Winter Term - Week 9

Finished up videoing for EdTPA on Monday which feels great! My cooperating teacher even noticed that I seemed more comfortable and smooth compared to the first couple days of filming.

(Advice for next year’s cohort: start filming yourself teaching for about a week BEFORE you teach your EdTPA lessons! Not with the purpose of using that material for EdTPA, but allowing yourself to become used to the camera!)

My cooperating teacher shared a few compliments from a sub that sat in on my classes while my cooperating teacher was in a meeting. This has been several weeks now since she sat in on my classes and she still has positive comments about my lesson! That was very much uplifting, motivating and just nice to hear. One of my downfalls is that I focus almost too much on what I could do better or differently and not enough on what I did well. 

The week rounded out with two AED 556 seminars and A LOT of proficiency judging! While I am thankful we as a cohort had the opportunity to learn and help judge proficiency applications, I do not want to see another application for at least a week! Ha! Even though EdTPA is overwhelming for me, I am glad we spent the majority of Friday’s seminar working on it. I felt that I walked away with my questions answered and a new strategy for getting it done!

EdTPA Strategy: 

- Complete ONE EdTPA task/piece each week until the due date of April  7th
            This will hopefully help minimize my EdTPA stress!

- Utilize page 43 as my checklist and outline of what I need to complete for EdTPA

This next week’s goal is to go through each of my videos again with the associated rubrics and choose potential video clips!