Dear SEYS Student,
I am writing to invite you to apply for the opportunity to participate in a collaborative project
designed to help Student Teaching Candidates prepare for the edTPA as well as
Danielson-based evaluations.
Please read the project description on the next page, and if you are interested in
participating, please apply by June 24th, 2014. If you are selected for the project,
you will receive an email notification and be asked to confirm your participation to
hold your spot.
In a SINGLE document, please include the following information and email it to Beata
Breg (beata.breg@qc.cuny.edu) as an attachment:
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Full Name
Phone number
QC email
Email address that you check regularly
Program (English, Math, Social Studies, Science, etc.)
SEYS GPA
Content Area GPA
ICE Placement (if not yet placed, the schools you requested)
A statement of interest, 250 words maximum. Please be sure to explain your
interest in the collaboration, including what you feel you would contribute and
what you think you would gain from participating in this project. Feel free to use
examples from any previous experiences you have had
10) Any questions or concerns you might have about the project, or anything that
may prevent you from meeting all of the stated requirements.
Best regards,
Dr.
Limarys Caraballo
Department of Secondary Education and Youth Services
edTPA-Danielson Collaborative Project – Fall 2014
In this series of workshops, initial certificate candidates in student teaching will be
matched with graduate students in educational leadership, (who will be enrolled in the
second semester of their supervision practicums).
One Ed Leadership Mentor from the same content-area background will work with 6
Student Teaching Candidates all semester. The Ed Leadership Mentor will give his/her
candidates peer feedback on their teaching and edTPA materials. The Student Teacher
Candidates will have the opportunity to experience what it is like to be evaluated
according to the Danielson framework, which is currently the mandated evaluation
method in New York City schools.
The Student Teachers will continue to be observed by their regular supervisors and
nothing in their current programs would really change. Student Teachers will be asked
to videotape and share the lessons, in which they are being observed, with their Ed
Leadership Mentor. The Ed Leadership Mentor will then evaluate the videotaped
observations based on the Danielson framework.
This collaboration will allow us to examine the potential in a relationship between QC’s
Educational Leadership Candidates (soon-to-be administrators in our area schools) and
QC’s Teacher Candidates (who will eventually work with these future administrators in
area schools).
At the beginning of the fall 2014 semester, all Student Teacher Candidates will be given
consent forms that outline all terms and expectations of the project.
Although we do not yet have all of the details for fall 2014, the main idea is that the chosen
Student Teacher Candidates will commit to the following:
• attend Wednesday evening workshops, 7:15-9 pm, to work on edTPA-related
tasks and discuss issues related to teaching, evaluation, and supervision (this is
not a separate course, this is a workshop session; some sessions will take place
online)
• complete assigned journal entries and surveys via Chalk and Wire
• agree to video tape lessons during ICE, and share them with their Ed Leadership
Mentors
• submit the edTPA portfolio toward the end of the project term (date to TBD)
• remain in touch with the project for follow-up during their first 1-3 years in-service
(one interview or focus group and a survey)