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Lynda R. Williams taught in the Department of Elementary and Bilingual Education at California State University, Fullerton from 1994-2010. During that time she instructed a variety of courses in the Multiple Subject Credential Program. Being trained in all four of the CalTPA tasks has given her the opportunity to support many candidates in their work on the CalTPA. She has also served as an assessor for all four of the CalTPA tasks. She has published articles on making learning accessible to students with special needs, helping students with ADHD succeed in the classroom, learning disabilities, and speech and language disorders.Currently she is teaching courses in the School of Education at Utah Valley University.
Andrea M. Guillaume is a professor in the Department of Elementary and Bilingual Education at California State University, Fullerton. She has supported hundreds of candidates through their work on the CalTPA. She has authored and co-authored three other texts for Pearson, including K-12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for New Professionals (4th edition, 2012), 35 Strategies for Content Area Vocabulary Development (with Brenda H. Spencer, 2009), and Active teaching: 50 Strategies for Engaging K-12 Learners in the Classroom (with R. H. and H. K. Yopp, 2007). She has taught students at a variety of levels, and her expertise is in pedagogy and in mathematics and science education.
Jennifer M. Ponder, a former elementary school teacher, is currently an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton in the Department of Elementary and Bilingual Education where she teaches in the multiple subject credential and graduate program. She is also a lead assessor for all four CalTPA tasks, and is currently serving as the TPA coordinator for her department. Her teaching and research interests include education for democratic citizenship, experiential learning, and infusing the arts into the curriculum. She has published articles and book chapters related to civic education in the elementary classroom, social action curriculum in teacher education, and action-based science instruction. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from Indiana University.
Part 1: Skills for CalTPA Success
Chapter 1: Understanding the Rubrics
Chapter 2: Understanding CalTPA Vocabulary
Chapter 3: Choosing Appropriate Focus Students
Chapter 4: Preparing your CalTPA Responses: Important Tips and Reminders
Part 2: Making Adaptations
Chapter 5: Making Adaptations for English Learners
Chapter 6: Making Adaptations for Learners with Special Needs
Part 3: Task Specific Support
Chapter 7: Subject Specific Pedagogy
Chapter 8: Designing Instruction
Chapter 9: Assessing Learning
Chapter 10: Culminating Teaching Experience
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