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EdTPA, a teacher-performance assessment designed to determine K-12 teacher candidates’ readiness for the classroom, has become central in teacher-preparation programs in several states and promises to be implemented in more states in the coming months. A multidimensional portfolio compilation, the edTPA requires candidates to submit teaching artifacts (e.g., lesson plans, samples of students’ work) along with narrative writing tasks that detail a teacher’s instructional approach and teaching reflections. This article highlights 3 ESL teachers’ experiences with and perspectives about the New York State requirement of edTPA for English as an Additional Language (EAL) certification over 2 semesters of a student-teacher practicum. These teachers’ experiences provide insights into the nature of certification assessment and the perceived benefits and challenges of completing the edTPA portfolio. This article also offers suggestions for the growing number of educational programs that will experience the impact of edTPA during the coming decade.  \nEdTPA: A Consequential Certification Requirement  \nThe new implementation of edTPA in teacher-education pro  \ngrams throughout the US is having a significant effect on  \nteacher candidates pursuing K-12 certification. Formerly called the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA), edTPA is a multiple-measure performance assessment designed to answer “the essential question of whether new teachers are ready for the job”(Pearson Assessment, 2014; AACTE, 2014) . EdTPA was developed by educa  \nThe CATESOL Journal 27.2 • 2015 • 211  \ntors, professionals, and faculty throughout the field of education as an assessment measure to further learning for teacher candidates, and to predict teaching effectiveness and its relationship to student learning in the classroom (NYSTCE, 2014; Pearson Assessment, 2014; SCALE, 2014) .  \nEdTPA comprises three overarching components related to classroom teaching: planning, instruction, and assessment (SCALE, 2014). To showcase these aspects of their teaching, teacher candidates submit multiple components in their edTPA portfolio for evaluation, including two 5-10–minute video clips of classroom instruction, lesson plans for the instruction presented in video clips, classroom artifacts, student work samples with feedback, and assessments. All of these components are accompanied by extensive prompted narrative commentary in which teachers explain and defend different aspects of their pedagogical practice. Each edTPA portfolio is discipline specific. For example, Task 3a pertains to the planning component of English as an Additional Language (EAL) and poses the following prompt for teacher candidates to answer:  \nJustify how your understanding of your students’ prior academic learning and personal/cultural/community assets guided your choice or adaptation of language tasks and materials when planning to provide English language development within contentbased instruction. Be explicit about the connections between the learning tasks and students’ prior academic learning, assets, and research/theory (SCALE, 2015a) .  \nCompleting edTPA is, by all accounts, an extensive task. Guidelines provided to candidates suggest that original commentaries should not exceed 25 single-spaced pages (SCALE, 2013a), and combined with the required assessments, lesson plans, and student artifacts, submitted portfolios can consist of 50 pages or more.  \nAt the time of writing, preparation materials included a support guide that outlined the required tasks all candidates needed to complete (SCALE, 2013b), as well as the EAL Assessment Handbook, a 48-page document detailing the specific requirements for students taking the EAL test (SCALE, 2013a).1 Fifteen rubrics used for portfolio evaluation were provided for cand","cbCaispOZMaMzOc2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaispOZMaMzOc2","pdf",569523,"English","# EdTPA: A Consequential Certification Requirement\n## Core structure of the edTPA portfolio\n## Planning, instruction, assessment, and narrative commentary\n## Requirements, scoring, and New York EAL cutoff\n## Program adjustments for candidate completion","[{\"question\":\"What is EdTPA and why is it important for teacher candidates?\",\"answer\":\"EdTPA is a teacher-performance assessment designed to determine K-12 teacher candidates’ readiness for classroom practice. 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