BWYA SLOs

Ms. Alice finds 3,500 RMB on the football pitch. She picks it up and puts in her pocket. For a while she considers spending it on some new Xbox games, but in the end she decides to turn the money in to the principal.

Ms. Alice's decision is ___.

• balanced

• principled

• knowledgeable

• open-minded

Mr. Sykes is crying after his football team lost the big match. Mr. Sears buys him a coffee and gives him a pat on the back.

Mr. Sears is being ___.

• caring

• a communicator

• a risk-taker

• an inquirer

Ms. Hernanza makes her students run 10 laps around the track. Several students cry or throw up. Ms. Hernanza thinks about whether 10 laps was too many or not, and she decides to reduce the number of laps to 3 next time.

Ms. Hernanza is being ___.

• balanced

• an inquirer

• knowledgeable

• reflective

Mr. Jack works very hard at school, but he also makes time to play basketball three times a week. This helps him relax, have fun, and take his mind off his hard work.

Mr. Jack is being ___.

• principled

• balanced

• open-minded

• caring

Ms. Zhu hears the term "oligosaccharide" at a science department meeting but doesn't know what it means. That night, she spends three hours reading about the term on Wikipedia.

Ms. Zhu is becoming ___.

• balanced

• a risk-taker

• a thinker

• knowledgeable

Ms. Jessica really, really loves teaching English, but this year she has been asked to teach a class about bugs. At first she is not excited, but in the end she decides to make the most of this opportunity.

Ms. Jessica is being ___.

• open-minded

• balanced

• principled

• caring

Mr. Liu is playing badminton. The other players say some very, very bad words, and they even say some of these bad words directly to Mr. Liu. Mr. Liu decides not to curse back; he just smiles, gives high-fives, and says, "Good game, guys," even though he lost the game.

Mr. Liu is being a good ___.

• inquirer

• communicator

• risk-taker

• thinker

Ms. Linda just ordered many new tools for design class, but there is no place to store them. She looks everywhere for a place, but with no luck. Then, she has an idea: assign the students a task in which they make tool shelves.

Ms. Linda is an excellent ___.

• risk-taker

• communicator

• thinker

• inquirer

Mr. Sanders notices that all the boys in his homeroom have smelly feet. He researches why their feet are so smelly, giving out surveys and keeping a process journal of the investigation. He works hard and, in the end, discovers that none of the boys wash their socks.

Mr. Sanders is ___.

• open-minded

• principled

• an inquirer

• a thinker

Even though he knows that some students might laugh at him, Mr. Haggar wears an amazing cat costume for Halloween because it will make many people happy seeing him dressed as a large cat.

Mr. Haggar is ___.

• knowledgeable

• a risk-taker

• open-minded

• caring