College of
Education Winter Forum
Thursday,
February 18th
5:30 - 8:30
P.M.
Student
Center 314 AB
TAKING A
CRITICAL LOOK AT THE edTPA: High Stakes Test for New Teachers
All
prospective teacher candidates for licensure in Illinois are now required to
pass the edTPA (Education Teacher Performance Assessment). Our winter forum
will take a critical look at this process from the perspectives of student
teachers, university clinical supervisors, academic researchers, education
professors and parents.
The issues
the panelists will address include:
•
The
concerns of prospective teachers, their cooperating teachers, university
clinical supervisors, and parents who have had experience with the edTPA
•
Critiques
of the edTPA as an effective way to evaluate beginning teachers
•
The
role of the Pearson corporation, the developer and scorer for edTPA, and
Pearson's broader involvement in the trend toward high stakes testing in K-12
•
How
pre-service teachers can best negotiate the edTPA process
•
Strategies
& advocacy to change the edTPA
Dr. Marie
Donovan, Associate Professor, DePaul University’s College of Education, will
serve as moderator.
Panelists
include:
•
Dr.
Alison Dover, Assistant Professor of Secondary Education, College of Education,
Northeastern Illinois University
•
Julie
Peters, Associate Director of the Teaching of History Program, UIC; founding
member of the Coalition for edTPA Rule Change
•
Cheryl
Witucke, Coordinator of Clinical Supervision, Division of Education, Trinity
International University
•
Trisha
Wickland, MA, Concordia University; 1st, 2nd grade teacher. St. Paul Lutheran
School in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago
•
Cassandra
Creswell, organizer with More Than a Score, board member of Raise Your Hand
Illinois
3 CPDUs are
available.
For more
information and to R.S.V.P., please contact Dr. Diane Horwitz at dhorwit1@depaul.edu
