My Personal Approach to BTSA Training

October 31, 2011
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I was cleaning out the back room all weekend.

You might well ask why, considering that my regulars know the state of my classroom. (Here are a couple of flashbacks to last year’s picture tour: Part I, Part II.)

The answer is… My wife bought me a pinball machine for my 50th birthday (still a little over a week away, but close enough when a machine goes on Craigslist only 25 miles away) and it’s being delivered on Wednesday, and I have to make room for it in the pantry/junk room.

I have wanted to have a pinball machine in my house for over 40 years. Finally! Here’s a picture of the kind I’m getting. Mine’s a little more “well-used,” but plays beauty.

I CAN NOT WAIT.

Anyway, while I was hauling shtuff out of the back room, I came across an “artifact” from one of my BTSA training sessions a few years ago.

We were supposed to be brainstorming with our table groups about what teacher behaviors we would be looking for to cover each of the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP). We were, I guess, supposed to watching our BTSA charges, and encouraging said behaviors. It looks like I ran out of steam after the first one. I think I was at the snack table for the Creating a Learning Environment one.

The assessing learning one looks sort of like my old PE teacher in junior high.

My “notes” at faculty meeting are pretty similar, except they have a lot more guillotines and tanks and laser-firing space ships.

 

 

 


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