EDTPA making good choices study guide

Generally, what does your video need to show?

Evidence that you have created a learning environment that challenges students

List two 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 represent a range of performance on the assessment -Concrete evidence of feedback for each focus student -Concrete evidence of academic language use (video clip and/or student work samples)

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) -learning needs

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

3 tasks 1) Planning for Instruction and Assessment 2) Instructing and Engaging Students in Learning 3) Assessing Student Learning

How many work samples do you select for detailed analysis?

3

How should you use principles of research and theory?

As justification for instructional choices

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

The Learning Segment

How many assessments will you analyze in your commentary?

One (pg. 24)

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

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

Discourse

how people who are members of a discipline talk AND write

Academic Language

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

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 structures

Central Focus

the understanding that students are to develop during the learning segment