Edtpa vocabulary - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Academic Language - Oral, written, and nonverbal language used for academic purposes. For physical education, it is the language students must use when developing movement competencies and learning knowledge in movement-based environments. Language Demands - Specific ways that academic language (vocabulary, functions, discourse, syntax) is used by students to participate in learning tasks through reading, writing, listening, and/or speaking to demonstrate their disciplinary understanding. ...

Learning Segment - A set of 3-5 lessons that build one upon another toward a central focus, with a clearly defined beginning and end. Each discipline has its own requirements for the learning segment (see Handbook) Formal Assessment - "[R]efer[s] to all those activities undertaken by teachers and by their students . . . that provide information to be used as feedback to modify teaching and learning activities. Assessments provide evidence of students' prior knowledge, thinking, or learnin...