Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.1 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Models and Models fair and Reinforces positive, Develops shared Facilitates student communicates respectful behavior. responsible, and responsibility with self- reflection and expectations for fair Demonstrates respectful student students for resolving ongoing improvement and respectful commitment to interactions. Assists conflict and creating of the caring behavior to support fairness and respect in students to resolve and maintaining a community based on social communications with conflicts. caring classroom respect, fairness, and development.09-16-23 students about Incorporates cultural community. the value of all language and behavior. awareness to develop a Supports students in members. Promoting social Seeks to understand positive classroom taking leadership in Development and cultural perceptions of climate. developing a caring responsibility caring community that is within a caring community.04/01/24 Students demonstrate responsive to the Students take community where Some students share in efforts to be positive, diverse cultural norms leadership in resolving each student is responsibility for the Students participate in accepting, and of identities of all conflict and creating a treated fairly and classroom occasional community respectful of students. fair and respectful respectfully. community.04/01/24 building activities, differences. 09-16-23 classroom community designed to promote Students take where student’s home caring, fairness, and responsibility culture is included and respect. resolving conflicts and valued. Students maintaining a caring communicate with classroom community. empathy and Students promote understanding in respect and interactions with one appreciation for another. differences. Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning On the first day of Since the first day of Students share class, I told the school I model respectful opinions students what my fairness and respect to and demonstrate expectations were for all my students. positive attitudes the class and what I colleagues and toward classmates' expected them to do everyone at school. I opinions and thoughts. and behave in class respect my students 09-16-23 my main expectation and I communicate was respect for with them fairly and classmates, myself, respectfully no matter and to the class in the circumstances. I general as well as a always tell them to positive attitude respect each other's everyone's opinions likes, beliefs, culture, and thoughts about the and traditions because different topics that we we all deserved that will learn throughout respect. I respect my the school year. students in all aspects 09-16-23 and that is what I also Evidence want my students to My students share do. 04/01/24 their responsibility in class by taking ownership of their behavior and by respecting their classmates as well as respecting me all the time. My students signed a social contract where they sing that they will behave in class and that if they don't they know what are the consequences. My students know that they have to Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning participate in class and they even volunteer to share their answers or things about them depending on the warm-up or activity of the day. 04/01/24 Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning Element 2.2 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Is aware of the Experiments with Develops physical Maintains physical Adapts physical and/or importance of the and/or virtual learning environments that environments that environments flexibly physical and/or virtual environments that reflect student reflect student to facilitate access to a learning environments support student diversity and provide a diversity and provides wide range of that support student learning.04/01/24 range of resources for a broad range of resources that engage learning. 09-16-23 learning. resources, displays, students in learning. and artifacts that are Ensures that Is aware that Structures for Utilizes a variety of current and integral to environments enhance structured interaction interaction are taught structures for instruction. learning and reflect between students can in single lessons or interaction during diversity within and Creating physical support learning. sequence of lessons to learning activities that Integrates a variety of beyond the classroom. or virtual 09-16-23 support student ensures a focus on and structures for learning learning.04/01/24 completion of learning interaction that engage Selects from a environments tasks. students constructively repertoire of structures that promote and productively in for interaction to student learning, learning. ensure accelerated reflect diversity, learning for the full and encourage Some students use range of students. constructive and available resources in Students use resources Students use a variety Students routinely use productive learning environments provided in learning of resources in a range of resources in Students participate in interactions during instruction. environments and learning environments learning environments monitoring and among students 09-16-23 interact with each and interact in ways that relate to and changing the design of other to understand that deepen their enhance instruction learning environments and complete learning understanding of the and reflect their and structures for tasks in single lessons content and develop diversity. interactions. or sequence of constructive social and Students share in lessons.04/01/24 academic interactions. monitoring and assessment of interactions to improve effectiveness and develop a positive culture for learning. Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning I always try to do I am using a lot of physical movements to virtual learning represent actions, applications where my vocabulary, and students can practice emotion so the the terms we are students have a better covering in class. I understanding of what also use a lot of the words in the target physical movements to language mean and represent actions, they can remember vocabulary words and easily. I also like to emotions. I see that use a lot of support most of my students which is images where like to use the online the students can see resources to practice the representation of what we learn in class those words. I made because it is the students interact interactive and they with each other all the are computing with time because I each other which Evidence believed that students makes them excited. could learn more if In each of my lessons, they shared or asked I include an interaction questions between activity where my them as well as work students get to interact with partners to with each other daily support each other. and feel comfortable Students use all the with everyone that is resources that I in the classroom. I provide to support always like to create themselves throughout assignments that the activities. 09-16-23 include a speaking part where students have to ask questions to each other in Spanish and they have to answer each other in the target language. They like to interact with each Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning other because they feel comfortable to go and ask their friends questions. They also interact with each other using zoom where they have to record themselves in a conversation with each other. 04/01/24 Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning Element 2.3 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Adheres to policies Recognizes and Anticipates and Integrates support for Shares responsibility and laws regarding addresses safety issues reduces risks to students to take risks with the students for safety that are regarding materials, physical, intellectual, and offer respectful the establishment and required by the site, student interactions, and emotional safety opinions about maintenance of a safe district, and state. and the organization using multiple divergent viewpoints. physical, intellectual, Responds to behaviors of the learning strategies that include and emotional that impact student environments.04/01/2 examining biases in environment focused safety as they arise. 4 the learning on high quality and 09-16-23 environment and Engages in reflection rigorous learning. Establishing and curriculum. on their own language maintaining and behavior that learning Explores strategies to Models and provides contributes to environments that establish intellectual instruction on skills intellectual and are physically, and emotional safety that develop resiliency emotional safety in the intellectually, and in the and support classroom. emotionally safe classroom.04/01/24 intellectual and Students demonstrate emotional safety. resiliency in Students are aware of Students develop and perseverance for required safety Students follow practice resiliency academic procedures and the teacher guidance Students take risks, skills and strategies to achievement. school and classroom regarding potential offer opinions, and strive for academic Students maintain rationale for safety issues for self share alternative achievement, and intellectual and maintaining safety. or others.04/01/24 perspectives establish intellectual emotional safety for 09-16-23 and emotional safety themselves and others in the classroom. in the classroom. Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning I told the students the Students know that the safety policies to classroom needs to be avoid an incident a safe place to be and inside the classroom we all need to work such as no running together to keep it as a inside the class, no safe place. I explained pushing each other, no to them what a safe throwing items, etc. classroom is and what Also, I told them that things they have to do we have a safety to keep it safe. I told emotional policy them that we need to which is that we are respect everything and all the same and that everyone to make the inside the class we all classroom safe. When have the same rights they run in class or as well as I had told through things to each them that my other, I ask them if classroom is a safe what they are doing is classroom where they safe and depending on Evidence can share and ask for their answer, I ask help if they need it. I them what they should told them that I was do to make it safe. I here for them and to am always building a support them in safe interactive anything. environment because I Some students have am always telling opened themselves up them to respect each and shared with me other and talk with when they have respect to each other personal problems that so everyone feels safe are making them feel to share about them bad and I talk to them and things that are to support them as related to the well as give them the connected. As I option to go to their mentioned, students counselors for more follow my safety rules support. 09/16/23 and they know how to identify them. They Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning know what a safety c;lassroom should like and what they have to do to make it happen. 04/01/24
Element 2.4 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Focuses the rigor of Strives for a rigorous Develops a rigorous Integrates rigor Facilitates a rigorous the learning learning environment learning environment throughout the learning environment environment on that includes accuracy, that includes accuracy, learning environment in which students take accuracy of answers understanding, and the analysis, problem that values accuracy, leadership in learning. and completion of importance of meeting solving, and analysis, and critical Fosters extended learning tasks. targeted learning appropriate levels of reading, writing and studies, research, Is aware of the goals.04/01/24 challenge. thinking. analysis and importance of Holds high Integrates strategic purposeful use of maintaining high Works to maintain expectations for scaffolds and learning. Creating a expectations for high expectations for students. Has an technologies Supports students to rigorous learning students. students while understanding of throughout instruction utilize an extensive environment with becoming aware of achievement patterns, that support the full repertoire of high expectations achievement patterns and uses scaffolds to range of learners in differentiated and appropriate for individuals and address achievement meeting high strategies to meet high support for all groups of gaps. expectations for expectations. students students.04/01/24 achievement. Some students ask for Students engage in a Students take teacher support to variety of Students actively use responsibility to fully understand or Some individuals and differentiated supports supports and utilize teacher and complete learning groups of students and challenges in challenges to complete peer support, to tasks.09/16/23 work with the teacher ways that promote critical reading, achieve consistently to support accuracy their accuracy, writing, higher order high levels of factual and comprehension in analysis, and problem thinking, and problem and analytical their learning.04/01/24 solving in learning. solving across subject learning. matter. Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning I try to create my All my lessons focus lessons and on my students' explanation as simple learning needs so it as possible for the can be easy to students to have a understand everything better understanding that we need to learn. I of the content. I also use a lot of learning show examples all the resources throughout time or write things on my lesson to cover all the board that will be my students' learning. helpful for the My expectations are student's t completely always high and I understand the want my students to concepts. I am always achieve those establishing high expectations by expectations or my guiding them and students even though helping them get sometimes students there. I set my don’t see the students in groups of Evidence importance of learning four or partners and I a new language or try to include my completing the students with more assignments. All the struggles with my time, I am pushing high achievement them to do better and students so they can show me something help each other. I am more complex in their always pushing my assignments. 09/16/23 students more and more where they can I have a few students show me that they can in each class that I do more, such as start have to re-explain the talking more in the concept or the target language by instructions of the saying simple words. I activities because they work with a group of haven’t gotten it or students. I sir some of understand it my students in groups, completely. I try my specially the ones that Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning best to explain it to need more help, and them in different we work together on words so they can missing assignments have a better and even re-teaching a understanding and can lesson that they don't be able to complete understand. I also the activities. 09/16/23 have some students that volunteer to help other students that struggle in class. 04/01/24
Element 2.5 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Establishes Develops expectations Uses multiple Integrates equitable Facilitates a positive expectations, rules, with some student strategies including expectations, positive environment using and consequences for involvement. culturally responsive supports, and systems that ensure individual and group Communicates, instruction to develop consequences for students take an active behavior. 09-16-23 models and explains and maintain high individual and group role in monitoring and expectations for standards for behavior within and maintaining high individual and group individual and group across learning standards for behavior.04/01/24 behavior. activities. individual and group Developing, behaviors. communicating, Refers to standards for Reviews standards for Utilizes routine Guides and supports and maintaining behavior and applies behavior with students references to standards students to self-assess, high standards for consequences as in single lessons or for behavior prior and monitor, and set goals individual and needed. 09-16-23 sequence of lessons in during individual and for individual and group behavior anticipation of need group work. group behavior and for participation. reinforcement.04/01/2 4 Students follow Students respond to Students demonstrate Students are aware of behavior expectations, individual and group positive behavior, classroom rules and Students know accept consequences behaviors and consistent consequences. expectations for and increase positive encourage and support participation and are 09-16-23 behavior and behaviors. each other to make valued for their unique consequences and improvements. identities. respond to guidance in Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning following them.04/01/24
I explain the rules of I did a social contract
the classroom to the in my second semester students on the first where students day of school but participate to create a every day, I remind poster with the rules them about them, they need to follow in especially cellphone class and with the rules and cheating on expectations of the quizzes. course. I see that Students and parents students were are aware of the encouraged because I classroom rules and made them part of my even sign out a paper decisions (writing the to confirm that they rules of the read the rules and the classroom). After we consequences if they write the rules, I break them. 09/16/23 communicate the rules Evidence and expectations of the class to all my classes and even to parents so they see what it is expected from students. I create a slide where I review the standards with the students and how we will be putting everything together little by little as well as some changes that might occur depending on their learning and progress. My students know what I expect from Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning their behavior and the consequences if they misbehave in class. For consequences I follow the guidelines of the school so I am fair with everyone and all the classrooms have the same consequences so they are familiar with them. 04/01/24
Element 2.6 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Establishes Develops routines, Maintains regular use Engages students in Facilitates student procedures, routines procedures, and norms of routines and monitoring and participating in or norms for single in single lessons or procedures that are reflecting on routines, developing, lessons to support sequence of lessons culturally responsive procedures, and norms monitoring, and student learning. with some student and engage students in in ways that are adjusting routines and involvement.04/01/24 the development and culturally responsive. procedures focuses on Employing monitoring of norms. Maintains a quality maximizing learning. classroom learning climate that Classroom climate routines, builds on student integrates school procedures, Seeks to promote Provides positive strengths. standards and norms, and positive behaviors and behavior supports. culturally relevant supports for Responds to disruptive responds to disruptive Responds Promotes positive norms. positive behavior behavior. behavior.04/01/24 appropriately to behaviors and to ensure a climate behaviors in ways that consistently prevents Promotes positive in which all lessen disruptions to or refocuses behaviors behaviors and students can learn the learning climate. disruptive to the establishes Students participate in learning climate. preventions and a routines, procedures, positive classroom and norms and receive climate that eliminate reinforcement for most disruptive Students are aware of Students receive positive behaviors. behavior. procedures, routines, correction for Students are involved Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning and classroom norms. behavior that Students receive in assessment and interferes with timely and effective monitoring of learning, and positive feedback and routines, procedures, Students share reinforcement in consequences for and norms in ways responsibility with following routines, behaviors that that improve the teacher for managing procedures, and interfere with learning climate. and maintaining a norms.04/01/24 learning. positive classroom climate that promotes learning. I establish a classroom I establish a routine so routine, so the my students are students get used to familiar with the the same structure of routine of the the class. Also, they classroom and with know what they have how the classroom to do for each of the works. They are also activities that we familiar with the cover in the lesson slides and how the such as warm-ups. lessons or sequence of I always respond to lessons are created in disruptive behavior by my classroom as well reminding them of the as where to find them. rules and norms of the I involved them in the Evidence classroom. creation of those Students are aware of routines by adding fun the norms and routines stuff for each of them. of the classroom. I alay promote 09/16/23 positive behavior by making my students respect each other, the classroom and myself. I also take action on students' misbehavior or disruption by making them go outside and talk individually with them. I positively Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning reinforced the behavior of my students until I created a completely positive classroom where everyone has equal opportunities for learning without any interruption of incidents that might affect them. After I talk with the students I start seeing a more positive behavior and a better following of routines and norms in the class. 04/01/24
Element 2.7 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Paces instruction Paces instruction with Paces instruction with Paces instruction to Paces, adjusts, and based on curriculum some consideration of students to provide include ongoing fluidly facilitates guidelines. lesson type, adequate time for assessment of student instruction and daily Develops awareness adjustments for instruction, checking learning. Supports activities. of how transitions and sufficient student for understanding, students in the classroom work time and completion of monitoring of Using management impact transitions to optimize learning activities and instructional time. instructional time pacing and lessons. learning.04/01/24 closure. to optimize Students use their learning Some students Students participate instructional time to Students monitor their complete learning Students complete in and complete a engage in and complete own time, are engaged activities in time learning activities and, variety of learning learning activities and in accomplishing allotted. as needed, may activities in the time are prepared for the learning goals, and receive some allotted with options next sequence of participate in adjustments of time for extension and instruction. reflection, allotted for tasks or review. self-assessment, and expectations for goal setting. Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning completion.04/01/24
I am aware of how I always plan lessons
bad classroom thinking about what management impacts my students know and pacing and lessons how they process because I know that if information. I always I spend more time consider the trying to make the adjustment of my students pay attention, lessons and I always I will be behind in the think about the time lesson pacing. I think I that will take my don’t have a problem students to understand with classroom those concepts and put management, so I try them into practice. I my best to give the don't give homework students half of the to my students. They class to work on have to complete the activities and assignments in class. I assignments. assigned an activity Evidence Most of the students and it might be that complete their my expectation is that activities in class time. they finish completing 09/16/23 the assignment by the end of class and I might see that they need more time so if that is the case I let them know towards the end of the class that I will give them more time the next day of class. I adjust my assignments of what my students need and how they do in class time. 04/01/24 Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
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