Authentic work completed by you and your focus learner, including lesson plans, copies of instructional and assessment materials, video clips of your teaching and the learner's work samples.
What are ARTIFACTS?
100
Subject-specific evaluation criteria used to score your performance on edTPA.
What are RUBRICS?
100
The designed physical and emotional context, established and maintained throughout the learning segment to support a positive and productive learning experience.
What is LEARNING ENVIRONMENT?
100
Submitted as part of each task, and along with artifacts, make up your evidence. Written to explain the rationale behind your teaching decisions and to analyze and reflect on what you have learned about your teaching practice and the learning of your focus learner.
What is COMMENTARY?
100
A set of 3 lessons that build upon another toward a learning goal, with a clearly defined beginning and end.
What is LEARNING SEGMENT?
200
Information that describes pre-instruction levels of knowledge or skill. (e.g. teacher made tests, CBMs, task analysis assessments, IEP present levels of performance)
What is BASELINE DATA?
200
A process in which a teacher adds supports for learners to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks.
What is SCAFFOLDING?
200
Extending or probing ahead of a learner's current knowledge or performance level
What is CHALLENGE?
200
These are adopted by states for learners with the most significant cognitive disabilities and are based on the grade-level content, but at reduced depth, breadth, and complexity.
What are ALTERNATE OR MODIFIED ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS?
200
An activity that engages the focus learner in developing, practicing, generalizing and/or maintaining knowledge skills related to one or more specific lesson objectives.
What is LEARNING TASK?
300
Using instructional and motivational strategies that promote active involvement of the learner in learning tasks designed to support acquisition and application of knowledge and skills related to specific lesson objectives.
What is ENGAGING THE LEARNER?
300
This involves teaching learners to modify and regulate their own behavior without external control and allow them to become active participants in their own learning.
What is SELF DIRECTED LEARNING STRATEGIES?
300
When candidates explain what students cannot do based primarily on learners' cultural or linguistic backgrounds, the challenges they face outside of school, or lack of family support. This can lead to a pattern of a candidates demonstrating low expectations relative to the learner's potential.
What is DEFICIT THINKING?
300
Receiving and conveying information, meanings, concepts or feelings. These are specific ways that communication is used by learners to participate in learning tasks.
What are COMMUNICATION SKILLS?
300
In behavior assessment, term used to describe the extent to which a learner's behavior is self-sustaining over time.
What is MAINTENANCE?
400
The desired learning outcomes for the learning segment.
What are KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS?
400
A close, harmonious relationship in which the people or groups understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well with each other.
What is RAPPORT?
400
Consistent with a learner's chronological age
What is AGE APPROPRIATE?
400
The transfer of learned information from particular instances to other environments, people, time, and events.
What is GENERALIZATION?
400
Measurable learning outcomes for each lesson that, over time and combined with other instructional objectives, enable a learner to reach a learning goal.
What are LESSON OBJECTIVES?
500
What learners know and are able to do prior to new instruction.
What is PRIOR LEARNING?
500
Consists of artifacts that document how you planned and implemented instruction AND commentaries that explain your plans and what is seen in the videorecording or examine what you learned about your teaching practice and the resulting learning.
What is EVIDENCE?
500
Can be personal, cultural or community. Refers to specific, cultural, and common background information that learners bring to the learning environment.
What are ASSETS?
500
A short-term learner outcome that is achieved over time by meeting related lesson objectives. What the focus learner will know or be able to do by the end of three lessons.
What is LEARNING GOAL?
500
Refers to all those activities undertaken by teachers and by their learners that provide information to be used as feedback to modify teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged.