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
through data provided by learn about individual
the school and/or students.
assessments.
Using knowledge of
students to engage
them in learning Some students may Students engage in single
engage in learning using lessons or sequence of
instructional strategies lessons that include some
focused on the class as a adjustments based on
whole. assessments.9/20/21
Based on my assessment of
students’ reading level and
foundational skills, I
modify my lessons to
include kinesthetic
motions to aid students in
recall of academic
vocabulary. 9/20/21
Evidence
Uses data from a variety of
formal and informal
sources to learn about
students and guide
selection of instructional
strategies to meet diverse
learning needs. 9/20/21
Student engage in learning
through the use of
adjustments in instruction
to meet their needs.
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I have spoken to the
students’ previous teacher
and the school
administration to receive
notes on students’
academic progress. The
knowledge of their gaps in
foundational skills due to
being on zoom for the last
year and half prompted me
to conduct full literacy
assessments of all my
students so I can better
meet their needs.
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Uses data from multiple
measures to make
adjustments to instruction
and meet individual
identified learning needs.
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Students actively utilize a
variety of instructional
strategies and
technologies in learning
that ensure equitable
access to the curriculum.
I use data from quizzes,
freckle reading system,
and quickwrites to make
adjustments to instruction
and help individual
students meet their needs.
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Uses comprehensive
knowledge of students to
make ongoing
adjustments and
accommodations in
instruction.
Students take ownership
of their learning by
choosing from a wide
range of methods to
further their learning that
are responsive to their
learning needs.

Students are engaged

with adjustments
such as guiding
questions and
multiple modalities of
instruction including
total physical
response 5/8/22
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.2 Emerging
Develops awareness of
prior knowledge, culture,
backgrounds, life
experiences, and interests
represented among
students.
Connecting learning
to students’ prior
knowledge,
backgrounds, life
experiences, and
Some students connect
interests
learning activities to their
own lives.
Evidence
Exploring Applying
Uses gathered Uses school resources and
information about family contacts to expand
students’ prior understanding of
knowledge, cultural students’ prior
backgrounds, life knowledge, cultural
experiences, and interest backgrounds, life
to support student experiences, and interests
learning. to connect to student
learning..9/20/21 5/8/22
Students participate in Students make
single lessons or connections between
sequences of lessons curriculum, and their
related to their interests prior knowledge,
and experiences. backgrounds, life
experiences, and
interests.9/20/21
I have also collected
“funds of knowledge”
surveys from parents,
which I use to inform
bridging and
contextualization of
academic knowledge. I
also am aware of my
students’ beliefs as we are
a faith based school. I
integrate that knowledge
in social studies lessons,
for example having
students compare and
contrast their beliefs with
those of various Native
American communities.
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Integrating Innovating
Integrates broad Develops and
knowledge of students systematically uses
and their communities to extensive information
inform instruction regarding students’
cultural backgrounds,
Students are actively prior knowledge, life
engaged in curriculum, experiences, and
which relates their prior interests.
knowledge, experiences,
and interests within and
across learning Students can articulate
activities.5/8/22 the relevance and impact
of lessons on their lives
and society.
Students were
engaged with
examples from their
prior knowledge. For
example, when
examining the
climate of California’s
coast, students
referenced similar
mediterranean
climate in Spain,
which is where many
of them vacation
together (I had four
third graders this
year, all of whom
were quadruplets).
5/8/22
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 9/20/215/8/22 students in relating to instruction.
matter to subject matter.
meaningful, real-life
contexts Some students relate Students make use of Students actively engage Students routinely
subject matter to real-life. real-life connections Students utilize real-life in making and using integrate subject matter
provided in single lessons connections regularly to real-life connections to into their own thinking
or sequence of lessons to develop understandings subject matter to extend and make relevant
support understanding of of subject matter. their understanding. applications of subject
subject matter.9/20/21 matter during learning
activities.
I provide students I engage students in
with connections to learning about
real life contexts to California’s
make content geography by using
knowledge relevant. familiar places in
For example, students’ local
students know they communities as
must learn to write examples of content
an address correctly standards such as
so they can mail a local resources.
Evidence letter to a relative. 9/20/21
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Students wrote
advertisements in the
persuasive writing
unit for a Eid
Carnival. Eid is a
holiday that students
at my faith-based
school are
celebrating. 5/8/22
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.5/8/22
strategies, resources, learning
and technologies to needs.9/20/21
meet students’ Some students participate Students participate in Students actively engage Students take
diverse learning in instructional strategies, single lessons or sequence Students participate in in instruction and make responsibilities for using
needs using resources and of lessons related to their instruction using use of a variety of a wide range of strategies,
technologies provided. interests and experiences. strategies, resources, and targeted strategies, resources, and
technologies matched to resources, and technologies that
their learning technologies to meet their successfully advance their
needs.9/20/21 individual students learning.
needs.5/8/22
I explain to students I allow students to
the distinction choose how they
between and want to present their
acceptance of both research for
home language and non-fiction writing.
academic language. I Some students
use a variety of choose a paper
technologies for brochure, some
daily instruction designed a video,
including google some made a poster.
Evidence classroom, google 5/8/22
slides, google docs,
and nearpod. I also
utilize visual,
auditory, kinesthetic,
and tactile strategies
for teaching the
English Language
Arts. 9/20/21
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.9/20/21 reflecting on multiple problems.
thinking though perspectives.5/8/22
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 reflect, and communicate
critical thinking in single problems of their own content.5/8/22 understandings based on
lessons or a sequence of related to the in depth analysis of
lessons. content.9/20/21 content learning.
I generally guide I give time for
discussions and pose students to digest
questions. I have new information and
students generate come up with
their own who, what, questions. For
when, where, why, example after we
and how questions in read a text, students
response to develop their own
literature.9/20/21 questions for
comprehension.
Evidence 5/8/22
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
checks for challenge. concepts flexibly and
Monitoring student understanding.9/20/21 effectively.
learning and 5/8/22 Students are able to
adjusting instruction Some students receive Students receive articulate their level of Students monitor their
while teaching. individual assistance assistance individually or understanding and use progress in learning and
during instruction. in small groups during teacher guidance to meet provide information to
instruction. Students successfully their needs during teacher that informs
participate and stay instruction.5/8/22 adjustments in
engaged in learning instruction.
activities.9/20/21
I walk amongst Students complete a
students as they thumb check (up,
work independently. I middle, or down) to
also frequently consider how well
conduct informal they understand the
assessments to gauge learning goal. One
student progress example of students
towards the using teacher
objective. I adjust my guidance is a student
instruction by asking using my think-aloud
a series of questions to comprehend the
Evidence to scaffold thinking, text. She said “I’m
use modeling, going to use the
connection to home subtitles to preview
knowledge , or what topics are on
concrete this page so I know if
examples.9/20/21 I’ll find my answer
here.” 5/8/22
With the exception of
absent days, all
students have scored
100% in their
participation grade.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Students follow
instructions
completely. Students
complete and submit
work in a timely
manner. Students
have expressed this is
their favorite class
and they are upset
when the class time
ends. 9/20/21