Faculty & Staff
Getting Started with edTPA
The College of Education and Human Development is championing the readiness of teacher education program leaders by offering a pilot of edTPA for CEHD programs during 2021-2022. The consequential year for the implementation of edTPA is 2023.
Instructions for Faculty and Staff
Step 1 of 5: Identify your edTPA Pilot Task Force leaders and coordinators for your department.
Step 2 of 5: Sign-up for an edTPA account. If you have not created an account to become a member of the edTPA Community, you can do so by visiting http://edtpa.aacte.org/, select Join edTPA, then select ‘Create a Profile.’
Log in to review:
- edTPA Orientation for Program Leaders and Faculty
- edTPA Orientation
- Implementation and Resource Brief
- edTPA Handbooks
Step 3 of 5: Go to the faculty/staff tab and download:
- CEHD edTPA Pilot Workbook,
- Effectively Implementing edTPA for Educator Preparation Programs, and
- Making Good Choices Resource documents.
Step 4 of 5: Watch edTPA’s 60-minute implementation video. Please select Part 1: Orientation to edTPA (Access Password: 5k$T.%%+).
Step 5 of 5: Engage as many online webinars and workshops as recommended by your Task Force Leaders and get involved. Please refer to the edTPA Pilot Calendar for CEHD.
Become an edTPA Scorer
edTPA Scorer edTPA is a subject-specific assessment that includes versions for 27 teaching fields. Scorers train and score in a specific content area based on their educator experience within the last 5 years. Scorers participate in training and scoring activities from home with a part-time, flexible schedule. Consider becoming an edTPA scorer.
Technology Support and Guidelines for Faculty and Students
How-to Videos for Portfolio Preparation and Submission for Students
Workshops & Webinars
Handbooks and Supplementals for Faculty and Students
Frequently Asked Questions
Why edTPA?
What is edTPA?
The Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) is a subject-specific portfolio-based assessment that will allow you to demonstrate your readiness for a full-time classroom teaching assignment.
edTPA provides a summative assessment of your teaching practice during your clinical or intensive training organized around 3 tasks:
- Planning: Building content understanding, supporting learning needs, using knowledge of students, and assessments to monitor student learning.
- Instruction: Learning environment, engagement in learning, deepening thinking, and subject-specific pedagogy.
- Assessment: Analysis of student learning, providing feedback, and supporting student use of feedback.
edTPA is a subject-specific assessment with versions in 27 different teaching fields covering Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle Childhood, and Secondary. edTPA includes a review of a teacher candidate’s authentic teaching materials into a portfolio as the culmination of a teaching and learning portfolio that documents a 3-to-5 day learning segments and demonstrates each candidate’s ability to effectively teach subject matter to all students.
- edTPA includes a review of a teacher candidate’s authentic teaching materials into a portfolio as the culmination of a teaching and learning portfolio that documents a 3-to-5 day learning segment and demonstrates each candidate’s ability to effectively teach subject matter to all students.
- edTPA doesn’t ask candidates to do anything that most aren’t already doing in their preparation programs, but it does ask for greater support for and demonstration of these skills that research and educators find are essential to student learning.
- All initial certification programs are required to participate by 2022-2023. Intensive field based experiences (e.g. for programs that offer certification in internships) will launch in 2020-21 for Texas A&M University.
What are the goals of edTPA?
edTPA is the first nationally accessible preservice teacher assessment and support program to:
- Improve student outcomes;
- Improve the information base guiding improvement of teacher preparation programs;
- Strengthen the information base for accreditation and evaluation of program effectiveness;
- Be used in combination with other measures as a requirement for licensure; and
- Guide professional development for teachers across the career continuum.
Who owns edTPA?
Is anyone partnered with edTPA?
What is SCALE's role?
What is Pearson's role?
Partnering with SCALE for operational support, Evaluation Systems, a group of Pearson, provides the technical infrastructure to collect candidate materials, hires educators to score the materials, and delivers score reports to teacher candidates and preparation programs. SCALE designed the architecture of edTPA and drafted and piloted many handbooks prior to partnering with Evaluation Systems.
Who scores the edTPA?
All edTPA portfolio submissions are scored by officially trained edTPA scorers. Over 2,500 teachers and teacher educators now serve as scorer trainers, supervisors, or scorers. Scorers must be P-12 teachers or EPP teacher educators with significant pedagogical content knowledge in the field in which they score (e.g., NBTPS teachers), as well as experience working as instructors or mentors for novice teachers.
The criteria for selecting and training scorers are rigorous and include:
- Expertise in the subject matter and developmental level of the teaching field (degree and professional experience).
- Teaching experience in the field (or experience teaching methods courses or supervising student teachers in that field).
- Experience mentoring or supervising beginning teachers or administering programs that prepare them.
- Verification that the qualifications above are recent (within the past 5 years)
All scoring training is designed by the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE). As the operational partner, Evaluation Systems group of Pearson manages edTPA scoring activities. All scorers complete over 20 hours of an extensive training curriculum that includes multiple checks to ensure scoring consistency. Additionally, all scorers complete an anti-bias module that highlights potential sources of bias that might influence scoring accuracy.
How can I confirm that a student submitted their portfolio for scoring?
Contact Information
Texas A&M Contacts
Bilingual Education
- Dr. Miranda Walichowski, Clinical Associate Professor – Bilingual Education
- Dr. Monica Neshyba, Clinical Assistant Professor – English as a Second Language (ESL)
Middle Grades ELAR/SS, Middle Grades (Math and Science), EC-6 Generalist
- Dr. Dawn Parker, Clinical Professor – Math Education
- Dr. Sara Raven, Assistant Professor – Science Education
- Dr. Julie Singleton, Clinical Associate Professor – Science Education
Special Education
- Dr. Melissa Fogarty, Clinical Assistant Professor – Special Education
- Dr. Marcia Montague, Visiting Assistant Professor – Special Education
Other Contacts
edTPA Contact
Pearson Contact
- Contact Pearson Customer Support for information about registration and the Pearson ePortfolio system.