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  1. PDF TASK 3: ASSESSMENT COMMENTARY

    The edTPA trademarks are owned by The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Use of the edTPA trademarks is permitted only pursuant to the terms of a written license agreement. #12 4/6 6/6 Note: Student #8 is my pull-out special education student who received help on his assessment

  2. PDF TASK 3: ASSESSMENT COMMENTARY

    Students will be able to explain why some fluids flow more easily than others. Students will infer what factors determine viscosity of substances, including magma. Students will describe a fluid as having "high" or "low" viscosity. These objectives were created to meet Next Generation Science Standards MS-ESS2-1 and MS-ESS3-1, including ...

  3. edTPA Sample Passing Submissions (5 full examples)

    Before approaching any daunting task, it can be helpful to look at an example of a finished product. We reached out to our candidates and asked for sample submissions, and thanks to five amazing teachers, we have samples in the following subjects: TESOL K-12, Elementary Education K-6, Secondary Special Education 7-12, Secondary Mathematics 7-12 ...

  4. PDF The Basics of Assessing Student Learning

    Task 3 - Special Education INTRODUCTION Task 3 of the edTPA focuses on assessment. For Task 3, candidates will analyze the focus learner's progress toward meeting the learning goal. DESIGNING AN ASSESSMENT PLAN For success on Task 3, plan the learning segment while collecting baseline data. Collect this baseline

  5. PDF TASK 3: ASSESSMENT COMMENTARY

    The edTPA trademarks are owned by The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Use of the edTPA trademarks is permitted only pursuant to the terms of a written license agreement. TASK 3: ASSESSMENT COMMENTARY Respond to the prompts below (no more than 10 single-spaced pages, including prompts) by typing your responses within

  6. PDF Making Good Planning Choices Instruction in Special Education ...

    The questions that appear across tasks represent threads that tie all the tasks together, for example, your knowledge of the focus learner or the learning goal for the learning segment. 1This version of Making Good Choices in Special Education replaces earlier versions posted on the edTPA.com and edtpa.aacte.org websites.

  7. PDF TASK 3: ASSESSMENT COMMENTARY

    The edTPA trademarks are owned by The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Use of the edTPA trademarks is permitted only pursuant to the terms of a written license agreement. multiplication, you no longer would need to add, 9 + 9 + 9, for example, but rather, you could multiply 9 x 3.

  8. PDF TASK 3: ASSESSMENT COMMENTARY

    Analyzing Student Learning. a. Identify the specific learning objectives and standards measured by the assessment you chose for analysis. [The assessment I chose for this commentary was used to measure the following learning objectives: Using a declarative sentence, students will be able to explain the relationships of the five factors to the ...

  9. PDF Making Good Choices

    The three tasks that structure edTPA (Planning Task 1, Instruction Task 2, and Assessment Task 3) are connected together. Acquiring a complete understanding of the evidence that you need to submit in Tasks 2 and 3 will help guide you as you plan the learning segment for Planning Task 1. When reading through Instruction Task 2, make a note on ...

  10. All About Task 3, Part 2

    This video discusses the analysis that you must do as part of Task 3 of the edTPA.Intended to be viewed after part of this series. Appropriate for most handb...

  11. edTPA

    Inequitable Opportunity to Learn: Student Access to Certified and Experienced Teachers. (2020) Learning Policy Institute. NEA believes that all teachers should be "profession-ready" from their first day of being responsible for student learning. Use these resources to start preparing for the edTPA and other pre-service assessments.

  12. PDF The edTPA Assessment for Special Education Pre-Service Teachers

    The Assessment - Task 3 - The Focus Learner Work Sample - options available to you - Providing the assessment records and baseline data - Evidence of Feedback - more options ... a passing score on the Special Education edTPA portfolio assessment has become a requirement for teacher certification and/or the successful

  13. Task Three: Assessment

    edTPA. The Assessment Task consists of an analysis of student learning, providing feedback, and supporting student use of feedback. You will choose ONE assessment from your learning segment to analyze closely in a written commentary, provide samples of student work, and provide evidence of feedback for three focus students. Keep in mind that ...

  14. PDF SHU edTPA Checklist: Task 3 Assessment

    6. Respond to the Task 3 Commentary (available in Chalk and Wire, Part C). _____There are 4 prompts, most with subsections, and you must respond to all parts. Prompt 1: Analyzing student learning (A,B,C, rubric 11) Prompt 2: Feedback to guide further learning (A,B,C, rubrics 12 and 13) Prompt 3: Evidence of language understanding and use (A ...

  15. PDF 1. Analyzing Focus Learner(s)' Performance

    The edTPA trademarks are owned by The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Use of the edTPA trademarks is ... If a work sample is an excerpt from video from Task 2: Instructing and Engaging the Focus Learner(s), provide a time-stamp reference here. ... Special Education Assessment Commentary

  16. PDF Strategies for Feedback in Task 3 of the edTPA

    the individual. For example, a student who struggles with reading comprehension might benefit from a one-on-one conference that explains the feedback they received, whereas a student who is academically gifted might benefit from teaching the concept or skill to another student for an extension activity. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

  17. PDF Special Education Assessment Handbook

    The purpose of edTPA Special Education, a nationally available performance assessment, is to measure readiness to teach learners with identified disabilities. The assessment is designed with a focus on learning and principles from research and theory. It is based on findings that successful teachers.

  18. PDF Assessment Commentary Directions: no more than 8 single-spaced pages

    Lesson 1: 1. With prompting, my learner will apply the SQ3R process for reading comprehension by referring to a checklist and completing 5 out of the 5 steps. 2. When given a nonfiction text, my learner will compose a minimum of 4 questions about the text that tests for understanding and answer 75% of them correctly with verbal prompting. 3 ...

  19. EdTPA Special Education's Task 3: Assessment Commentary!

    This is the Assessment Commentary part of my edTPA Special Education submission. My target scholar was a 5th-grade learner who needed support in math. This contains all 4 tasks and was submitted on April 2020. This portfolio received an average point of 4 out of 5 in ALL domains and received a 51 out of 75. More specifically, I received all 4's ...

  20. Ace Your edTPA

    It's time to shine! If you are a candidate in one of the 600+ teacher preparation programs across the country, there's a good chance you're using edTPA—the classroom-based, subject-specific, performance assessment—to demonstrate your readiness to teach. And your friends at NEA are here to help. These eight tips are your road map to ...

  21. PDF Special Education edTPA: Supporting Candidates

    Lesson Two - 8/10 Trials; Lesson 3 - 9/10 Trials) § Use Increasingly Challenging Materials, Procedures, or Tasks § You could change the difficulty level of a task by increasing the number of items a learner must solve, by using a more challenging reading level, or by increasing the number of items in an array from which the learner must

  22. Task 3 Edtpa final.docx

    Special Education Task 3: Assessment Commentary focus learner initially struggled with performing two- steps equations. He could not isolate the x and perform inverse operations. For instance, in the problem x + 5 + 8. He could not perform inverse operations and write the inverse of five which is negative five and subtract negative five from the positive five on the left side of the equation.

  23. edTPA Task 3 Assessment Commentary.doc

    Special Education Task 3: Assessment Commentary SPE ASSESSMENT COMMENTARY Practice Task 3 Respond to the prompts below (no more than 8 single-spaced pages, including prompts) by typing your responses within the brackets following each prompt.Do not delete or alter the prompts. Commentary pages exceeding the maximum will not be scored. Attach the assessment you used to evaluate student ...