Presentation
edTPA Perspectives: Connecticut's Novice Teachers Reflect
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting
(2021)
Abstract
The edTPA is a pre-service performance assessment that is designed to evaluate whether new teachers are fully prepared for the tasks of teaching: planning, instruction and assessment (SCALE, 2020). Currently, edTPA is being used as a performance assessment to evaluate teacher candidates' practice and pedagogy in more than 951 educator preparation programs in 41 states and the District of Columbia (edTPA.aacte, 2020).Connecticut’s implementation of this high-stakes tool as a gateway to initial teacher licensure began in the fall of 2019 and has met with considerable resistance from various stakeholders. The rapid nature of the implementation nationwide has created skepticism, pushback, and a call for further research into the efficacy and validity of the edTPA. Researchers took up the call; yet the voices of current teachers who experienced the edTPA as a requirement for licensure are under-represented. Educators, EPPs, and policy-makers would benefit greatly by hearing the perspectives of this population of novice teachers in Connecticut as they relate to the merits of the edTPA portfolio process as a means of building teacher efficacy, understanding what barriers the edTPA may have created, and in exploring the extent to which the edTPA process influences current classroom teaching practices.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2021
Location
New Orleans, LA
Citation Information
Wallace, K. (2022, March). edTPA perspectives: Connecticut's novice teachers reflect [Conference paper]. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.