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a person who, because of his or her profession, is legally required to report any suspicion of child abuse or neglect
What is a mandated reporter?
a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction or "learning trajectory" for a lesson.
What is a Lesson Plan?
a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.
What is Kahoot?
a strategy in which the teacher reduces the distance between herself and a student as a way to remind that student of expectations.
What is proximity?
Golden Valley Mascot
What is a Bulldog?
A 3 hour exam that consists of Math, English, and Instructional questions.
What is the paraprofessional exam?
visual patterns that are used across all grades to build the critical thinking, problem-solving, comprehension, and communication skills necessary for academic success.
What is Thinking Maps?
a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google
What is Google Drive?
expressing your point of view in a way that is clear and direct, while still respecting others
What is assertive communication?
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
indicates what students should know and should be able to do at their grade level.
What are state standards?
brief, clear statements that describe the desired learning outcomes of instruction
What are Objectives/Learning Targets?
a learning platform developed by Google for educational institutions to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments.
What is Google Classroom?
the process of developing the self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal skills that are vital for school, work, and life success
What is social-emotional learning?
Animal that only eats plants.
working in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience.
What is an internship?
these students have been identified as gifted or talented
What is GATE?
Meditation for students K-8
What is Mindfulness?
gatherings in which all participants sit in a circle facing each other to facilitate open, direct communication
What is a classroom circle?
also known as nursery education
What is Early Childhood Education?
What does CDE stand for?
What is the California Department of Education
A term that is used to refer a kind of criticism to improve others’ advancement or to promote further development.
What is constructive criticism?
free web-based word processor in which documents can be created, edited and stored
What is Google Docs?
a self-reflective statement of your beliefs about teaching and learning.
What is a philosophy of teaching?
Home to polar bears, penguins, and elephant seals.
What is Antarctica?