Can you write the steps here?

I know this will work on my math project. Thank you so much. It is really fun. Keep up the good work.

Hi Johnnie, is there any way I can hire you to look over my submission? Thank you!!

I passed Cycle 1 in large part due to the videos you made for the process. I'm starting Cycle 2 now and am happy to see all of the workbooks for this TPA. Thank you for breaking everything down in manageable chunks.

Amazing, you are doing the work of a hero for us beleaguered credential candidates.

It was very helpful to complete my math holiday homework 😊😊😊

Thank you! Any guidance on Parts D, E, and F?

Oh! This is the "Old Math" in Tom Lehrers song about "The New Math". Funny how you call what Tom considered "new math" the "traditional method" and present what in 1965 was "how math was taught" as an alternative!

Thank you for your resources! I am struggling to find the Frame for lesson plan. I used the one you had for cycle 1, but I don't see it in this shared folder. You mention it in this video 2:50 Lesson Plan Frame but it's not in the folder. Would you be able to share that please?

These are the most incredible resources I have found. This is truly saving me for Cycle 2. I am so grateful for all the hard work and time you put into these and then to share it for free is so kind. I am so appreciative!!! Thank you!!!! This is absolutely amazing.

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You are a true life saver and I am thankful everyday I found your videos and workbook templates. I struggled with Cycle 1 with your help but without it, I would have been dead in the water. Starting Cycle 2 now and looking forward to the hell that I must endure but again, without your help, I would be lost. Thank you so much Johnnie!!!!

Thank you for these great tips, would you be able to share this document that has your notes?

Hello All, I was hired by a private school before finishing Cycle 2. Its been a couple of years now and I am wanted to go back and finish this, but it's so difficult to find the motivation after you have been teaching for awhile. Anyone out there in the same situation? Can you please share your approach? Thanks in advance.

The California Teacher’s Association recently had a very critical write up on the Cal TPA and there is a bill submitted to the CA assembly to eliminate the Cal TPA. I’m early in the process of completing cycle 1, but this critique is helpful as knowing the flaws of your enemy is helpful in bringing them down, or in this case getting past the gatekeeper that is the Cal TPA.

Johnie, you're an absolute legend for providing these for free. I was about to dish at $200 to pay for a nearly identical guide to yours, but gave pause and found yours. These are exactly what I was looking for - thanks!

Hi! I was wondering if you or anybody you know tutors for cycle 2? I have been struggling to pass!

Thank you so much for making all of these videos. They are so helpful!

THANK YOU for your resources. Your videos and workbooks provided me the with a clear path to success. May God bless you and keep you and yours well.

It is at once comforting and upsetting to know that all the problems I have picked out of the CAL TPA... are represented here. That they don't practice what they preach at all, that they just want canned garbage, that its bad for the students, that its word salad over load of concepts, and that it feels like it wants me to fail. I'm mid Cycle 2 and I'm just trying to not quit completely. I've spent two weeks hammering my keyboard with complete garbage writing poorly representing ideas that arent bad on their own but in how the CALTPA is demanding I use them are worthless. Hazing. That is what the CAL TPA feels like. And I have a decent advisor for my CAL TPA. Not as awesome as you sound like, but still.

This is a homeschooling mom's dream channel. Thank you so much.

Hello Thank you for these resources. Would these still apply to the revised templates coming out in July? Thank you for your time

Johnnie, Thank you for your resources, and for taking the time to break them down into workbooks. Everyone needing to pass caltpa 2 that doesn't know where to begin, needs to watch these videos and use his resources. I would have never known what the rubrics meant. Your resources were indispensable for passing. God bless you!!

Cannot thank you enough. I revised what I thought was a good submission following your guidebook. I got my results last night and the proverbial weight was lifted off my shoulders. I will never know how my original would have scored, but I place my 4s directly on your shoulders. On to Cycle 2!

Hi. Would you happen to have done a video similar to this one, but for Version 5.0? Thanks in advance.

Thank you for providing this guide!! I am hoping you can answer a few questions: 1. Does each lesson in the lesson segment have to have a different CA content standard or can we have one overarching CA Content standard and different content learning goals for each lesson? 2. Does each lesson in the lesson segment need to have examples of all three assessments or can we have one for each lesson?

Love this!😊

Is teaching 'the order of operations', PEMDAS a central focus addressing the content specific foci of EDTPA for 5th grade, for the Math assessment task 4?

I was going to submit Cycle 2 for the April deadline. This is perfect timing. Thank you!

Ha ha, you're preaching to the choir! When I did student teaching, I had to deal with a very wild and very rowdy classroom that had just come back from the covid lockdown. This was a pretty rough test in classroom management, and I realized then that the absolute first thing you have to be able to do as a teacher is to get a rowdy classroom under control. This wasn't really dealt with the CALTPA. The most critical lessons in teaching effectively are learned by doing. I couldn't understand why teachers would be judged on what they write vs. what they can actually do in the classroom.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this wonderful channel! It is so simply explained and so handy. Both intriguing for math and craft lovers. I also love the narration. Now I need to start studying all this material! Thanks again.

Thank you! This was more helpful than any other resources I've seen for Cycle 1. I feel much more confident about submitting Cycle 1 now that I've gone through the Google Drive you provided. Are there going to be Google Drive resources for Cycle 2? Thank you again!

Thank you for providing such a helpful video, with all the resources contained in one place. I am currently completing CalTPA cycle 1 and have found your video to be extremely helpful.

You are amazing, thank you so much for these resources! I shall be sharing them with my cohort, you rock Johnnie!

Is there talking on this? I am still struggling to pass these. Its been hard for me. I feel discouraged.

Thank you! I will definitely try this with my kid!

My videos are saying annotations required when they are there. I missed the deadline tonight because I couldn’t figure it out. Any help is appreciated.

you are so underrated !!! .I love your games , they are so fun !!

Thank you for providing these videos they are extremely helpful. I am on part D related instructional resources and materials. Is there an additional lesson plan that I need to submit along with the templates?

Hi Johnnie... I received a 19 on my Cal TPA cycle 2 Math. I'm wondering if you ever help with looking over lessons to see what is needed by the scoring comments. I'm at a loss as of right now and not sure what direction to take.

Hello, This is great video! Thank you! I am wondering if there is a transcript of the captions for this video? That would help me as well.

This is a must watch before submitting cycle 1, if not before you do your lesson! Thanks

Huge help! There's a few changes for the 2022 version, but it still is broadly the same. I appreciate this so much!!!

*If there are 3 lessons in the learning segment - does each lesson have a separate formal assessment and separate learning goal? Or is it one learning goal and one formal assessment for the entire segment?*

Hello, I would like to use one of the rubrics in your video for my assessment if possible, but looks blurry, the one with procedural fluency and conceptual understanding in them. Thank you!

Thank you for this video. It clarifies many things for me regarding cycle 2.

Do you have a video on how to design student assessment rubrics?

Hi Johnnie, for the informal assessment clip can I show only one student that I sat next to assess, ask hots, and provide feedback?

Can the self-assessment rubric be given in an lesson from cycle 2, or does it have to be the final lesson of cycle 2?