On Friday, the State Board for Educator Certification will vote on whether to adopt the Educative Teacher Performance Assessmen
with the edTPA exam as education officials called it a barrier of entry to the profession. Educator programs in the state can still require students to take the edTPA, but it is not required to be certified.And in Illinois, lawmakers have made efforts to get rid of the assessment as well for all the same reasons. The edTPA in the state has been paused due to the pandemic.that the exam reduced the number of students graduating as teachers and had adverse effects on student learning.
He said the same can happen in Texas. If, down the line, edTPA has served its goal and there is another, better way to prepare teachers, the state can look at those options. “Having teachers demonstrate that they have mastered what they’re supposed to be is not a bad thing,” he said “[Our program] is meant to provide formative support and help educators grow in their practice, rather than to be used kind of as a high-stakes decision at the very end of their program,” Anderson said.Anderson also takes issue with the video that students are supposed to record. She says it provides only a snapshot of someone’s teaching skills in a classroom, but it could be the difference between becoming a teacher or not.
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