CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

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Plans daily lessons using Plans single lessons or Plans differentiated Plans differentiated Plans differentiated
available curriculum and sequence of lessons using instruction based on instruction, which is instruction that provides
information from district additional assessment knowledge of students’ based on broad systematic opportunities
and state required information on student academic readiness, knowledge of students. for supporting and
assessments. academic readiness, academic language, Matches resources and extending student
language, cultural diverse cultural specific strategies to learning based on
4.1 Using knowledge background, and backgrounds, and students’ diverse learning comprehensive
of students’ academic individual development. individual cognitive, needs and cultural information on students.
readiness, language social, emotional, and backgrounds.
proficiency, cultural physical development to
background, and meet their individual
individual needs.
development to plan Is aware of impact of bias Becomes aware of Planning addresses bias, Engages students in the
instruction. on learning. potential areas of bias Examines potential stereotyping, and analysis of bias,
and seeks to learn about sources of bias and assumptions about stereotyping, and
culturally responsive stereotyping when cultures an members of assumptions.
pedagogy. planning lessons. Uses cultures.
culturally responsive
pedagogy in planning.

I plan history-based I try to to get my students

writing assessment that to think about how
are designed and history in America is at
scaffolded to both test times, whitewashed. For
and advance the reading example, when we
and writing level of all my studied Columbus’ voyage
students. These lessons to America, we discussed
are designed to work in how Columbus could not
conjunction with the have discovered America
English curriculum to because people already
support cross- lived there. Then we
disciplinary instruction. discussed why Americans
would want to believe
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discover America and
why we celebrate
Columbus Day.

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CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

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Communicates learning Establishes and shares Establishes and Establishes and Establishes and
objectives for a single learning goals for skill communicates to articulates learning goals articulates
lesson to students based development with students clear learning to students that integrate comprehensive short-
4.2 Establishing and on content standards and students in single lessons goals for content that are content standards with term and long-term
articulating goals for available curriculum. and sequence of lessons. accessible, challenging, students’ strengths, learning goals for
student learning and differentiated to interests, and learning students. Assists students
address students’ diverse needs. to articulate and monitor
learning needs. learning goals.

I post a daily digital

agenda on my teacher
website where I highlight
the California state
standards addressed in
the lesson, the desired
learning outcome, and the
assessment method that I
am using to gauge
student understanding.

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Uses available curriculum Begins to plan curriculum Establishes short- and Refines sequence of long- Utilizes extensive
4.3 Developing and
CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

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for daily, short- and long- units that include a series long-term curriculum term plans to reflect knowledge of curriculum,
term plans. of connected lessons and plans for subject matter integrations of content standards, and
sequencing long- are linked to long-term concepts and essential curriculum guidelines, assess learning needs to
term and short-term planning to support related academic frameworks, and design cohesive and
instructional plans to student learning. language and formats assessed instructional comprehensive long- and
support student that support student needs to ensure student short-term instructional
learning learning. learning. plans that ensure high
levels of learning.

I scaffold my vocabulary
use throughout the year. I
usually provide key terms
and subject specific
vocabulary at the
beginning of the year. In
the middle I no longer
provide definitions, and
at the end of the year I
ask that students go
through the text
themselves and pick out
words they do not know
and find definitions for
those words relevant to
the content.

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CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

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Plans instruction that Selects strategies for Incorporates Plans instruction using a Plans instruction
incorporates strategies single lessons or differentiated wide range of strategies incorporating a
suggested by curriculum sequence of lessons that instructional strategies to address learning styles repertoire of strategies
guidelines. respond to students’ into ongoing planning and meet students’ specifically meet
diverse learning needs. that addresses culturally assessed language and students’ diverse
4.4 Planning responsive pedagogy, learning needs. Provides language and learning
instruction that students’ diverse appropriate support and needs and styles to
incorporates language, and learning challenges for students. advance learning for all.
appropriate Is aware of student Seeks to learn about needs and styles.
strategies to meet content, learning, and students’ diverse learning Integrates results from a Facilitates opportunities
the learning needs of language needs through and language needs Uses assessments of broad range of for students to reflect on
all students data provided by the site beyond basic data. students’ learning and assessments into their learning and the
and district. language needs to inform planning to meet impact of instructional
planning differentiated students’ diverse learning strategies to meet their
instruction. and language needs. learning and language
needs.

As a department, we set
out goals at the beginning
of each semester in term
of curriculum and skills.
For example, this
semester my department
is using a scaffolded
approach to reading and
analyzing primary
sources.

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CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

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Implements lessons and Begins to adapt plans and Makes adjustments and Makes ongoing Anticipates and plans for
uses materials from materials in single adaptations to adjustments to a wide range of
curriculum provided. lessons or sequences of differentiate instructional instructional plans and adaptations to lessons
lessons to address plans. Uses culturally uses a variety of based on in depth
4.5 Adapting
students’ learning needs. responsive pedagogy and materials as the analysis of individual
instructional plans
additional materials to instructional needs arises student needs.
and curricular
support students’ diverse to support student
materials to meet the
learning needs. learning. Engages with students to
assessed learning
identify types of
needs of all students.
adjustments in
instruction that best meet
their learning goals.

I incorporate knowledge
checks into my lessons.
These knowledge checks
are all recall in nature
and so if students are
struggling with the
knowledge check, then I
know I need to go back
and review some material
before moving on.
Perhaps I need to
approach the content in a
different way to ensure
equitable access.

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