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edTPA

Tasks and the Cycle of Effective Teaching

The three edTPA tasks represent a cycle of effective teaching (i.e., teaching that is focused on student learning). Planning Task 1 documents your intended teaching, Instruction Task 2 documents your enacted teaching, and Assessment Task 3 documents the impact of your teaching on student learning.

Key edTPA Supports:

1. The Making Good Choices Guide is a support document that will help you make critical decisions as you complete your edTPA tasks. (Special Education Making Good Choices Guide)

2. Introduction to edTPA PowerPoint and overview video here.

3. The edTPA Search Engine - a walkthrough of each task as well as resources for completing edTPA.

4. Understanding Rubric Level Progressions - a document to guide analyzing the rubrics (a.k.a. the answer key!).

5. Academic Language Resources

Each language demand is defined in the glossary of your handbook.

The Understanding Academic Language in edTPA: Supporting Learning and Language Development guide gives you a basic overview of Academic Language for each subject area. Each guide is located below. 

Another valuable resource is the website of Understanding Language, the center that recently merged with SCALE.

6. Thinking Organizers - Tools for organizing your responses, which feature sentence stems and/or graphic organizers for individual prompt responses.

7.  Top Ten Tips for edTPA Success