Ed TPA Spanish What is ahead of us

Ed. TPA Spanish What is ahead of us and how do we proceed? Dr. E. Delgado-Norris

The ed. TPA, asks candidates to compile a Portfolio �Featuring a learning segment: a 3 -5 lesson unit �Broken down into 3 tasks 1. Planning Instruction & Assessment 2. Instructing & Engaging Students in Learning 3. Assessing Student Learning �Attention to academic language and analyzing teaching throughout �Documented with evidence �Candidate commentaries �Instructional artifacts, including student work � 1 -2 unedited video clips of teacher-student interaction

• How do plans build conceptual understanding, fluency in skills/procedures, and reasoning/problem solving skills? Plans are focused, coherent, aligned with standards • How does the candidate use knowledge of his/her students to target support for students’ development of conceptual understanding, fluency in skills/procedures, and reasoning/problem solving skills? Plans are connected to what candidates know about the students they will teach, as well as the content • How do the informal and formal assessments provide evidence of student progress toward the standards/objectives? The assessments correspond to each objective and will render evidence of students’ progress.

Everything starts with Planning for rich experiences in the classroom

Preparing teacher candidates Fundamental experiences • Getting to know students • Developing elaborate lesson plans • Writing explicit and appropriate justification • Developing and applying appropriate assessment criteria • Reflecting with a focus on what students could and could not do as a result of instruction • Critiquing observations with a focus on engaging students in learning • Surfacing and supporting the discourse demands of the discipline

Resources adapted from http: //edtpa. aacte. org/about-edtpa