1. Work Session Expectations:
Sign in & sit next to content peer for collaboration
One person speaks at a time, others listen
Phones muted and unattended during the session
Fold paper as directed – Print first and last name & Content area
on both sides
Have your EdTPA Assessment Handbook accessible

2. Kids: a barrel of laughs Share Something crazy

3. Instructional Flow 1. Central Focus and Key Understandings
Academic Language
Task 1A-Context for Learning and Task 1B-Lesson Plans
4. Q & A: Assurance of Understanding

4. Resources for Task One: Planning
edTPA Assessment Handbook Making Good Choices Academic Language Supports TEAM Rubric Rubric Level Progressions Andra Helton – office: cell:
Resources for Task One: Planning

5. Central focus (Key understandings and skills you want students to develop within the learning segment)
Begin with the end in Mind
Include: Key learning tasks to
scaffold learning from simple
to complex

6. -
Alignment Across the Learning Segment is Key!

7. What is the Academic Language of my Discipline?
“The set of words, grammar, and organizational strategies used to describe complex ideas, higher-order thinking processes, and abstract concepts” Zwiers

8. The Academic Language Fit: Intentionally embed the language demands in each day’s lesson plan with language supports to ensure understanding and use of the language by students
LANGUAGE DEMANDS:
LANGUAGE SUPPORTS: Instructional Strategy by Teacher or Instructional Activity by Student
Language Function ex. Evaluate research data
Lang. Support: Model how to evaluate research data
on marketing trends
Vocabulary ex. Sub Specific – market
General Acad – evaluate
Discipline Def – income, expenses
Lang. Support: Review vocabulary and word chart
Discourse ex. Evaluate and describe marketing trends based on local marketing research data
Lang. Support: Model how to describe marketing
trends in narrative form and oral explanation
Syntax ex. Create a spreadsheet
Lang. Support: Provide examples of 2 types of spreadsheet models for describing marketing trends

9. Peer Review of Academic Language Demands (10 minutes)
1. Open the Academic Language Support for your Content Area. Read the definitions for
* Language Function * Vocabulary
Discourse * Syntax
2. Ask your partner to restate the definition in his/her own words for each language demand.
3. Review the examples of each demand. Highlight or underline each and save it.
4. Identify the support for each demand. Brainstorm an additional supports for each demand.

10. Language Demands and Supports
EdTPA Handbook : Planning Commentary Question 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d

11. Task 1A: Context for Learning
Review Exemplar Samples
Use N/A When a Response Does Not Apply
Include as Much Information as Possible to Describe the Learning Environment
For Many of You: One of Your Focus Students Will One Listed Here With a Specific Learning Need
Remove the Examples Provided on the Template

12. 1. Review Specifications for Task 1B 2
1. Review Specifications for Task 1B 2. Use EdTPA Lesson Plan Template 3. Consider whole class, small groups & individual needs 4. Provide supports for challenge and weakness 5. Focus: student engagement and student communication of thinking and understandings 6. Use TEAM rubric as guide
Task 1B: Lesson Plans

13. Review Examples of Quality Lesson Plans,
Take 15 minutes to review the examples of quality work and discuss them with your content area partners.
Review Examples of Quality Lesson Plans,

14. Assurance of Understanding
What questions do you have to guide understanding and support for completing your Task 1A-Context for Learning and Task 1B-Lesson Plans?
Assurance of Understanding

15. What Next? We are Family! Submit Task 1A and 1B on LiveText
Draft- Saturday (9:00 pm)
Final-Desktop Folder Tuesday (9:00 pm)
2. Begin creating informal and formal assessments, and choose instructional materials that align with your central focus.
3. Bring completed drafts of Tasks 1A and 1B to Seminar Two.
We are Family!