True

When writing the "Context for Learning Commentary" you should discuss your students' prior academic learning.

True

You are to include copies of all planned assessments in your edTPA portfolio.

True

You must present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of how well all your student perform.

True

You will need to discuss "next steps" detailing instructional plans for the whole class.

True

What should you consider about students' use of language in the lesson and especially in the learning segment?

What key content are words, phrases, notations, syntax, discourse, etc that students will need to use

Discourse

how people who are members of a discipline talk and write

Learning Segment

the period of time that is focused on for the edTPA portfolio

Syntax

the set of conventions for organizing words, phrases, and symbols together into structure

Central Focus

the understanding that students are to develop during the learning segment