Foundations of Reading
This foundational reading concept refers to the understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language (subarea 1).
What is the alphabetic principle?
PIE 3 stands for these key responsibilities expected of all WSSU teacher candidates.
What is Professionals Prepare, Plan, Instruct, and Evaluate?
This developmental theorist outlined four stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This component of a lesson plan describes what students should know or be able to do by the end of the lesson.
What are objectives?
In North Carolina, teacher candidates must achieve this minimum passing score on the edTPA to meet state licensure requirements.
What is 38?
This method of teaching reading focuses on the relationship between letters and their corresponding sounds to help decode words (subarea 2).
What is phonics?
Educators show a commitment to growth and collaboration by joining these groups that support their field.
What are professional organizations?
This Harvard psychologist proposed the theory of multiple intelligences, identifying at least eight distinct types, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, and bodily-kinesthetic.
Who is Howard Gardner?
This part of the lesson plan details how the teacher will check if students understand the material during or after instruction.
What is assessment or independent practice?
This is the total number of tasks teacher candidates must complete and submit as part of the edTPA portfolio.
What is three?
This term refers to the way an author organizes information in a text, such as cause and effect, compare and contrast, or sequence (subarea 2).
What is text structure?
WSSU prepares educators to advocate for these three key values that promote fairness and student success.
What are inclusion, equity, and social justice?
According to this Russian psychologist, the Zone of Proximal Development is the gap between what a learner can do independently and what they can do with guidance.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This part of a lesson plan grabs students’ attention and activates prior knowledge at the start of the lesson.
What is the focus and review (hook or introduction)?
This task requires teacher candidates to submit videos of their teaching and explain how they engage students and deliver instruction effectively.
What is Task 2 (Implementation of Instruction)?
This teaching approach involves tailoring instruction to meet individual students’ needs, including varying content, process, product, or learning environment (subarea 3).
What is differentiated instruction?
WSSU-trained educators are expected to serve as these, speaking up for the needs and rights of all learners.
What are social justice advocates (or educational advocates)?
This psychologist is known for creating a hierarchy of needs, often depicted as a pyramid, with physiological needs at the base and self-actualization at the top.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This instructional strategy involves breaking lessons into manageable chunks and providing support as needed.
What is scaffolding?
Three handbooks have been recommended to support me in successfully completing the edTPA.
What are Content Specific, Making Good Choices, and Understanding Rubric Level Progression handbooks?
These are the learning goals and expectations set by each state to guide what students should know and be able to do at each grade level (subarea 4).
What are standards?
Professionals improve their cultural competence and fairness in teaching by acknowledging and addressing these.
What are personal biases?
This theorist proposed eight psychosocial stages of development, each defined by a central conflict such as “identity vs. role confusion” in adolescence.
Who is Erik Erikson?
This phase of the lesson allows students to apply what they’ve learned independently, reinforcing new skills.
What is independent practice?
This teaching approach emphasizes active student engagement, collaboration, and learner-centered activities, which is highly valued in the edTPA assessment.
What is student-centered instruction?