Professional Responsibilities
Planning for Task 1
Elementary Literacy 1
Elementary Literacy 2
Elementary Literacy 3
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you will remove your name and use pseudonyms or general references (e.g., “the district”) for your state, school, district, and cooperating teacher. Mask or remove all names on any typed or written material (e.g., commentaries, lesson plans, student work samples) that could identify individuals or institutions. During videorecording, you will use students’ first names only.
What is to protect confidentiality?
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Context for Learning Information
What is Part A?
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Specific ways that academic language (vocabulary, functions, discourse, syntax) is used by students to participate in learning tasks through reading, writing, listening, and/or speaking to demonstrate their disciplinary understanding.
What is language demands?
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Authentic work completed by you and your students, including lesson plans, copies of instructional and assessment materials, video clips of your teaching, and student work samples.
What are artifacts?
100
instructional and motivational strategies that promote students’ active involvement in learning tasks that increase their knowledge, skills, and abilities related to specific learning objectives.
What is engagement in learning? (How is this different from participation and how do you achieve this?)
200
Before you begin to record your classroom instruction...
What is ensure that you have the appropriate permission from the parents/guardians of your students and from adults who appear in the video recording?
200
Part B: Lesson Plans for Learning Segment is __________ in length.
What is 3–5 lesson plans (submitted in 1 file)?
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The content and language focus of the learning task, represented by the active verbs within the learning outcomes. ...in the language arts - identifying main ideas and details; analyzing and interpreting characters and plots; arguing a position or point of view; predicting; evaluating or interpreting an author’s purpose, message, and use of setting, mood, or tone; comparing ideas within and between texts; and so on.
What is language functions?
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“[R]efer[s] to all those activities undertaken by teachers and by their students . . . that provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities.” __________ provides evidence of students’ prior knowledge, thinking, or learning in order to evaluate what students understand and how they are thinking.
What is assessment?
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approach selected deliberately by a reader or writer to comprehend or compose text. (And the reason you teach this is…) When students are able to select and use strategies automatically, they have achieved independence in using the strategy to accomplish reading and writing goals.
What is an essential literacy strategy?
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to all materials that you did not create (e.g., published texts, websites, and material from other educators) you will...
What is cite sources?
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sequenced instructional materials as they are used.
What is the learning segment?
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words and phrases that are used within disciplines, including: (1) words and phrases with subject-specific meanings that differ from meanings used in everyday life (e.g., table); (2) general academic vocabulary used across disciplines (e.g., compare, analyze, evaluate); and (3) subject-specific words defined for use in the discipline.11
What is vocabulary?
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includes student questions and responses during instruction and teacher observations of students as they work or perform.
What are examples of informal assessment?
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...the specific strategy for comprehending or composing text that you will teach across your learning segment lessons. It should be clearly tied to your segment’s central focus and stem from that big, overarching idea for student learning in literacy.
What is the essential literacy strategy?
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As part of the assessment, you will document the alignment of your lesson plans with.
What is with CCSS from NCDPI?
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Begin with the end in mind when thinking of ______ for your lessons.
What are assessments?
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includes the structures of written and oral language, as well as how members of the discipline talk, write, and participate in knowledge construction.
What is discourse?
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quizzes, homework assignments, journals, projects, and performance tasks.
What are examples of formal assessments?
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summarizing a story, comparing and contrasting firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event, using evidence to predict, interpreting a character’s feelings, or drawing conclusions from informational text. ____________ for writing include organizing ideas before writing, note taking from informational text to support drafting a topic, using graphic organizers to organize writing, using a rubric to revise a draft, or using quotes as evidence to support an argument.
What are example strategies for reading?
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Location where you follow the guidelines for candidate support as you develop your evidence for edTPA.
What is www.edTPA.com?
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Do this before teaching the learning segment.
What is to respond to prompts?
500
The scaffolds, representations, and pedagogical strategies teachers provide to help learners understand, use, and practice the concepts and language they need to learn within disciplines (Santos, Darling-Hammond, Cheuk, 2012).14 The ______________ planned within the lessons in edTPA should directly support learners to understand and use identified language demands (vocabulary, language function, and discourse or syntax) to deepen content understandings.
What are language supports?
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description of the important understandings and core concepts that you want students to develop within the learning segment. ...beyond a list of facts and skills, align with content standards and learning objectives, and address the subject-specific components in the learning segment. In elementary literacy, an overarching, big idea for student learning in literacy. The subject-specific components for the elementary literacy ___________ also include (a) an essential literacy strategy tied to the central focus and (b) related skills.
What is the central focus?
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Performance indicators or dimensions that are used to assess evidence of student learning. They indicate the qualities by which levels of performance can be differentiated and that anchor judgments about the learner’s degree of success on an assessment. __________ can be represented in various ways, such as a rubric, a point system for different levels of performance, or rules for awarding full versus partial credit. _______ may examine correctness/accuracy, cognitive complexity, sophistication or elaboration of responses, or quality of explanations.
What is/are evaluation criteria?
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