AEPA ELA (NT301) case studies
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The AEPA English Language Arts (NT301) is one of the subject-matter assessments in Arizona's Educator Proficiency Assessments program, used by candidates seeking an English Language Arts teaching credential in Arizona. It is intended for prospective middle and secondary ELA teachers who have completed, or are completing, an approved preparation program, and it is typically taken near the end of that program or during the job search. The AEPA ELA (NT301) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,617 words.
1The Lexile Plateau in a Seventh-Grade Informational Unit
Okafor's seventh-grade class of 28 students is midway through a six-week informational-text unit. On the district benchmark, 11 students scored at or below the 25th percentile on informational reading, though most of them read narrative text near grade level.
735 words, about 4 min2Vocabulary Instruction Before a Dense Science Chapter
Delgado is about to teach a chapter on cellular respiration to a heterogeneous ninth-grade biology class of 31. The chapter contains roughly 40 technical terms, about a dozen of which are essential to understanding the process (e.g., glucose, ATP, mitochondria, aerobic).
732 words, about 4 min3Revising a Persuasive Essay Unit Under a Tight Calendar
Brennan's tenth-grade class is drafting persuasive essays. On the first draft, 19 of 27 students wrote a clear claim, but only 6 cited evidence from more than one source, and 14 used evidence that supported a different claim than the one they stated.
722 words, about 4 min4Discussion That Stalls in a Socratic Seminar
Iyer runs a Socratic seminar with his eleventh-grade class of 26 on a short argumentative text about school start times. In the first seminar, four students dominated roughly 70% of the talk, 12 students spoke once or not at all, and several exchanges consisted of students restating their original positions louder.
689 words, about 3 min5A Tier 2 Group That Isn't Closing the Gap
Castellano, a reading specialist, runs a Tier 2 intervention group of five second graders, 30 minutes four days a week. All five scored below benchmark on a universal screener in fall.
739 words, about 4 min