Brittany Barron

ETE 310 outline

February 4, 2015
edTPA Outline
1) Purpose
a) To assess future teachers on developing knowledge and applying
it to students needs. They must consider research and reflect on
the evidence on students learning.
2) Overview
a) Tasks (four categories)
i) Planning for literacy instruction and assessment
ii) Instruction and engaging students in literacy learning
iii) Assessing students literacy learning
iv) Assessing students mathematic learning
b) Student learning
i) Planning
ii) Assessment
iii) Instruction
c) Artifacts
i) Work completed by you and your students (i.e. lesson plans,
copies of assessment and instructional materials, video clips
of your teaching, and student work samples)
d) Commentaries
i) Describing the artifacts. Explain and analyze what you have
learned about your teaching practice. Must be focused and
clearly written
e) Evaluation
i) Each student will be judged on these 5 components
(1)Planning
(2)Instruction
(3)Assessment
(4)Analyzing teaching
(5)Academic language
3) Structure
a) Task 1: Planningforliteracyinstructionandassessment
i) What do I need to think about?
(1)Your plans for the learning segment
(2)You must explain how the instruction is suitable for the
students and the content fits with what you are planning
on doing
ii) What I need to do?
(1)Essential information on your school/ classroom
(2)Plan a segment to plan, teach, and analyze
(3)Find a central focus
(4)Language demands
(5)Submit the original lesson plans

iii) What I need to write?

(1)Planning commentary
(a) A description of the context for learning
(b)Lesson plans
(c) Planning commentary
iv) Assessment
(1)Rubrics (5)
b) Task 2: Instructing and engaging students in literacy learning
i) What do I need to think about?
(1)Learning environments
(2)Learning tasks
(3)How will you build on student responses
ii) What I need to do
(1)Permission for video recording
(2)Examine your plans
(3)Identify the lessons to video record
(4)Weather or not you feature the whole class or a targeted
groups
(5)Respond to prompts
(6)Determine if extra material is needed
iii) What I need to write
(1)Instructional commentary
(a) Positive learning environment
(b)Engaging students in learning
(c) Deepening student learning during instruction
(d)Analyzing teaching
iv) Assessment
(1)Literacy Instruction rubrics (5)
c) Task 3: Assessing students literacy learning
i) What do I need to think about
(1)How will you gather your evidence
(2)How you will provide meaningful feedback to your students
(3)Evidence of what the students know and are able to do to
plan next steps in instruction
ii) What I need to do
(1)Determine the assessment from your learning segment you
will use
(a) The essential literacy strategy
(b)Requisite skills
(2)Define and submit the evaluation criteria
(3)Respond to the prompt
iii) What I need to write
(1)Literacy assessment commentary
(a) Analyzing student learning
(b)Feedback to guide further learning
(c) Evidence of language understanding and use

(d)Using assessment to inform instruction

iv) Assessment
(1)5 rubrics
d) Task 4: Assessing students mathematics learning
i) What do I need to think about
(1)Think about analyzing whole class and their patterns of
learning
(2)Use it to analyze mathematical errors
ii) What I need to do
(1)Select a class
(2)Provide context information
(3)Identify a learning segment
(4)Identify a central focus
(5)Briefly describe the instruction
iii) What I need to write
(1)Mathematics Assessment commentary
(a) Analyzing student learning- whole class learning
(i) Identify the specific learning objectives and
standards
(ii) Use a graph to show the data of the students
learning
(iii) Use examples from summary chart and discuss
patterns of learning that are relative to
1. Conceptual understanding
2. Procedural fluency
3. Mathematical reasoning/problem-solving skills
(2)Analyzing student learning
iv) Assessment
(1)Rubrics 3