Making Good Choices TPA Edition

The key to me completing the edTPA successfully will be my ability to plan out and manage my time well. Procrastination has always been my own worst enemy and realizing that quality time is needed to complete the edTPA well and successfully. Reading the handbook first and foremost will help in my journey to not only setting a schedule to plan out the steps I need to take to complete it on time but also to really comprehend the weight that the TPA holds. Understanding the need to allow time for revisions and editing will be extremely important in my process. Another thing that will help with my process is understanding how I will be graded and being able to read the rubrics will ease some of the stress by understanding what the graders are looking for.

Another thing I need to focus on before beginning my edTPA is understanding how to go about researching proper theories to include in my explaining and connecting to the lesson plans I will be providing in context to the TPA’s themselves. Understanding they need to not only mention but support and confirm the reason for what I am teaching is incredibly important.

Recording and understanding the steps have always been something that I wasn’t worried about due to my mentor teacher being a trained grader of the TPA she is also incredibly patient and helpful in explaining difficult to comprehend information to me. The key for me through all of this however will continue to be the organization aspect. Taking things one step at a time, in a timely manner will keep me on tract to successfully completing the edTPA. Keeping things in order and  not frantically spreading things out, jumping from step to step will allow me to keep a clear head and finish my edTPA in a organized and timely fashion.