I was working on a draft of the ‘edTPA Lesson Plan’ portion
of my final unit plan project today and found myself becoming increasingly frustrated.
I was taking a stab at each of the sections but kept feeling like I didn’t know
exactly what belonged in each box. After lamenting my difficulty finding any
succinct guide in a quick online search, I decided to take a break from the
lesson plan for the time being and work on my blog post assignment for tomorrow,
and boy am I glad I did!
The readings for this blog post were pretty much exactly what
I was looking for. Up until now, I haven’t received any direct instruction on
the edTPA format, and I found that while comprehensive, on its own the lesson
plan format isn’t necessarily intuitive. I know what “Lesson Connections”
means, but it’s difficult to remember everything
that that one section can contain when the only prompt is “Lesson
Connections”.
The “EWU edTPA Lesson Plan Guidelines” article was particularly
helpful in that it succinctly and clearly laid out each section of the edTPA
Lesson Plan document and asked questions to direct how one might fill out each.
Reading it was kind of like taking a quick look at each section under a
microscope: the details really started to become more visible. When I take
another crack at my edTPA Lesson Plan draft I plan to make direct use of this
article.
The “edTPA Making Good Choices” article was also helpful but
in a different way. It was not as succinct or easily applicable as EWU’s
Guidelines but it did give a better glimpse at the big picture of the edTPA. It
also gave some better descriptions of the more nuanced parts of the edTPA, like
the descriptions of how and what kinds of research to include in the “How
specific do my references to research and theory have to be?” section. This
article might be more difficult to apply directly to the lesson that I am
planning right now, but it will be a great reference to turn to when I feel
like the EWU Guidelines aren’t quite enough.
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