Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.1 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Learns about students Gathers additional data to Uses data from a variety of Uses data from multiple Uses comprehensive through data provided by learn about individual formal and informal measures to make knowledge of students to the school and/or students. sources to learn about adjustments to instruction make ongoing assessments. students and guide and meet individual adjustments and selection of instructional identified learning needs. accommodations in strategies to meet diverse instruction. Using knowledge of learning needs. students to engage Students actively utilize a them in learning Some students may Students engage in single Student engage in learning variety of instructional Students take ownership engage in learning using lessons or sequence of through the use of strategies and of their learning by instructional strategies lessons that include some adjustments in instruction technologies in learning choosing from a wide focused on the class as a adjustments based on to meet their needs. that ensure equitable range of methods to whole. assessments. 9/25/18 access to the curriculum. further their learning that are responsive to their learning needs. Information about the demographics of each student is provided online - including students with special needs.
Students also fill out a
letter at the beginning of the year talking about their interests, their favorite thing they learned in their previous science class, and what makes Evidence school difficult.
I also ask parents at back
to school night to list things they’d like me to know about their student. 9/25/18 Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning Element 1.2 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Develops awareness of Uses gathered Uses school resources and Integrates broad Develops and prior knowledge, culture, information about family contacts to expand knowledge of students systematically uses backgrounds, life students’ prior understanding of and their communities to extensive information experiences, and interests knowledge, cultural students’ prior inform instruction. regarding students’ represented among backgrounds, life knowledge, cultural cultural backgrounds, students. experiences, and interest backgrounds, life prior knowledge, life Connecting learning to support student experiences, and interests experiences, and to students’ prior learning. to connect to student interests. knowledge, learning. backgrounds, life experiences, and Some students connect Students participate in Students make Students are actively Students can articulate interests learning activities to their single lessons or connections between engaged in curriculum, the relevance and impact own lives. sequences of lessons curriculum, and their which relates their prior of lessons on their lives related to their interests prior knowledge, knowledge, experiences, and society. and experiences. 9/25/18 backgrounds, life and interests within and experiences, and across learning activities. interests. Every new unit begins with students questioning their prior knowledge and what they already know about the topic. I ask students what they know about the topic or where they may have heard of it. For example, we just Evidence finished structure of the atom, and students were asked to make a drawing of what they understood the atom to look like before they actually learned about it. 9/25/18 Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning Element 1.3 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Uses real-life connections Explore using additional Integrates connections Integrates connections to Engages student in during instruction as real-life connections to from subject matter to meaningful, real-life actively making identified to curriculum. subject matter in single meaningful, real-life contexts in planning connections to relevant, lessons or sequence of contexts, including those subject matter instruction meaningful, and real-life lessons to support specific to students’ and is responsive during contexts throughout understanding. family and community. instruction to engage subject matter Connecting subject students in relating to instruction. matter to subject matter. meaningful, real-life contexts Some students relate Students make use of Students utilize real-life Students actively engage Students routinely subject matter to real-life. real-life connections connections regularly to in making and using integrate subject matter provided in single lessons develop understandings real-life connections to into their own thinking or sequence of lessons to of subject matter. subject matter to extend and make relevant support understanding of their understanding. applications of subject subject matter. 9/25/18 matter during learning activities. In lessons I ask students what they already know about the topic and do my best to use examples from their everyday life. For example, the lesson we are currently in talks about light and Evidence energy. I ask students about what they already know about light and how we see it. 9/25/18 Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning Element 1.4 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Uses instructional Explores additional Utilizes a variety of Creates, adapts, and Refines the flexible use of strategies, resources, and instructional strategies, strategies including integrates a broad range an extensive repertoire of technologies as provided resources, and culturally responsive of strategies, resources, strategies, resources, and by school and/or district. technologies in single pedagogy, resources, and and technologies into technologies to meet lessons or sequence of technologies during instruction designed to students’ diverse learning Using a variety of lessons to meet students’ ongoing instruction to meet students’ diverse needs. instructional diverse learning needs. meet students’ diverse learning needs. strategies, resources, learning needs. and technologies to meet students’ Some students participate Students participate in Students participate in Students actively engage Students take diverse learning in instructional strategies, single lessons or instruction using in instruction and make responsibilities for using needs using resources and sequence of lessons strategies, resources, and use of a variety of a wide range of strategies, technologies provided. related to their interests technologies matched to targeted strategies, resources, and and experiences. their learning needs. resources, and technologies that 9/25/18 technologies to meet their successfully advance their individual students needs. learning. I do my best to make sure resources are accessible to students - hard copies of materials if they forget their laptop or iPad, extra materials in class in case they do not have supplies or forgot them at Evidence home, etc. Clarify instructions for ELL students. Do verbal assessments for students with injuries that prevent them from writing on their own. 9/25/18 Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning Element 1.5 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Asks questions that focus Includes questions in Guide students to think Supports students to Facilitates systematic on factual knowledge and single lessons or a critically through use of initiate critical thinking opportunities for student comprehension. sequence of lessons that questioning strategies, through independently to apply critical thinking require students to recall, posing/solving problems, developing questions, by designing structured interpret, and think and reflection on issues in posing problems and inquiries into complex Promoting critical critically. content. reflecting on multiple problems. thinking through perspectives. inquiry, problem solving, and Some students respond to Students respond to Students respond to Students pose problems Students pose and answer reflection questions regarding facts varied questions or tasks questions and problems and construct questions a wide-range of complex and comprehension. designed to promote posed by the teacher and of their own to support questions and problems, comprehension and begin to pose and solve inquiries into content. reflect, and communicate critical thinking in single problems of their own understandings based on lessons or a sequence of related to the content. in depth analysis of lessons. 9/25/18 content learning. Students are given warm up questions, practice problems, and assessments that require critical thinking and multiple steps. I use the I, we, you method in which I do a few examples, we do examples Evidence together, and students do examples on their own. 9/25/18 Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning Element 1.6 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Implements lessons Seeks to clarify Makes ongoing Adjusts strategies during Makes adjustments to following curriculum instruction and learning adjustments to instruction based on the extend learning guidelines. activities to support instruction based on ongoing monitoring of opportunities and student understanding. observation of student individual student needs provide assistance to engagement and regular for assistance, support, or students in mastering the Monitoring student checks for understanding. challenge. concepts flexibly and learning and effectively. adjusting instruction while teaching. Some students receive Students receive Students successfully Students are able to Students monitor their individual assistance assistance individually or participate and stay articulate their level of progress in learning and during instruction. in small groups during engaged in learning understanding and use provide information to instruction. 9/25/18 activities. teacher guidance to meet teacher that informs their needs during adjustments in instruction. instruction. Students are given direct instruction and lectures and then work on their own in small groups. I walk around and answer any questions they may have and pose questions that further their thinking Evidence if needed. 9/25/18