EdTPA video
Video Permission
1) There are three forms, to cover different "levels" of recording. The candidate should use the one that most closely matches what the school or district is allowing. As always, they should run it by an administrator, not only to get permission to use it but also in case the school already has a form it prefers and perhaps that the students have already submitted.
2) These are "fillable pdfs," so the people filling them our can type their information in. If they can put an electronic signature on it, great, but we will accept a typed name. Of course, everyone has to remember to hit "save."
3) I would prefer not to post these on our SED website, because they are, we hope, temporary. So I am counting on SIs to make them available to candidates, ideally posting on your Canvas page, perhaps in the edTPA or FRED module.
Screen Recording
Video Content
Science -Provide 2 video clips (each no more than 10 minutes in length) that demonstrate how you interact with students in a positive learning environment to develop their understanding of how to use evidence and/or data and science concepts to construct and evaluate explanations of or predictions about a real-world phenomenon. (For FRED (554), you need one 10 minute video and an optional one 5 minute video illustrating students academic language usage)
First video - The first clip should illustrate how you actively engaged students in organizing and analyzing evidence and/or data from a scientific inquiry. Students should be examining the evidence and/or data to look for patterns, identify outliers, and/or explore contradictory findings.
Second video - The second clip should illustrate how you facilitated your students' use of scientific evidence and/or data AND concepts to construct and evaluate evidence-based explanations of a phenomenon or predictions of reasonable outcomes based on patterns in evidence and/or data.
Health -You should choose lessons that show you interacting with students as they show active engagement in using functional health knowledge, demonstrating health-related skills, and/or developing personal beliefs and analyzing group norms to help them adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. (For FRED (554), you need one 10 minute video and one 5 minute video illustrating students academic language usage)
Video Checklist
Video Resolution and File Size
To insure that your video files are not too large to upload to GoReact or the EdTPA submission site, record them at lower resolution. For the iPhone, go to Settings / Camera / Record Video, and select the lowest resolution. The lowest resolution on an iPhone 12 is 720p at 30 frames per second. The lowest for an iPhone 11 is 360p at 30 frames per second. Look at the screen capture below and note how much space you save by recording at lower resolutions.
Audio
Audio - It is very important that evaluators be able to hear everything that the student teacher says. The inverse square law determines how loud a sound will be recorded. The intensity of a sound decreases as the inverse square of the distance from the camera (see figures). If the video recording device is in the back of the classroom, the microphone will magnify local sounds (student coughs, squeaking desks, etc.) and will minimize the sound of the teacher. In order to hear the teacher clearly, we suggest using a bluetooth microphone.
If you use a bluetooth microphone, it may be difficult to hear student comments. To make sure that student comments can be heard on the recording, the student teacher should either point the lavalier bluetooth microphone towards the speaker, and/or repeat and summarize what the student has said.
Uploading videos
Create a GoReact account.
Use the GoReact cell phone app to upload your video to the appropriate folder.
Compress your video if necessary, but make sure you are able to read any diagrams or text.
Make sure you have a strong WiFi Signal before uploading videos.
Using the GoReact App, you can upload your videos directly to the GoReact cloud so you don't run out of memory on your phone
How to make a good EdTPA video
How to make a good EdTPA video [29:37]
