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
on factual knowledge and single lessons or a
comprehension. sequence of lessons that
require students to recall,
interpret, and think
critically.
Promoting critical
thinking though
inquiry, problem
Some students respond to Students respond to
solving, and
questions regarding facts varied questions or tasks
reflection
and comprehension. designed to promote
comprehension and
critical thinking in single
lessons or a sequence of
lessons.
Evidence
Guide students to think Supports students to Facilitates systematic
critically through use of initiate critical thinking opportunities for student
questioning strategies, through independently to apply critical thinking
posing/solving problems, developing questions, by designing structured
and reflection on issues in posing problems and inquiries into complex
content. (9/22/20) reflecting on multiple problems.
perspectives.
Students respond to Students pose problems Students pose and
questions and problems and construct questions answer a wide-range of
posed by the teacher and of their own to support complex questions and
begin to pose and solve inquiries into content. problems, reflect, and
problems of their own communicate
related to the content. understandings based on
(9/22/20) in depth analysis of
content learning.
In all lessons, I am always
trying to have students
explain to me their
understanding of
something or their
though process. I use exit
tickets that helps with
knowing where they are
after a lesson. During a
lesson I am always
pushing them to think
about things from a
different perspective or,
in math, to talk me
through their thought
process or use technology
in a way that I can see
their though process. For
ELA I use comprehension
checks and quizzes.
(9/22/20)

Students typically are

responding to questions
that are posed by me. I
usually have to ask more
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
questions to get a deeper
response. In this,
students are given
opportunities to assess
their own learning and
establish goals for
themselves through our
one-on-one meetings.
(9/22/20)