29.045 - edTPA's Threats to Equity in Teacher Education: Policy Analysis at Statewide, Program, and Individual Levels

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The edTPA is a rapidly evolving and complex force in teacher preparation that threatens equity at all levels of teacher education. This symposium is designed to confront and resist these threats by presenting four papers focusing on the influence of the edTPA at the statewide, program, and candidate level. Our objective is to illuminate and analyze the challenges to equity presented by edTPA. We provide a broad and thorough analysis of the threat to equity presented by the edTPA nationally. Through the dissemination of research findings, and the sharing of the experiences of teacher educators openly resisting the implementation of the edTPA, we hope to deepen the conversation among teacher educators regarding the threats to equity presented by the edTPA.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 10: Teaching and Teacher Education Policy and Research

Chair

• Limarys Caraballo, Queens College - CUNY

Papers

• The Contradictions and Consequences of the edTPA - Deborah Greenblatt, Manhattan College

• Outsourcing Community: The Impact of the edTPA on a Professional Development School Model - Adam Wade Jordan, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Low edTPA Submission Rates Threaten Equity, Expose Flaws in Accreditation Standards Focused on Pass Rates - David M. Gerwin, Queens College - CUNY

• I Fought the Law and the Law Won: Documenting a Failed Attempt to Create an Alternative to the edTPA - Todd S. Hawley, Kent State University; Lisa A. Borgerding, Kent State University; William Kist, Kent State University

Discussant

• Leslee Grey, Queens College - CUNY