TM-we have to use recall and prior knowledge in the classroom. challenging the students to relate it to past lessons.
TM- Share your feels and your life with them. If you are having a bad day, let them know why.
TM- never have a student in the class after class hours with the door closed. always document private interactions. cover your asssss.
TM- content teacher and there is also content student. we have to teach them to focus on something larger and apply what they learn in school to that. does this happen though. sepration of church and state?

kids can exist in the the learning environment with AD/HD without medication:

• access to outside environment
• meditation: make them pay attention quietly to ambient outdoors environment
• Sleep
• nutrition

Kimo is a proponent of alternatives to medication for AD/HD.

YES- Youth Empowerment Seminar- Yoga, Breathing, Relax, handling lifes stresses.

http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/di/aa/ap/index.asp -list of acronyms from Dept of Ed

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/ - as of 2006, all public high schoolers has to take this in order to graduate

TM- Keep three forms of accurate role. Paper attendance from office, the computer, and a separate gradebook that is yours only. keep grades as current as possible. keep multiple copies, your own gradebook that has categories. The principle has the right to hold paychecks if you can't produce the gradebook at the end of the year.

SDAIE- Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English. hand out from Kimo.

subscribe to taskstream.com because it will focus in on IA TPAs -TPA1 and TPA2 have to be done (615,605,611) before internship start. and CSET-sign up for CSET IA ASAP.

Assessment buzz words(TPA3 mainly and maybe TPA2): Formative and Summative: Norm reference and Criterion reference variance on both Form and Summ.. formal(have official university stamp of approval), informal(teacher designed) and authentic(teacher created with formal criteria) assessments

Kimo talks about copyrighting your authentic work... mail to yourself, distrust others for stealing your work and selling it in books.

NU is certifying teachers as CLD(clad) so we can be resource specialists at schools. RS can assess other teachers use of SDAIE and such.

Teaching program is geared towards the classroom, not a shop. I am wasting a lot of time being held to content that does not apply to shop.