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Nuts & Bolts
That's so edTPA
100

Detailed enough that a substitute teacher could use them.

What is Lesson plan?

100

A set of 3-5 lessons that build upon one another toward a central focus with a clearly defined beginning and end.

What is a learning segment?

100
15
What is the total number of rubrics used to evaluate your edTPA?
100

Planning, Instruction, Assessment

What are the three edTPA tasks?

100
Oral and written language used for academic purposed.
What is academic language?
200

Required prior to videorecording your learning segment.

What is Video consent forms?

200
Words and phrases used within the discipline.
What is vocabulary?
200

A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well with each other.

What is Rapport?

200
The structures of written and oral language, as well as how members of the discipline talk, write, and participate in knowledge construction. For example, an artist statement or critique.
What is discourse?
200
A performance-based assessment used to measure novice teachers' readiness to teach in their content area.
What is the edTPA?
300
40

What is the minimum edTPA passing score for Tennessee?

300
Type of assessment that may include, for example, quizzes, homework assignments, journals, projects, and performance tasks.
What is a formal assessment?
300
Includes personal, cultural, and community and is used to inform curriculum and instruction.
What is knowledge of students' assets?
300

Student learning outcomes to be achieved by the end of the lesson or learning segment.

What is Learning objectives?

300
Required templates that provide an opportunity to describe your artifacts, explain the rationale behind your choices, and analyze what you learned about your teaching practice and what students' learned.
What are the commentaries?
400
Document used to supply information about your school/classroom context.
What is Context for Learning?
400
Instructional strategies, learning tasks and materials, and other resources deliberately designed to facilitate student learning of the central focus. e.g. an anchor chart
What are planned supports?
400

Performance indicators or dimensions that are used to assess evidence of student learning. eg. checklist. 

What is Evaluation Criteria? 

400
As required by edTPA, a description of the important understandings and core concepts that you want students to develop within the learning segment.
What is the central focus?
400
The content and language focus of the learning task represented by the active verbs within the learning outcomes. e.g. interpreting
What is language function?
500

A combination of artifacts that document your planning and implemented instruction and commentaries that explain your plans and what is seen in the videorecordings.

What is evidence?

500
According to edTPA, the students in your class who may require different strategies or support.
What is "variety of learners?"
500
The designed physical and emotional context, established and maintained through the learning segment to support a positive and productive experience for students.
What is the learning environment?
500

Indicate in a numerical way the information understood from the assessment. (e.g., 10 out of 15 students or 20% of the students)

What are quantitative patterns of learning?

500

Used to justify your instructional strategies, planned supports, and adaptations of learning tasks and materials?

What is research or theory?

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