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
