Margaret Moss Sister Nancy Gilchriest St. Joseph’s College NYSATE/NYACTE FALL, 2014

Focused on edTPA Worked with Commentaries

edTPA  FALL SEMESTER  SPRING SEMESTER

 In a response of approximately 100–200 words, identify which author presents a more compelling argument. Your response must:  outline the specific claims made in each passage;  evaluate the validity, relevance, and sufficiency of evidence used to support each claim; and  include examples from both passages to support your evaluation.  Your response should be written for an audience of educated adults. With the exception of appropriately identified quotations and paraphrases from the sources provided, your writing must be your own. The final version of your response should conform to the conventions of edited American English.

 In a response of approximately 100–200 words, explain how the information presented in bar graph can be integrated with the author's central argument about the weak literacy skills of American adults in Passage B. Your response must:  explain how specific information presented in the graph either supports or counters the author's claims, reasoning, and evidence with regard to the level of literacy; and  include examples from the passage and the graph to support your explanation.  Your response should be written for an audience of educated adults. With the exception of appropriately identified quotations and paraphrases from the sources provided, your writing must be your own. The final version of your response should conform to the conventions of edited American English.

 In an essay in your own words of approximately 400–600 words, present a fully developed argument that introduces and supports a claim assessing the strengths and weaknesses of preparing students to be literate graduates of high school. Your argument must:  include a knowledgeable claim that demonstrates an understanding of the topic;  use valid reasoning that draws on and extends the arguments in the sources provided;  support your claim with relevant and sufficient evidence from all three sources; and anticipate and address at least one counterclaim.

U.S. adults lag most countries in literacy, math and computer skills Lyndsey Layton October 8, 2013Lyndsey Layton  Policymakers and politicians who wring their hands about the mediocre performance of U.S. students on international math and reading tests have another worry: The nation’s grown- ups aren’t doing much better. mediocre  A first-ever comparison of adults in the United States and those in other democracies found that Americans were below average when it comes to skills needed to compete in the global economy.  The survey, released Tuesday, measured the literacy, math and computer skills of about 5,000 U.S. adults between ages 16 and 65, and compared them with similar samples of adults from 21 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey, released Tuesday

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