07+KPTP+-+Frequently+Asked+Questions

===We'll use this page as a clearinghouse for FAQs regarding the KPTP. Please start by referring to the KPTP Website.===


 * Question 1: May I delete KPTP instructions in the template?**

Answer 1: Yes you may, but don't alter the document in other ways.

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 * 1)  Choose your learning objectives, subgroups, and focus students carefully—they will make or break your KPTP.
 * 2) Your learning objectives should be //measurable//.
 * 3) **Example **: Students will **identify** examples of Aristotle’s three appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) in an argument and **evaluate** the effectiveness of these appeals.
 * 1) **Non-Example **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">: Students will read an argument and participate in a discussion about Aristotle’s three appeals.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">You should select your subgroups and focus students that will allow you to demonstrate your ability to //modify instruction based on specific student needs//.
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Don’t just choose the easy subgroups (e.g., gender; white/non-white students) unless you plan to adjust your instruction to meet the needs of members of each subgroup.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Tables 1.2.2 and 1.3.1 indicate that you must //articulate specific implications for instruction// for the whole class, subgroups, and focus students.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">A minimum number of students is not indicated for subgroups.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Candidates struggle most with **Task #4 Reflection and Professionalism**, often because they don’t devote enough time to responding fully and accurately to the prompts. Please make the time and devote the energy necessary to this task.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;">**<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Video-recording of teaching: **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> The video-recording is for you only. You will not submit it with your KPTP, but scorers will be able to tell (from your writing) if you recorded yourself and then viewed the recording.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;">**<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">KPTP data charts **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> (Tables 3.3.2a and 3.3.2b)

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 * <span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Input student number/letter (Student A, B, C) and scores on pre-assessment and summative assessment

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 * 1)  **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Collaboration: **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> Extensive collaboration is not permitted (e.g., taking someone else’s ideas for instructional design; asking someone to read/revise your KPTP for content). (Content Guidelines, p. 1)
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;">**<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Citations: **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> APA Style would be best. In-text and references (appendix)
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;">**<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Communication Log **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> (Content Guidelines, p. 47)
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Contacts must be relevant to the instructional unit; must have impacted instruction in some way
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Students
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Parents
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Community Members
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Other professionals
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">If an administrator observes your teaching and gives feedback, I suppose this could work if you can describe how it impacted your instruction.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;">**<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Performance of students: **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> If your focus students (or subgroups or whole class) performs poorly, do not freak out. This gives you more to talk about in Task 4. Be able to discuss some reasons for the poor performance and specific things that YOU can do differently next time to support them and/or what you’re doing now to help remediate/re-teach concepts differently for deeper understanding.
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.66px;">**<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Student work examples: **<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> You can probably provide 1-2 anonymous examples in an appendix IF it supports something you’re saying in your narrative. Don’t provide examples just to provide examples; be sure they are in support of something you articulate in your KPTP.