Two quick announcements:
In seminar today, we will be reading this article on Proactive Classroom Management
We will collaborate to create an overview of Proactive Classroom Management on this slideshow
Please be sure to register for Teachology in the next couple of days. The event will take place in Merit Library on Saturday, October 1st from 9:00-1:00. Breakfast from Panera will be provided. It is expected that everyone is present for this event.
You can find an agenda of the day’s events on the Teachology website.
Happy Friday! I apologize that this is in delay from our seminar on Wednesday, but two people asked a similar question and I wanted to address that here:
You do not have to be in an ELA classroom or complete your edTPA during ELA. Literacy, as you know, can be taught in history, science, etc. It can also be taught in math, but this would make your edTPA more difficult. Here is what has to be in your “literacy” edTPA lessons:
Please let me know if you have questions! Have a great weekend!
Congrats to all of you for making it through your first Monday as a student teacher!
Those whom Allie peaked in on this morning were looking above and beyond any expectations discussed!
Speaking of expectations….
Expectation contracts are now in your hands. Please remember to print, sign, have your CT sign and bring to seminar on Wednesday!
If you have not already done so, please print the edTPA Commentary Task Templates found here or on the Canvas Site:
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elem-lit-task-1b_planning_commentary-1
elem-lit_task-2_instruction_commentary-1
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You may have already printed these, so check your binder first! These are the templates you will eventually fill out IN the edTPA site. We will use these to plan your strategy. Remember that we will have the testing coordinator in seminar on Wednesday, so come with big picture questions!
Wow–lots of blog posts this week! I hope this is helpful, rather than a burden. I will try to keep this one short and sweet.
Registering for the edTPA
It states in the syllabus that you should register for the edTPA for next seminar. Technically, you do not have to register until you are getting closer to submitting as we
have access to all of the documents you need. If you want to wait and register later and take the time to save the money required, feel free to register later. Keep in mind that registration is $300, so start saving up.
Shared Permission Forms
I apologize for the lack in clarity about permission forms. Unfortunately, they just haven’t come up with a solid, clear understanding of what can and cannot be done. However, I heard back from our testing coordinator and it seems that if you and another student teacher (either from our cohort or another cohort) are taping the same students in the same classroom, then you can use the same permission form to stand for both of you. However, when/ if you send a letter home (such as the ones offered here on the blog), you will want to include both of your names on this form.
Please feel free to comment on this blog post with questions (they do have to be approved by me before they will show up on the blog).
Thank you for your wonderful conversations yesterday. In response to the discussion of methods of getting attention of whole class, here are a couple of websites that might be helpful:
50 fun call and response ideas
25 Attention Grabbing Tips (other than call and response)
You should now have access to the edTPA Canvas page. Before gaining access, you will need to accept the invitation. I resent invitations to those individuals who it looked like had not already accepted the invitation. If you do not receive an invite in the next 24 hours, please email Jessie. Once you accept the invite, you will access this site in Learn@UW.
The Canvas site is meant to guide you through the edTPA and to provide you with necessary materials. It is not a completely finished site; the testing coordinator is still working on this site. You should be able to access the first two “pages” and on the second page “edTPA Getting Started + Watch to understand” are the videos that we started to watch in seminar.
Please watch the following two videos before seminar next week:
Thank you for your attention today. We know there was a lot to cover and we went over some of the information quickly. Please come to the next week’s seminar with questions for Celeste about edTPA.
I am working to get access for you for the Canvas edTPA site. I will let you know as soon as I have made this magic occur. 
Here are some answers to your questions from the dot box from seminar on 9/7.
Can you add the assessment PPT to the blog? and Can you please email us the Assessment PowerPoint?
Very popular question–Yes, yes we can! Here you go: Assessment Powerpoint
How would licensing work if we get licensed in Wisconsin, work a few years, and then want to move to another state?
Once you have a license, it is not too difficult to transfer to a new state. You usually just have to fill out paperwork, pay some money, and then some states might have additional requirements. This is always the case as each state makes up their own guidelines for teacher licensing.
After we graduate, will we get back all of our hard copies of the things we have turned in? Kind of like our portfolio?
Your lesson plans, post observation reports from your supervisor, and supervisor and CT post semester reflections are all located in a file in the TEB building. You can access and get copies of this information at any time. At the end of this semester you will get a letter of recommendation from your supervisor and your CT. This is also a great thing to keep in your portfolio.
If the passing score is the same for another state, do you have to do two separate entries or can it transfer over?
Nope. The scores are pretty universal. Think of it like the Praxis: you take the test and that score can be used wherever. The only catch is that different states have different cut off scores.
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