edTPA Presentation Outline

(Elementary Literacy edTPA)

Introduction
A. Purpose
a. Measure teachers readiness to teach their subject
b. Develop knowledge of subject matter, content standards, and subject specific
pedagogy
c. Develop and apply knowledge of varied students needs
d. Consider research and theory about how students learn
e. Reflect on and analyze evidence of the effects of instruction on student learning
B. Overview of Assessment
a. Composed of 3 tasks
b. Plan 3-5 consecutive lessons
i. Your learning segment should include learning tasks in which students
have opportunities to develop an essential literacy strategy for
comprehending or composing text and the related skills that directly
support that strategy
c. Evidence
i. Artifacts
ii. Commentaries
iii. Will be judged on five components: planning, instruction, assessment,
analyzing teaching, academic language
C. Structure of the Handbook
a. What do I need to think about?
b. What do I need to do?
c. What do I need to write?
d. How will the evidence of my teaching practice be assessed?
D. Rubrics
a. 5 rubrics for each task
b. 15 rubrics total
Planning Task 1: Planning for Instruction and Assessment
A. What do I need to think about?
a. Students prior knowledge, what they can do, and what they are learning to do
b. What you want them to learn-core concepts
c. Instructional strategies to support learning and language use
d. How learning segment deepens content understanding
B. What do I need to do?
a. Select a class
b. Provide context information (context for learning)
c. Create 3-5 lesson plans
d. Identify a central focus for the learning segment
i. Should include an essential literacy strategy
ii. Related skills

e. Write your lesson plans making sure you have all the required parts
f. Select and submit key instructional materials
g. Submit copies of assessments
C. What do I need to write?
a. Context for learning
b. Lesson plans
c. Commentary explaining your plans
i. Respond to prompts (no more than 9 single-spaced pages)
D. How will the evidence of my teaching practice be assessed?
a. 5 rubrics
b. Planning for literacy learning
c. Planning to support varied student learning needs
d. Using knowledge of students to inform teaching and learning
e. Identifying and supporting language demands
f. Planning assessments to monitor and support student learning
E. What to Submit
a. Context for learning
b. Lesson plans for learning segment
c. Instructional materials
d. Assessments
e. Planning commentary
Instruction Task 2: Instructing and Engaging Students in Learning
A. What do I need to think about?
a. Developing a learning environment to support students
b. Engaging students
c. How will you build on student responses to deepen content understanding?
d. Connecting new content to students lives
e. Use evidence from instruction to examine and change your teaching practices
B. What do I need to do?
a. Obtain permission for video recording
b. Examine your plans for the learning segment
c. Identify lessons to video record
d. Provide 2 video clips (together totaling no more than 20 min)
i. One clip shows how you actively engage students with modeling the
essential literacy strategy
ii. A second clip shows how you support students to practice and apply the
essential literacy strategy
e. Respond to the prompts in the instruction commentary section
C. What do I need to write?
a. Instruction commentary (no more than 6 single spaced pages)
D. How will the evidence of my teaching practice be assessed?
a. 5 rubrics
b. Learning environment
c. Engaging students in learning
d. Deepening student learning

e. Subject-specific pedagogy
f. Analyzing teaching effectiveness
E. What to submit
a. Video clips
b. Instructional commentary
Assessment Task 3: Assessing Student Learning
A. What do I need to think about?
a. Gathering evidence of what students learned
b. Provide meaningful feedback
c. Using evidence of what your students know and are able to do to plan next steps
in instruction
d. Explaining students use of language that demonstrates content understanding
B. What do I need to do?
a. Select one assessment from your learning segment to evaluate students
developing knowledge and skills
b. Define and submit the evaluation criteria
c. Collect and analyze student work
d. Select 3 student work samples
i. Your focus students
ii. At least 1 must be a student with specific learning needs
e. Document the feedback you gave to each focus student
C. What do I need to write?
a. Assessment commentary
D. How will the evidence of my teaching practice be assessed?
a. 5 rubrics
b. Analysis of student learning
c. Providing feedback to guide further learning
d. Student use of feedback
e. Analyzing students language use and literacy learning
f. Using assessment to inform instruction
E. What to submit
a. Student work samples
b. Evidence of feedback
c. Assessment commentary

Professional Responsibilities
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Protect confidentiality
Acquire permissions
Cite sources
Align instruction with state standards
Follow the guidelines for candidate support

Academic Language

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Language demands
Language functions
Vocabulary
Discourse
Syntax
Language supports