Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.1 Emerging Exploring
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. 7/16/21
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Adjustments made include
grouping students of
various levels for group
work, use of Spanish and
English Vocabulary.
Practices aren’t always
consistent through lessons.
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assessments are still
adjusted on teh basis of
single lessons, not entire
lessons or units. 12/7/21
Evidence
Applying
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. 7/16/21
Student engage in learning
through the use of
adjustments in instruction
to meet their needs.
Take time to talk with
students about their own
lives and what’s happening
in the world. invite
students to ask questions
about the school and
challenge their own
learning expectations to
figure out what works best
for them. 7/16/21
Integrating Innovating
Uses data from multiple Uses comprehensive
measures to make knowledge of students to
adjustments to instruction make ongoing
and meet individual adjustments and
identified learning needs. accommodations in
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Students actively utilize a Students take ownership
variety of instructional of their learning by
strategies and choosing from a wide
technologies in learning range of methods to
that ensure equitable further their learning that
access to the curriculum. are responsive to their
Updated 5/4/22 learning needs.
Using Data from Sped
teachers/ELL teachers to
adjust lessons to meet
needs of applicable
students 12/7/21
With more technology and
teaching strategies at my
disposal, I am better able
to tailor my lessons to
meet individual needs to
make lessons more
equitable. 5/4/22
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 Integrating Innovating
Uses gathered Uses school resources and Integrates broad Develops and
information about family contacts to expand knowledge of students systematically uses
students’ prior understanding of and their communities to extensive information
knowledge, cultural students’ prior inform instruction. regarding students’
backgrounds, life knowledge, cultural 12/7/21 cultural backgrounds,
experiences, and interest backgrounds, life prior knowledge, life
to support student experiences, and interests experiences, and
learning. to connect to student interests.5/4/22
learning.7/16/21
Students participate in Students make Students can articulate
single lessons or connections between Students are actively the relevance and impact
sequences of lessons curriculum, and their engaged in curriculum, of lessons on their lives
related to their interests prior knowledge, which relates their prior and society.
and experiences.7/16/21 backgrounds, life knowledge, experiences,
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interests. across learning
activities.5/4/22
Students are polled early I speak with other Using counselor after connecting
on about life experiences, teachers at grade level to resources like more with students
adjusts lessons when learn what students are
experiences align with doing in other courses,
translation team to outside of subject
curriculum. 7/16/21 particularly when it help connect with area, I have learned a
Students complete comes to cultural parents 12/7/21 lot about their
lessons in sequential experiences and cultural upbringings
order based on unit work incorporate it into Thanks to increased and incorporated it
12/7/21 lessons. 7/16/21
contact with teachers into lessons. 5/4/22
outside my dept, I
have better been able
to incorporate
learning from other
classes into my
teaching. 5/4/22
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.3 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating
Uses real-life connections Explore using additional Integrates connections Integrates connections to
during instruction as real-life connections to from subject matter to meaningful, real-life
identified to curriculum. subject matter in single meaningful, real-life contexts in planning
lessons or sequence of contexts, including those subject matter instruction
lessons to support specific to students’ and is responsive during
understanding. family and community. instruction to engage
students in relating to
Connecting subject
subject matter.7/16/21
matter to
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meaningful, real-life
Some students relate Students make use of Students utilize real-life
contexts
subject matter to real-life. real-life connections connections regularly to Students actively engage
provided in single lessons develop understandings in making and using
or sequence of lessons to of subject matter. real-life connections to
support understanding of subject matter to extend
subject matter. their
understanding.7/16/21
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Students are much more
engaged when we
practice skills that relate
to real world careers or
experiences. I plan a
majority of labs &
projects around what
kind of career would
practice the associated
skill. Students find labs
and projects much more
fulfilling and engaging
Evidence when they understand
how a skill is used in the
“real world” 7/16/21
Students still connect
most with real-wrold
situations and examples,
trying to relate their
experiences to what they
learn in class 12/7/21
Innovating
Engages student in
actively making
connections to relevant,
meaningful, and real-life
contexts throughout
subject matter
instruction.
Students routinely
integrate subject matter
into their own thinking
and make relevant
applications of subject
matter during learning
activities.5/4/22
through using
material taught in
other classes,
students can both
practice skills
learned outside my
class in other classes,
and then apply other
skills to my class.
Students have been
challenged more and
more to integrate
outside learning
through inquiry
based learning
5/4/22
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.4 Emerging
Uses instructional
strategies, resources, and
technologies as provided
by school and/or district.
Using a variety of
instructional
strategies, resources,
and technologies to
Some students participate
meet students’
in instructional strategies,
diverse learning
using resources and
needs
technologies provided.
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.7/16/21
learning needs. 12/7/215/4/22
Students participate in Students participate in Students take
single lessons or instruction using Students actively engage responsibilities for using
sequence of lessons strategies, resources, and in instruction and make a wide range of strategies,
related to their interests technologies matched to use of a variety of resources, and
and experiences.7/16/21 their learning needs. targeted strategies, technologies that
12/7/21 resources, and successfully advance their
technologies to meet their learning.
individual students
needs.5/4/22
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
A large majority of my
students have not had
many experiences with
technology and scientific
tools, so many struggle to
grasp concepts
connecting to things they
haven’t seen. 7/16/21
Evidence
Element 1.5 Emerging Exploring
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.7/16/21
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.7/16/21
Students learn a skill
that they use for a
prolonged period of
time, through a unit
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Applying
Guide students to think
critically through use of
questioning strategies,
posing/solving problems,
and reflection on issues in
content. 12/7/215/4/22
Students respond to
questions and problems
posed by the teacher and
begin to pose and solve
problems of their own
related to the
content.12/7/215/4/22
All students have access
to chromebooks, and the
science department has a
wide range of equipment
that I utilize for
demonstrations, labs, and
projects. My lessons
promote real-life skills
and technology
literacy.7/16/21
Students now utilize
technology outside of
chromebooks more often,
like chemical testing and
using more diverse
equipment and specimens
to observe. 12/7/21
After learning about more
teaching resources and
strategies, I have been
able to engage students in
new more challenging
ways. 5/4/22
Integrating Innovating
Supports students to Facilitates systematic
initiate critical thinking opportunities for student
through independently to apply critical thinking
developing questions, by designing structured
posing problems and inquiries into complex
reflecting on multiple problems.
perspectives.
Students pose problems Students pose and answer
and construct questions a wide-range of complex
of their own to support questions and problems,
inquiries into content. reflect, and communicate
understandings based on
in depth analysis of
content learning.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Most in-class assignments
are very cut and dry recall
and understanding type
assignments. Labs and
projects are where I try to
get more critical thinking,
but I don’t think I have
great strategies to
encourage more of it.
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Evidence
Element 1.6 Emerging Exploring
Implements lessons Seeks to clarify
following curriculum instruction and learning
guidelines. activities to support
student
understanding.7/16/21
Monitoring student
learning and
adjusting instruction
while teaching. Some students receive
individual assistance Students receive
during instruction. assistance individually or
in small groups during
instruction.
Students are given more
open-ended
investigationg type units
and assignments where
they can practice critical
thinking skills. Students
use strategies and
thinking styles taught in
class and apply them to a
variety of problems.
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Students are sill being
challenged with similar
critical thinking
questions. 5/4/22
Applying Integrating Innovating
Makes ongoing Adjusts strategies during Makes adjustments to
adjustments to instruction based on the extend learning
instruction based on ongoing monitoring of opportunities and
observation of student individual student needs provide assistance to
engagement and regular for assistance, support, or students in mastering the
checks for understanding. challenge. concepts flexibly and
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Students are able to Students monitor their
Students successfully articulate their level of progress in learning and
participate and stay understanding and use provide information to
engaged in learning teacher guidance to meet teacher that informs
activities7/16/21.12/7/2 their needs during adjustments in
1 instruction.5/4/22 instruction.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
While I teach a concept, I
still struggle to effectively
check for understanding
and scaffold a topic when
necessary. 7/16/21
Evidence
I am able to keep many This has mostly just come
students engaged in a with experience, but I’ve
lesson, but I don’t always been adapting on the fly
find that they retain more easily than I have in
knowledge and take it to past years.
subsequent lessons for
further application. I have found new ways to
7/16/21 help students express
their level of
Better as assessing understanding within an
student learning based on assessment or general
student work. 12/7/21 assignment, leading to
better progress
Student stay engaged monitoring. 5/4/22
through constant
assessment and
practicing real world
skills 12/7/21