The Details
The size 11 font required for your edTPA
What is Arial?
It is critical to __________ __________ each task and part of your edTPA
What is clearly label? Ensure each task and part have clear and easy to find/follow names.
These are to be achieved by end of the learning experience
What are the learning objectives?
edTPA candidates can post their video clips on public websites (e.g. YouTube).
No, do not post your video clips on a public website. We must do our best to maintain anonymity of the students in the video clips.
To maintain anonymity, candidates should use only these when referring to students in the video clips
What are first names only?
There are 15 edTPA rubrics used to evaluate students from a with a low and high score of
What is 0-5?
This term refers to connections across multiple disciplines
What is interdisciplinary?
What is my teaching license?
The edTPA has been called this _____ exam for teaching
What is the bar exam?
Task 2 requires candidates to record two videos, one whole class (four students or more) and one small group (four students or less). When combined these videos cannot exceed this amount of minutes
This term refers to teaching practices for young children that promote learning through the engagement of all their senses
What is multi-modal nature of young children's learning?
Definition Continued:
utilizing varied
approaches to learning and to demonstrating that learning (i.e., integrated, meaningful
experiences that build on children's interests, nurture their curiosity, and respond to their
own unique styles of learning while scaffolding and challenging them to grow in lessdeveloped
areas). Use of technology should be developmentally appropriate, active and
engaging, support creativity, empower children’s construction of knowledge (e.g., digital
storytelling) and be one of many options to support learning.
The edTPA assessment costs
What is $300? Notify your instructor immediately if you do not plan to purchase the access code directly from Pearson (e.g. you want to buy the code from the bookstore).
The cut score for a passing edTPA assessment.
What is 39?
Task 3 requires students to collect what type of data?
What are qualitative (words) and quantitative (numbers)?
NOTE: This will be a topic of our week 6 Zoom meeting.
This type of language represents the language of the discipline that children need to learn and use to participate and engage in the content area in meaningful ways.
What is academic language?
It is important to plan varied supports for students w/different needs and explicitly state that in my lesson plans and commentary
Yes. However you do not write your justification for your plan for various supports in your lesson plan, only write about that in your commentary
The edTPA should be double or single-spaced with one inch margins.
What is single-spaced with one inch margins?
What is describe students clothing, location on the video (e.g. left or right), timestamps, and more)
This refers to practices for young children that promote learning through meaningful, relevant, and authentic experiences with materials and with people—
What is the Active Nature of Children's Learning?
Definition Continued:
by doing (engaging with open-ended,
multi-use, rich materials, play, physical action, hands-on experiments), and by having
relationships (engaging in conversations, generating, and asking questions), following their
own interests and curiosity, being able to make mistakes and learn from their mistakes,
learning to control impulses and regulate their emotions, and through the model of adults
(how they talk, act, treat each other, etc.).
For task three, you will select ONE common assessment from your learning segment to evaluate children's language and literacy development.
What is yes?