The Role of Performance Assessment in Developing Teaching as a Profession
This article underscores how performance assessments in teaching like the edTPA are critical to developing teachers’ expertise, improving the quality of teacher preparation, and uplifting teaching as a profession.
edTPA Guidance for Teachers Who Support Teacher Candidates
An overview of what Cooperating Teachers can expect when they work in the edTPA and why it is valuable to them, their Teacher Candidate, and their school.
This five-minute video features a former high school teacher and edTPA coordinator, who discusses the role of the cooperating teacher and lays out the “nuts and bolts” of the edTPA.
This FAQ drafted for districts lays out the components of the edTPA and what to expect from an edTPA candidate, and it walks through the video recording and confidentiality process.
This resource from Illinois State University outlines the components of the edTPA, how to navigate confidentiality, and methods of supporting teacher candidates.
edTPA Guide from the Illinois State Board of Education
This comprehensive guide has a section drafted specifically for each stakeholder—including districts—and offers Educator Preparation Programs advice on how to communicate to districts about the edTPA.