My Thoughts on... EWU's TPA guidelines and edTPA Making Good Choices

After reading the TPA guidelines and the edTPA Making good choices, I found myself writing notes about some of the points I found useful in both documents that I need to include when it comes to taking my edTPA. Being a teacher candidate at Eastern who will be taking her edTPA in a couple of months, this information seemed very useful and like something I would want to remember when for the future. They both include very important points about how to make an edTPA in the best possible way. They both serve as great guidelines for what we as candidates should think about when creating our own edTPA's. It gives us an example of parts of the handbook that we need to include and focus on when creating our edTPA's, and it explains how to understand these sections as well. I found a specific area in the "edTPA making good choices" of understanding the handbook rubrics. This section was particularly interesting because it explains in detail how to even understand what the rubrics are and what they are asking. I found this text very helpful because of how it describes the sections in depth. I personally made notes on this section because of how helpful it was in describing the handbook rubrics to me. The edTPA guideline plan is a good template when needing to know the formatting for an edTPA, but the only problem with this template is the lack in explanation. The making good choices text is the continuation of this formatting but does not describe it completely. There are other documents that do explain the edTPA in its entirety, but for the most part, the making good choices text was more useful for me. This could also be because I have worked with the formatting already in general, but for someone blindly going into lesson planning, this guideline could help.