CAEP Standards
Cassidy Dooly
Regent University
Standards
Standard 1: Understanding and addressing
each child’s development and learning Needs
Standard 2: Understanding and applying
content and curricular knowledge for teaching
Standard 3: Assessing, planning, and
designing context for learning
Evidence
Making each student in my classroom feel
seen, known, and included is very important
to me. Being aware of their cultures and
individual needs helped me build lessons that
were engaging and inclusive. I did not want
anyone to feel singled out. During our math
and Reaching lessons, the students completed
checklists that were tailored to their needs.
More content rich and stretching activities for
my higher students and fewer, but still content
driven activities for my lower students. These
students needed work they could complete
independently. They also had fewer
assignments because they get pulled for small
groups more frequently and by their SPED
teachers.
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Using the different resources made available
to me, I created lessons that were engaging,
practical, and aligned with the standards for
each subject and grade being taught. Using a
mix of information from district lesson plans,
district standards, state standards, and the
State framework. This can be seen in any of
the five lesson plans under the Professional
Development Page.
Assessing, planning, and designing content is
very important in the educational world. I
would use pre and post assessments on units
to build my instructional plans. Using the data
I was able to group students and know exactly
which parts of the unit I needed to focus the
whole group on. Comparing the pre and post
assessments not only helped me see the
growth and gaps in my students. It also helped
me self assess my own teaching and growth.
In places where multiple students had a

Standard 4: Supporting Each Child’s
Learning Using Effective Instruction
Standard 5: Developing as a profession
misconception or were confused, it was often
me not teaching it clearly. If and when that
happened, I would be quick to retreat and
correct myself. My Data Assessment is an
example of how I assessed and planned.
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I learned very quickly how each of my
students learned best and tried to offer
multiple opportunities for them to learn.
Outside of whole group lessons, we had
hands-on activities, technology resources,
videos, and manipulatives to help each child
learn in a way that was helpful to them.
Centers and independent work in my
kindergarten lesson plans show how I used
rotations and activities to connect the
standards of our lesson in ways that were
unique and fun.
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During my student teaching experience I was
placed with teachers who were both the chair
of the grade. I was able to attend every
meeting during teacher work week my first
week. I also attended collaborations,
professional development lectures, staff
meetings, PBIS meetings, and different
committee meetings. Each one I learned
something new and practiced working in a
collaborative community. I also used my
evaluations to make sure I was growing and
assessing myself along the way. My
evaluations can be seen under the Professional
Preparations Page.