edTPA Is Coming

• In Event: Moscone Center West Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Perspectives on Improving School Staffing Structures at Scale

Abstract

This study explored how pre-service teachers’ development is affected by recording and reviewing videos of their own teaching, as well as how video can function as a tool for evaluation and scaffolding and how this is playing out in the context of edTPA (Teacher Performance Assessment). More specific, The study looks at the impacts, both positive and negative, of a video portfolio assignment implemented in a teaching methods course, and of the uses and meanings, these videos have for pre-service teachers, their instructors, and the teacher preparation program. Also, the study brings the implications for how initial teacher preparation programs can implement the videotaping requirement of edTPA in ways that best support pre-service teachers’ growth.

Author

• Bing Xiao, Austin Peay State University