edTPA Guidelines and Good Choices

Not gonna lie. This was A LOT of information to take in and this is probably going to be a shorter post because of that. I don't really know what to say besides that I'm glad that this is one of our reading assignments because I had no idea what the edTPA entailed. I even said it wrong in class one day because I said the edTPA instead of saying the TPA lesson plans for the unit plan we are working on. I had no idea that the edTPA was an actual assessment, I always thought the TPA lesson plans and edTPA were the same thing. But, the TPA is just the formatting we are learning because it's the format used on the assessment we will take to show that we can create a formal lesson plan. All of the information from the "Making Good Choices" one was awesome because it tells you the good choices to make during the assessment. It also says there's a handbook we will be given? Didn't know the handbook was even a thing, but I'm eager to start reading it so I can be fully prepared to take the edTPA assessment! How and/or when do we even get the handbook for that? I read there's more than one and you need it for your content area, so do we get them in a future class? Is it something we can buy ourselves? Is it given to us only when we have paid to take the edTPA? So. Many. Questions...