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TPA Task 2 Information

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Task 2: Connecting Instructional Planning to Student Characteristics for Academic Learning

Overview

  1. You will demonstrate your ability to learn important details about a classroom of students, an English learner, and a student who presents a different instructional challenge. You will plan instruction that is shaped by those student characteristics.
  2. You will demonstrate your ability to connect learning about students to instructional planning.
  3. You will submit your completed response and any artifacts.

Basic Information
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Directions
Checklist
Scoring Rubric

Worksheets
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Task 2

Examples
Your completed papers will be scored on a scale from 1 to 4, with 4 being the highest and 1 being the lowest. The following are completed and scored examples of papers submitted to fulfill the requirements of TPA Task 2.

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