Each student teacher will construct their edTPA based on a learning segment of 3-5 lessons (or 3-5 hours of connected instruction). During the teaching of that learning segment, the student teacher will video record lessons to submit as evidence of student learning. The requirements for different content areas are listed in the grid below:
| Task 1: Planning (Central Focus) | Task 2: Instruction (Content of the edTPA Video) | Length of Video Clip(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Business Education | ||
| The central focus should support students in demonstrating their ability to use business-related concepts, technical skills, and problem-solving strategies to complete a project or product. | The video clips you select for submission should provide a sample of how you interact with students to develop their ability to use business-related conceptual understanding, technical skills, and problem-solving strategies as they create projects or products. | Two video clips that are no more than 10 minutes each, but not less than 3 minutes combined. |
| Elementary Education | ||
| The central focus should include an essential literacy strategy for comprehending text (e.g., summarizing a story) OR composing text (e.g., using evidence to support an argument) AND the related skills needed to develop and apply the strategy (e.g., decoding, recalling, sequencing, writing conventions, writing paragraphs) in meaningful contexts. | The video clips you select for submission should provide a sample of how you interact with students to develop an essential literacy strategy and related skills. | Two video clips that are no more than 20 minutes total, but not less than 3 minutes combined. |
| Performing Arts | ||
| Create, perform, or respond to music/dance/theater, by applying artistic skills, knowledge and contextual understandings | Lessons where you are engaging your students in 1) developing new artistic skills, knowledge, and context about music/dance/theater works and 2) applying that new knowledge/skill in creating, performing or responding to a musical, dance or theatrical work | Two clips that do not exceed 10 minutes each |
| English/Language Arts (CAL) | ||
| Develop the ability to comprehend, construct meaning from, and interpret complex text, to create a written product interpreting or responding to text | Lessons where you are engaging your students in preparing to read a complex text or in a discussion to construct meaning from and interpret the text | Two video clips that do not exceed 10 minutes each in total running time |
| Math | ||
| Build conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and mathematical reasoning/problem solving skills | Lessons where you are interacting with students to develop their conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and mathematical reasoning and/or problem-solving skills | One or two video clips that do not exceed 15 minutes in total |
| Science | ||
| Use scientific and application of scientific practices through inquiry to develop evidence-based explanations for a real-world phenomenon | Lessons where you are engaging your students in a scientific inquiry where they are analyzing and interpreting data and constructing evidence-based arguments as they discuss conclusions from the data | Two video clips that do not exceed 10 minutes each |
| Social Studies | ||
| Use facts, concepts, and interpretations to build arguments about historical events, topic/themes, or social studies phenomenon | Lessons where you interacting with students to develop their skills and strategies by critically evaluating accounts or interpretations of historical events or social studies phenomenon | Two video clips that do not exceed 10 minutes each |
| World Language | ||
| Develop and demonstrate communicative proficiency (both productive and receptive) in the target language and familiarity with cultures that use that language | Lessons where you are interacting with students to develop their communicative proficiency in the target language in meaningful cultural contexts | Two video clips that meet requirements; total running time of each clip should not exceed 10 minutes |
| Visual Arts | ||
| Support students in developing their abilities to create and respond to visual art concepts incorporating form and structure, production, art context, and personal perspective | Lessons where you are interacting with students to develop their abilities to create and respond to visual art concepts incorporating form and structure, production, art context, and personal perspective | One or two video clips (totaling no more than 20 minutes in length) |