Strands
View a list of sessions for each Stand.
- New Session!
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Advanced Content Standards 15–20
- Best Practices
- BTSA/PAR Basics
- Leadership (Program Leaders & Administrators)
- Good for New Support Providers
Strands — Good for New Support Providers
Friday | March 30
A Sessions are from 9:00 - 10:15 A.M.
B Sessions are from 10:30 - 11:45 A.M.
C Sessions are from 1:45 - 3:00 P.M.
A1
Quality Coaching: An Introduction to Best Practices and Procedures
Kim Thoman, Instructional Strategies Coach, Professional Development Exchange
This session provides an introduction to coaching principles and best practices. Participants will examine the coaching process, skillful communication skills, and data-gathering tools. Support providers, consulting teachers, and administrators will learn ways to develop credibility, ways to use essential communication skills to support relationships promoting professional growth, and techniques to gather objective specific data during classroom observations. If you are interested in adding to your effectiveness as an instructional leader and/or providing training to those developing coaching skills, join us for an interactive session sure to provide you with tools you can implement immediately.
Strands: New Session! | Coaching and Mentoring | Good for New Support Providers
A3
Inclusive Interactive Teaching Strategies
Andrew Stetkevich, Staff Development Specialist, Riverside Staff Development Center, Riverside USD
More and more students who learn differently will be placed in general education classes. This presentation will focus on best practices for meeting the needs of ALL students in order to bring up those underperforming subgroups. Strategies for slower learners, second language learners, special education students, children of poverty, and other children who learn differently will be demonstrated and shared along with interactive teaching techniques. Come prepared to participate and activate your power to learn new and exciting ways to engage ALL students in mastering the state standards.
Strands: New Session! | Advanced Content Standards 15–20 | Good for New Support Providers
B7
Support Provider 101
Peggy Chute, BTSA Coordinator, District Office, Fontana USD
This session will give you the BTSA basics—“everything you always wanted to know” as a first-year support provider. Come and learn how to build that trusting relationship, become a better listener, handle the different phases the new teacher experiences, develop questioning techniques, R&R (rules and regulations), and other skills that will help you become an effective support provider.
Strands: New Session! | BTSA/PAR Basics | Good for New Support Providers
C4
Advanced Content Standards 15–20
Jacqueline Anderson, Seminar Trainer for MCOE-BTSA, Monterey County Office of Education
Understanding and completing the Advanced Content Standards 15–20 can be challenging for both new teachers and support providers. Could you use some ideas and techniques to help that process along? Monterey County Office of Education BTSA Induction Program will show how they integrate these standards into the formative assessment process in a user-friendly and productive way. This session would be most productive for those who use the CFASST program.
Strands: New Session! | Advanced Content Standards 15–20 | Good for New Support Providers
Saturday | March 31
D Sessions are from 8:30 - 9:45 A.M.
E Sessions are from 10:00 - 11:15 A.M.
D6
“P.T.Q.” (Practiced Teaching Quick Tips!)
Imetra Joiner, Classroom Teacher/Mentor; Barbara Carlson, Classroom Teacher/Former Support Provider, Oakmont Elementary School, Claremont USD
“P.T.Q.” or Practiced Teaching Quick Tips is a lively refresher session of great teaching practices that support providers can share with their PTs quickly for classroom zest. These ageless practices require little preparation but are lifesavers for PTs who are in survival mode, or who are simply wishing to add a “new school” twist to “old school” methods.
Strands: New Session! | Best Practices | Good for New Support Providers
E10
Firsthand Information: Q&A with Experienced Support Providers
Peggy Chute, BTSA Coordinator, District Office, Fontana USD
Have questions about working as a support provider and/or PAR consultant? This session is for you! New support providers will have an opportunity to ask questions and get candid, real-life answers and perspectives from support providers who have been at this work for a number of years. This session will be highly interactive. Bring your questions! Feel free to come with some answers as well.
Strands: New Session! | BTSA/PAR Basics | Good for New Support Providers
