1. How the edTPA has been educative
The “ed” in edTPA:
How the edTPA has been educative

2. Barbara A. Burns, PhD
Canisius College

3. Getting Ready
Please pick up a card from the front of the room to correspond with the following edTPA roles:
Faculty member working with edTPA candidates - Pink
Scorer of edTPA Blue
EPP working with data Purple
Supervisor working with edTPA candidates - Yellow
School districts/cooperating teachers - Green
Candidates White

4. Educative

5. Educative intended or serving to educate or enlighten; educational
- dictionary.com

6. Group Work
In your small group, please list 3 – 5 ways that the edTPA has been educative for your group.

7. Carousel
As a group, please go to a poster that is not your group. You will skip your group as you’ve already provided that information. As you rotate through the stations, please list a few ways that the edTPA should be educative for that group. Use the marker corresponding to your group color.

8. Faculty Reflect and revise program work and individual classes
Data illustrate if teaching is working
Showing where gaps are in candidate preparation

9. Scorer Know what to tell candidates Language to use
Information about the scoring process (can only look at one task at a time)

10. EPP Providing data to allow to assess program
Forced conversations across campus
Consistency among common sections (everyone video tapes, etc.)

11. Supervisors May have become scorers
Provide communication among candidate, cooperating teacher, and faculty

12. School Districts/Cooperating Teachers
Slowly discovering it can be a useful tool for hiring
Examining their own practices

13. Candidates Reflect on practice Analyze and use data from student work
Videotape – get an opportunity to see themselves teach
Academic language – they see how they may be (mis)understood

14. Take-aways
The edTPA needs to be looked at holistically – all players have an effect
Would we have ever examined teacher performance to this degree without edTPA?
Profession is being reflective
Conversations among the participants bring together all perspectives
Provides logistical advice for administration of edTPA

15.
Thank You!