1. Preparing for the edTPA in Health and Physical Education
Stacy Furness
University of Wisconsin, River Falls

2. The edTPA or Education Teacher Performance Assessment, is a pre-service assessment that takes place during student teaching which is designed to determine whether or not a new teacher has the skills to become a licensed teacher.
The assessment includes a review of the teacher candidates’ authentic materials during student teaching, including lesson plans, videotapes and student assessments.
(Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Equity, 2012)
What is the edTPA?

3. Who is completing the edTPA?

4. What are the required elements of the edTPA?

5. What are the required elements of the edTPA?
Artifacts represent authentic work completed by teachers and students. These include the context for learning, lesson plans, copies of instructional and assessment materials, video clip(s) of teaching, and student work samples.
Commentaries are opportunities to describe artifacts, explain the rationale behind their choice, and analyze what you have learned about your teaching practice and your students’ learning. Note that although your writing ability will not be scored directly, commentaries must be clearly written and well focused.
(Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Equity, 2012)
What are the required elements of the edTPA?

6. How is the edTPA unique in Health and Physical Education?
HEALTH - How do the candidate’s plans build student use of functional health knowledge, demonstration of health-related skills, and development of beliefs and norms to help students adopt and maintain healthy behaviors?
PHYSICAL EDUCATION - How do the candidate’s plans provide for a safe environment and build on each other and include tasks that develop students’ competencies in the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains related to:
movement patterns
performance concepts and/or
health-enhancing fitness
How is the edTPA unique in Health and Physical Education?

7. Activity – Mind Map – List all words/phrases/concepts/ideas that come to mind when you think of this standard.
Activity….

8. Health Beliefs and Norms
Types of Lessons about Health Beliefs and Norms
Necessary Prior Academic Learning
Considerations for the Learning Environment
Strategies for Differentiated Instruction
Types of Assessment
Learning Tasks Needed to Ensure Adoption of Healthy Behaviors
Academic Language

9. How is the edTPA unique in Health and Physical Education?
Other ways edTPA Unique in Health/PE
Our Standards - NASPE/NHES
skill/behaviors in health
Psychomotor/affective domain in PE
Our Theories
Videotaping guidelines (in a gym)
Videotape assessment in PE – Keep it simple (three examples)
How is the edTPA unique in Health and Physical Education?

10. How can we embed the edTPA into our programs?
Map the edTPA across the curriculum to determine where each area is being covered and where you have holes
Faculty need to use common language across programs
Embed assessments across your curriculum
example – assessment content – build assessment into a lesson plan – assess learning in a field experience
example – case studies – of students and schools in field experiences to prepared for completing the Context for Learning
Practice modified edTPA’s in various courses leading up to student teaching
Provide many opportunities for writing deep reflections on lessons learned and observations
How can we embed the edTPA into our programs?

11. How can we embed the edTPA into our programs?
Adopt a lesson plan format that aligns to the edTPA
Utilize terms found in the edTPA: central focus, content standards, goals, objectives, prior knowledge, launch, procedure, engagement, content/strategies, skills and concepts(strategies), differentiation, planned support, research/theory, academic language/language function, feedback, informal/formal assessment and commentary
How can we embed the edTPA into our programs?

12. How can we embed the edTPA into our programs?
Utilize lesson planning as a formative assessment:
Model completing the lesson plan template with candidates
Work up to completing the entire template for a lesson
Provide detailed feedback to candidates
Scale back the level of detail required in lesson plans as candidates demonstrate proficiency in an area
Select anonymous samples for peer revision
Organize candidate roundtables for peer-to-peer critiques
Evaluate a lesson plan from a peer for ideas to use when planning
Ask for advice from peers on an area of lesson planning that has not yet been mastered by the candidate
How can we embed the edTPA into our programs?

13. www.aacte.org edTPA Resource Library Formative Lesson Plan Model

14. Modify your own Health and PE lesson template to include terms from the edTPA

15. How can the edTPA inform programs?
Use Pearson scoring to identify weaknesses based on the edTPA rubric – Where are you finding students underperforming?
Train faculty in local evaluation to gather qualitative data on specific areas to inform curriculum
How can the edTPA inform programs?

16. SCALE, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity, https://scale.stanford.edu/
AACTE, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education,
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