edTPA Quiz Comprehensive
Questions and Solutions
Graded A+
Academic Language - Answer: Oral and written language used for academic purpose
Active nature of young children's learning - Answer: practices for young children that promote
learning through meaningful, relevant, and
authentic experiences with materials and with people—by doing (engaging with open-ended,
multi-use, rich materials, play, physical action, hands-on experiments), and by having
relationships (engaging in conversations, generating, and asking questions), following their
own interests and curiosity, being able to make mistakes and learn from their mistakes,
learning to control impulses and regulate their emotions, and through the model of adults
Aligned - Answer: Consistently addressing the same/similar learning outcomes for children
Artifacts - Answer: Authentic work completed by you and your children
Assessment (formal and informal) - Answer: all those activities undertaken by teachers and by
their students . . . that provide information to be used as feedback to modify teaching and
learning activities
Assets personal - Answer: Refers to specific background information that children bring to the
learning environment
Questions and Solutions
Graded A+
Academic Language - Answer: Oral and written language used for academic purpose
Active nature of young children's learning - Answer: practices for young children that promote
learning through meaningful, relevant, and
authentic experiences with materials and with people—by doing (engaging with open-ended,
multi-use, rich materials, play, physical action, hands-on experiments), and by having
relationships (engaging in conversations, generating, and asking questions), following their
own interests and curiosity, being able to make mistakes and learn from their mistakes,
learning to control impulses and regulate their emotions, and through the model of adults
Aligned - Answer: Consistently addressing the same/similar learning outcomes for children
Artifacts - Answer: Authentic work completed by you and your children
Assessment (formal and informal) - Answer: all those activities undertaken by teachers and by
their students . . . that provide information to be used as feedback to modify teaching and
learning activities
Assets personal - Answer: Refers to specific background information that children bring to the
learning environment
