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Source: National Education Association
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...Called a Teacher Performance Assessment—But that Doesn’t Mean it is One
...Privileges Certain Student Teaching Placements
...Scoring is Inconsistent
...Shifts the Focus of the Student Teaching experience to Test Preparation
...Privileges Candidates and Institutes of Certain Financial Status
...Privileges Candidates from Certain Linguistic and Cultural Backgrounds
...Technology Requirements Privilege Certain Candidates and Institutions
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Audience: Professors, MAT Students
Relevance: We must pass the edTPA
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Buyer Beware: Lessons Learned from edTPA Implementation in New York State
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David,
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting take on what we are to perform for our license here in Oregon. I appreciate you bringing this critical perspective to the table to help our understanding of what this edTPA is. I am slightly disturbed by this article in many ways, but the one part that impacted me the most is that this program requires student teachers to be proficient with data-analysis skills, but is moving away from the importance of aspects like fostering a positive environment and relationship building skills. A read that opened my eyes. Thank you for sharing.
“We used to share successes and challenges in seminar, working together, digging deep. Now all we seem to do is go through the handbook page by page to make sure we understand what is expected of our students.” I absolutely agree with this statement. I feel sometimes that we are so focused on producing this edTPA product that we are missing out on vital training that we could be doing; delving deeper into individual interest areas, perhaps. However, saying that, it is interesting to watch oneself in the videos. It has helped my teaching by allowing me to observe things I do unconsciously while teaching.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you brought this article to my attention David. I am trying to understand the meaning of this new 'hoop' teachers must complete in order to teach. We have such a huge shortage nationwide for quality teachers and making things so difficult has many potentially fantastic teachers making the choice to not enter the profession. While there may be some positive things we learn about ourselves, is this teaching classroom management and relationship building?
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