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edTPA Guidelines & Making Good Choices -- Blog Post #9

edTPA Guidelines & Making Good Choices response

I found the edTPA guidelines and making good choices papers as a fairly solid framework for lesson plans and refining them. The guidelines list the basics and then offers questions to narrow down the lesson. As a teacher this is helpful because is tells me as a teacher that I need to have these things for a complete lesson and understand and that I need to know how I want to evaluate my students' work. I also like the section specifically about students answering statements about how and what they're learning to see how far they are progressing. That way I know where they're at in the lesson and if I need to review anything. Also, the last two sections focus on the safety of the lesson and the environment it places the students in as well as connecting to parents and the community. It has the teacher use those sections to express their rationale.

The step-by-step process provided in the Making Good Choices article made the form seem less intimidating. Particularly on stylizing - inserting bullet points, responding to each sentence and focusing on prepositions to make sure everything is covered. Keeping things organized and how to set up rubrics were important to me as well as the criteria has often been something I'm confused about. Though I find rubrics to be very helpful and plan to use one for the essay assignment I have planned in my three-week unit plan. It's nice to have a guide on that and it proved to be a helpful resource and was what stuck out for me during my initial read through. Though the information isn't new to me and is pretty black and white for the most part, I agree with several of the organization tips.

It makes it a lot easier to fill out the template when it's thought of as three separate sections: planning a task, instruction task, and assessment task. I understand the importance of submitting these templates - they're there to ensure that educators can define and rationalize what they're doing, not just for themselves and the school but for the students and parents as it connects to all of them. Breaking it down into learning segments with a singular focus makes it easier for the students to know what they're learning and for the teacher to connect and build on them. Wile it also assesses the knowledge of students and informs the teacher how well they're learning and if certain ideas need more understanding to help with improvement.

Also, guidelines on other things that need to be regulated, i.e. consent for video recording was interesting to read about as well so it's easier to handle that sort of media and how to properly approach it. Feedback and Assessment were also key parts as the assessment defines if the standards are met and the feedback determines if the lesson and assessment were successful for the students. All in all, I agreed with many of the methods in the Making Good Choices article and how they correlate and help fill in the blanks for the lesson plan guideline templates.

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