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 Uses data from multiple Uses comprehensive
through data provided by learn about individual of formal and informal measures to make knowledge of students to
the school and/or students. sources to learn about adjustments to make ongoing
assessments. students and guide instruction and meet adjustments and
selection of instructional individual identified accommodations in
strategies to meet diverse learning needs. instruction.
Using knowledge of learning needs.
students to engage
them in learning Some students may Students engage in single Students engage in Students actively utilize a Students take ownership
engage in learning using lessons or sequence of learning through the use variety of instructional of their learning by
instructional strategies lessons that include some of adjustments in strategies and choosing from a wide
focused on the class as a adjustments based on instruction to meet their technologies in learning range of methods to
whole. assessments. needs. that ensure equitable further their learning that
access to the curriculum. are responsive to their
learning needs.
Evidence Students fill out an
Interest Survey Google
Survey prior to the first
day for me to learn more
about their likes/dislikes.
I implement these when
deciding what type of
homeroom activities I do.
For example: I have a lot
of students who like art
and like to draw. Once a
month, I plan a directed
draw activity during my
homeroom time.
(8/20/21)

In addition, I use Star 360

for their initial
assessment. (8/23/21)

I also have used a variety

of “getting to know you”
activities this year.(8/23
and ongoing)

I use assessment data to

learn which students
need to be invited to
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
small group
sessions(ongoing)

I incorporate grammar
warm ups at the
beginning of class,
although I do not have a
way of checking for each
students completeness or
participation in these
activities (ongoing)

I am still trying to figure

out how to incorporate
exit tickets and use them
to help me check day to
day understanding of
material.
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. backgrounds, life and interests within and
experiences, and across learning activities.
interests.
Evidence I have attempted to
create lessons in
which students can
activate prior
knowledge or lessons
in which students can
relate to the
characters/subject
we are reading about.
I ask students if they
know anyone who is
like a particular
character in stories
they have read or if
they could describe
how this character
would be today. (Fall,
2021)

Students have a
choice in writing
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
assignments. For
example: When
asking students to
write a Fable, they
have a choice in the
type of characters
they want to create
and the moral they
want to teach us.
(9/24/21)

Oftentimes, Your
Choice assignments
come up and I allow
students to choose
what they would like
to write about, giving
them some guidelines
to follow. (ongoing).

We do send out a
Interest Survey a
week before school
starts but I am
unsure on how to
really incorporate
those interests into
their classwork.
(8/20/21)
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 real- integrate subject matter
provided in single lessons develop understandings life connections to subject into their own thinking
or sequence of lessons to of subject matter. matter to extend their and make relevant
support understanding of understanding. applications of subject
subject matter. matter during learning
activities.
Evidence I create connections
between what we
learn in stories and
what we learn in real
life by showing a
connection between
the stories we read
and Newsela articles.
I will then facilitate a
discussion where
students can share
their thoughts on the
real world
application.(Q1,
2021)

Assessments given
ask the student to
compare and
contrast the stories
we read and these
real-life articles. They
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.4 Emerging
Using a variety of Uses instructional
instructional strategies, resources, and
strategies, resources, technologies as provided
and technologies to by school and/or district.
meet students’
diverse learning
needs
Some students participate
in instructional strategies,
using resources and
technologies provided.
compare the theme,
central/main idea,
supporting details
and are also able to
point out their
differences (Q1,
2021)
In addition, while
discussing characters
I ask students if they
know anyone in their
life that reminds
them of a particular
character, either in
real life or in
something they have
watched. They need
to give supporting
details when
comparing. (Q1,
2021)
Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Explores additional Utilizes a variety of Creates, adapts, and Refines the flexible use of
instructional strategies, strategies including integrates a broad range an extensive repertoire of
resources, and culturally responsive of strategies, resources, strategies, resources, and
technologies in single pedagogy, resources, and and technologies into technologies to meet
lessons or sequence of technologies during instruction designed to students’ diverse learning
lessons to meet students’ ongoing instruction to meet students’ diverse needs.
diverse learning needs. meet students’ diverse learning needs.
learning needs.
Students participate in Students participate in Students actively engage Students take
single lessons or instruction using in instruction and make responsibilities for using
sequence of lessons strategies, resources, and use of a variety of a wide range of strategies,
related to their interests technologies matched to targeted strategies, resources, and
and experiences. their learning needs. resources, and technologies that
technologies to meet their successfully advance their
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
individual students learning.
needs.
I use a variety of
instructional
strategies and
materials to meet the
needs of all learners.

I facilitate class
discussions by asking
guiding questions to
students. For
example: Before
reading a piece of
non-fiction I will ask
students to discuss
between themselves
what questions they
have from looking at
the title and picture.
Evidence
(Ongoing)

I use small groups

two times a week to
help students that
are struggling to
master an essential
standard or need
extra support on an
assignment.
(ongoing)

At least once a week

we practice popcorn
reading to improve
prosody, rate and
accuracy in students.
(at least 1x a week)
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
Promoting critical critically.
thinking though
inquiry, problem
solving, and Some students respond to Students respond to
reflection questions regarding facts varied questions or tasks
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. reflecting on multiple problems.
perspectives.
Students respond to Students pose problems Students pose and answer
questions and problems and construct questions a wide-range of complex
posed by the teacher and of their own to support questions and problems,
begin to pose and solve inquiries into content. reflect, and communicate
problems of their own understandings based on
related to the content. in depth analysis of
content learning.
I use a variety of
questioning
strategies with my
students. One
strategy I use is
Action-Build-
Challenge. A student
will answer a
question and then I
will have students
either agree or
disagree with them. I
will choose a student
who disagrees and
ask them to justify
their answer but
proving the other
student wrong. If
they agree with the
first student, they
need to build upon
that answer and add
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
something to the
conversation. This
encourages my
students to think
more deeply about
the question at
hand(ongoing).

Another strategy I
use is the wait
strategy. This one is
difficult but I wait for
the question to sink
in for students and I
do not allow “calling
out” or answering
before I ask students
to answer. This
allows all students to
really get a chance to
think about how they
want to answer and
fosters participation
for all levels of
ability. When
students call out
answers (or in my
platform, type
answers in the chat)
other students who
have not found the
answer will stop
thinking about the
answer and wait for
someone else to
answer(ongoing).
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. activities. teacher guidance to meet teacher that informs
their needs during adjustments in
instruction. instruction.
I monitor student
learning through
Quizziz’s, Exit tickets,
assignments and
assessments. For
those students who
are struggling, I hold
small group sessions
and even 1:1 sessions
where I see fit in
order to reinforce
those essential
Evidence
standards. I do not
reassess at this point
and I feel like this is
where I could use
some direction. It is
hard for me to use
flexible groupings in
this. Most cases, my
generally struggling
students will be
invited to the small
sessions(ongoing).
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning