STANDARD 1 – Understanding and
Addressing Each Child’s Developmental and
Learning Needs
Candidates use their understanding of child
growth and development, individual
differences, and diverse families, cultures
and communities to plan and implement
inclusive learning environments that provide
each child with equitable access to high
quality learning experiences that engage and
create learning opportunities for them to
meet high standards. They work
collaboratively with families to gain a holistic
perspective on children’s strengths and
needs and how to motivate their learning.
STANDARD 2 – Understanding and Applying
Content and Curricular Knowledge for
Teaching
Candidates demonstrate and apply
understandings of major concepts, skills, and
practices, as they interpret disciplinary
curricular standards and related expectations
within and across literacy, mathematics,
science, and social studies
STANDARD 3 – Assessing, Planning, and
Designing Contexts for Learning
Candidates assess students, plan instruction
and design classroom contexts for learning.
Candidates use formative and summative
assessment to monitor students’ learning
and guide instruction. Candidates plan
learning activities to promote a full range of
competencies for each student. They
differentiate instructional materials and
activities to address learners’ diversity.
Candidates foster engagement in learning by
establishing and maintaining social norms for
classrooms. They build interpersonal
relationships with students that generate
motivation, and promote students social and
In education, it is important to meet every
student where they are and to push them to
reach their full potential. I had the
opportunity to create lesson plans that met
each student where they were and to push
them to do the harder things that they are
capable of. This can be seen in my Measuring
Length Lesson and my February Guided
Reading Plan.
It is important for students to see that the
different subjects that they are learning are
not taught in isolation, but that they all
connect. Therefore, integrating multiple
subjects is important as this allows students
to make connections. I integrated multiple
subjects in my lesson plans as this allowed
students to make connections. I also
integrated technology so that students would
be able to see how that relates to content.
This can be seen in my Physical and
Behavioral Adaptations Lesson.
Data driven instruction and differentiated
learned are essential in the classroom. In my
lesson planning, I had the opportunity to use
data in order to plan the most effective
lessons for my students and I was also able to
differentiate my lesson in order to meet
students where they are. An example of my
data driven instruction can be seen in my
Data Project. Also, an example of my
differentiated learning can be seen in my
Measuring Length and February Guided
Reading Lessons.
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Standard 4 – Supporting Each Child’s To foster student learning, it is important to

Learning Using Effective Instruction. use a variety of instructional practices to
Candidates make informed decisions about meet their needs. This means allowing
instruction guided by knowledge of children students to learn from their peers and from
and assessment of children’s learning that learning in small groups to provide more one
result in the use of a variety of effective on one attention. These characteristics can
instructional practices that employ print, and be seen in my Polygon, Measuring Length,
digital appropriate resources. Instruction is and You are Special lessons.
delivered using a cohesive sequence of
lessons and employing effective instructional
practices. Candidates use explicit instruction
and effective feedback as appropriate, and
use whole class discussions to support and
enhance children’s learning. Candidates use
flexible grouping arrangements, including
small group and individual instruction to
support effective instruction and improved
learning for every child.

STANDARD 5- Developing as a Professional As an educator, it is important to receive

Candidates promote learning and
development of every child through
participation in collaborative learning
environments, reflective self-study and
professional learning, and involvement in
their professional community.
feedback on one’s teaching. This can be seen
in my evaluations. I considered my
cooperating teachers, school administrators,
and university supervisor’s feedback and
sought to improve so that I could be the best
teacher for my students.