Teaching performance assessment, or TPA, is both a
lesson planning guide and a large project that showcases your work as a
teacher. There are many steps in both aspects of TPA’s and each step was
specifically selected to analyze how a teacher candidate thinks about the
teaching process as a whole. EdTPA gives teacher candidates different aspects
of the teaching profession to be analyzed on in order to make sure the
candidate possesses the competency to be a successful teacher.
Planning, instruction, assessment, and reflection on
student learning are the key components to the edTPA as well as to the teaching
profession and are imperative to not only you personally but to the success of
all your students. Time-management is a highly important aspect when it comes
to being successful in the submission of one’s edTPA. Because the project is
quite extensive it is important to set smaller achievement goals for oneself
rather than leave the entirety of the project to the last minute. While the
time-management portion is not required or officially assessed, your mentors
will be assessing this fact as an important aspect of the profession. Along
with your mentors, the professionals who review your edTPA will be looking for
the best quality of work you can provide. This means that leaving time to
review your work and revise it is crucial.
The teacher preparation program is an extensive one
and the edTPA is just one of many checkpoints a teacher candidate must past in
order to become a licensed teacher. The desire to be treated as professionals
as well as the overall care and concern for the well-being and success of
students is what causes such a need for mass amounts of assessment and
preparation for every aspect of the teaching career. Making good decisions in
what to include and how to include it into one’s edTPA is an important step for
teacher candidates and for good reason. Teachers need to be as equip for the
job as possible.
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