Buyer’s remorse. NEA and edTPA
In our continuing discussion of the expansion of edTPA as a licensure process for teachers entering the profession, I reprinted the original supporting position of the National Education Association.
The American Federation of Teachers position of opposition was also posted on this site.
I then was blasted by a series of twittering academics for every imaginable sin. Since I don’t have a PhD after my name and thousands read this blog, my views on this topic are suspect.
For some in the academic world it is always better to publish in journals read by dozens than on blogs read by thousands.
That is why I had to laugh when I read this summer’s review of edTPA published by the very same NEA in its research journal, Thought and Action.
Its circulation is limited, so it should have some credibility.
It’s authors are Deborah Greenblatt, a Ph.D. candidate in urban education at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York with a concentration in educational policy and leadership and Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Education at New York Institute of Technology.
Neither are bloggers to my knowledge.
As states across the country continue their implementation of the edTPA, a complex and high-stakes certification requirement for teacher certification, there are important lessons for educators and education advocates to learn from New York State’s implementation. As Linda Darling-Hammond, developer and promoter of the edTPA, cautioned at the 2014 American Educational Research Association
