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edTPA Simulation


While going through this course one of the requirements was to do a practice edTPA practice on our fieldwork experience.  What edTPA is, it is a collection of three different tasks and within those tasks are different subsections.  In each of these subsections, I had to upload different documents based on what I did in my fieldwork.  


The first task was on planning and the different materials, assessments, and lesson plans that I used in my fieldwork.  I had to take a picture of all of the materials that I used for each of the lessons that I taught and put them into a document to upload.  For the assessments section, I had to again take pictures of the three different assessments for each lesson and upload them in a document.  It is edTPA formate to put everything in pictures and have very little words.  The next section was putting my lesson plan on a document and putting that up.  The last section was a commentary on my planning for my lessons.  This was the most time consuming and hardest section, I thought.  This section involved thinking about the different concepts that the students would learn throughout the unit, the different assessments that would be used, and the different strategies that will be used to teach the students the material.

The second task was on my teaching and the commentary that went along with the video that I posted.  I had to post a 10-minute clip of me teaching and engaging/interacting with the students through the lesson.  I then had to fill out my commentary on the lesson that I taught.  The commentary was about how I got the students engaged in the lesson and the different strategies that I used when I was teaching.

 The last task was about the assessments that I used when I was teaching.  I picked one of the assessments that I gave the students and I had to grade and write feedback on the students work.  This allowed me to see how the students were understanding the material that I was teaching and what they may need reinforcement on.  I also had to provide commentary for this section as well, about how the feedback would help the students.  

 Overall I think it was a good experience getting to practice edTPA before actually doing it.  I got to see what it was like and I now feel a little more prepared for the future.

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