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SMT and edTPA
Use High-Resolution Evidence to Write Stronger Narratives
SeeMeTeach provides guides for teacher candidates to plan, teach, analyze, and reflect using real classroom evidence. Our edTPA supporting documents focus on Rubrics 6-10 and show how to use SMT data to strengthen your written reflections and improve your scores.
What is edTPA?
edTPA is a high-stakes assessment used as a summative evaluation for future teachers. Consisting of three major sections, each with five subsections, the edTPA requires the candidate to prepare materials for an outside assessor who uses fifteen rubrics to evaluate the submission. In teacher education in over 30 states, the candidate must meet or exceed the passing score to continue into the teaching profession.
SMT and edTPA - Supporting Documents for Your Content Area
The SMT and edTPA Documents Provide:
Guidance for planning and teaching a lesson with robust supporting evidence and indicators of teaching effectiveness.
Guidance on specific supporting data and indicators for using SMT to analyze the lesson; incorporate evidence when writing the narrative reflection.
The SMT and edTPA Documents Provide:
The essence of each rubric.
Concrete examples of evidence and indicators that help meet the expectations of each 6-10 rubric.
The guiding question for each rubric.
Why Use SMT and the Guiding Documents When Preparing an edTPA Submission?
As a benefit of SMST registration, users can access the SMT and edTPA supporting guides.
SMT is a powerful mechanism for observing video and collecting comments, data, evidence, and indicators that will significantly enrich your written reflections, especially for Rubrics 6-10. This added value is especially true for Rubric 10, where the lowest scores often occur.
Knowing what evidence and indicators are needed when analyzing a lesson helps guide you when planning and delivering lessons that contain the critical indicators of teaching effectiveness that edTPA assessors look for.
The Power of Using SeeMeTeach for edTPA and Evidence-Based Narratives
SMT is a teacher observation tool that contains:
Qualitative mode for comments, analysis, and feedback.
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Quantitative mode for data collection, analysis, and feedback.
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Data displayed using tables, graphs, charts, and heat maps.
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Data and comments linked to video segments.
Seating chart heat maps showing student engagement and misbehaviors.
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Teacher-student interaction data, patterns, and specific wait times.
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Feedback forms, standard or your own.
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A collaboration of up to four team members for observation and feedback.
