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 Uses data from a variety Uses data from multiple Uses comprehensive
through data provided by learn about individual of formal and informal measures to make knowledge of students to
the school and/or students. sources to learn about adjustments to make ongoing
assessments. students and guide instruction and meet adjustments and
selection of instructional individual identified accommodations in
strategies to meet diverse learning instruction.
learning needs. needs.7/14/2023 10/22/20234/29/2024
Using knowledge of
students to engage Some students may Students engage in single Student engage in
them in learning engage in learning using lessons or sequence of learning through the use Students actively utilize a Students take ownership
instructional strategies lessons that include some of adjustments in variety of instructional of their learning by
focused on the class as a adjustments based on instruction to meet their strategies and choosing from a wide
whole. assessments. needs.7/14/2023 technologies in learning range of methods to
that ensure equitable further their learning that
access to the are responsive to their
curriculum.10/22/2023 learning
needs.4/29/2024
Evidence During our lessons, I As the educator, I utilize This school year, I have a
engage the students daily my data very well. I make wide variety of learners. I
by meeting their needs. sure to look at data from am constantly
For example, I build the previous year in the accommodating to their
relationships with my beginning of the school needs and adjusting our
students in the first few year to base my small lessons to fit the molds
weeks of school to get an groups off before I start that they all have. This
understanding of their my own data collection. allows my low learners to
likes, interests, hobbies, Throughout the first few have scaffolding and my
and levels of academics. weeks, I start collecting high learners to also
Then, I adjust my lesson data on each student to participate in the lesson
to meet their needs to find where they need the at a higher level of
focus on areas that they most support and any thinking. 10/22/2023
need more support with areas they might not
and enrich areas they are understand yet. Then, I I am in the innovating for
higher achievers in. While take this data and create both sections now. I allow
doing so, I teach the groups based on who students to choose from
lesson appropriately to needs what supports and options when learning
the whole group and then how to best meet their which provides them the
breakout into small needs at their level. appropriate
groups for the students to 7/14/2023 accommodations that
get retaught if necessary they need. 4/29/2024
or enriched if they are This school year, I have
ready for a challenge. made a shift in using
7/14/2023 more technology in our
every day routine. This
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
has supported my
student’s growth and
giving them the
opportunity to learn
accountability. I also like
how our programs are
designed to support the
individual at their level.
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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, Some students connect
backgrounds, life learning activities to their
experiences, and own lives.
interests
Evidence
Exploring
Uses gathered information
about students’ prior
knowledge, cultural
backgrounds, life
experiences, and interest to
support student learning.
Students participate in single
lessons or sequences of
lessons related to their
interests and experiences.
Applying
Uses school resources and
family contacts to expand
understanding of students’
prior knowledge, cultural
backgrounds, life
experiences, and interests to
connect to student
learning.7/14/2023
Students make connections
between curriculum, and
their prior knowledge,
backgrounds, life
experiences, and interests.
As the teacher, I connect
with both parents and
students throughout the
school year. It is very
important to me to have
parents on board with their
child’s learning and
understand their cultures to
support them. I also have
many opportunities for
parents to volunteer inside
the classroom to come share
their experiences with the
students. It is important to
create an environment that
is welcoming for all students
and parents/guardians to
feel comfortable to share
their values and beliefs.
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Integrating Innovating
Integrates broad knowledge Develops and systematically
of students and their uses extensive information
communities to inform regarding students’ cultural
backgrounds, prior knowledge,
instruction.
life experiences, and interests.
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Students are actively
engaged in curriculum, Students can articulate the
which relates their prior relevance and impact of lessons
knowledge, experiences, and on their lives and society.
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interests within and across
learning
activities.7/14/2023
Students are actively
engaged in curriculum,
which relates their prior
knowledge, experiences, and
interests within and across
learning
activities.10/22/2023
Student engagement is one Students are encouraged
of my top priorities while to share their own
teaching. It is vital to have backgrounds and
students participate and
embrace their cultures
engage in lessons for them to
fully grasp the content. I
inside my classroom. We
allow all student voice and celebrate all holidays and
choice to be heard cultures to share
throughout their time in my thoughts, ideas, beliefs,
classroom. They are and customs. 4/29/2024
welcome to share their
thoughts, beliefs, ideas,
comments, etc. throughout
our lessons and time
together. 7/14/2023
This year, one of my focuses
is creating relationships and
continuing to build them
every day with my students.
I want to incorporate as
much as I can and involve
their communities and
supports to give them a very
positive learning experience.
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I am still in this category for
student engagement as this
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
is something I am still
working on to get to the
integrating place. Student
voice and choice is well used
in my classroom, and I have
now incorporated more
technology in their daily
routines to voice their
opinions and give them the
opportunities to choose what
they want to learn first.
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Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.3 Emerging Exploring
Uses real-life connections Explore using additional
during instruction as real-life connections to
identified to curriculum. subject matter in single
lessons or sequence of
lessons to support
understanding.7/14/2023
Connecting subject
matter to
meaningful, real-life
contexts Some students relate Students make use of real-
subject matter to real-life. life connections provided
in single lessons or
sequence of lessons to
support understanding of
subject matter.
Evidence In my lessons, I try to
connect them to the real
world to help students
grasp concepts easier and
relate them to their own
worlds. While doing so, I
build student
relationships and find
their interests to relate on
their level of
understanding. Then, I
push them to a higher
level of thinking and guide
them through deeper level
questions to spark
interest in the content.
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Applying Integrating Innovating
Integrates connections Integrates connections to Engages student in
from subject matter to meaningful, real-life actively making
meaningful, real-life contexts in planning connections to relevant,
contexts, including those subject matter instruction meaningful, and real-life
specific to students’ and is responsive during contexts throughout
family and community. instruction to engage subject matter
10/22/2023 students in relating to instruction.
subject matter.
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Students routinely
Students utilize real-life Students actively engage integrate subject matter
connections regularly to in making and using real- into their own thinking
develop understandings life connections to subject and make relevant
of subject matter to extend their applications of subject
matter.7/14/2023 understanding. matter during learning
10/22/2023 activities. 4/29/2024
At my school, we learn This year I am utilizing This year has been
through project-based more technology that is very successful
learning. These projects supporting our learning
are meant to relate our with real-life connections.
integrating student
content to real world I am using BrainPop and involvement in their
situations and Nearpod to engage their own learning and
connections. Therefore, learning and connect our relating it to their
students are taught standards to a new own lives.
through real-life meaning for them.
connections daily in all 10/22/2023
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subject areas and are
given the opportunities to I have incorporated many
explore those connections new ideas on how to
deeper. For example, the connect student learning
second graders were to meaningful and real-
entrepreneur farmers for life contexts so they can
a PBL. They were given relate easier to why we
the tasks as farmers to learn certain things.
grow crops, create a 4/29/2024
farmers’ market and sell
goods to community
members to make a
profit. 7/14/2023
This year, I have
overviewed my new
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
meet students’ Some students participate
diverse learning in instructional strategies,
needs using resources and
technologies provided.
curriculum and have
found supplemental
materials to create an
environment that
connects our standards
and lessons to real world
context and meaning.
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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.4/29/2024
diverse learning needs. meet students’ diverse learning needs.
learning
needs.7/14/2023
Students participate in Students actively engage Students take
single lessons or Students participate in in instruction and make responsibilities for using
sequence of lessons instruction using use of a variety of a wide range of strategies,
related to their interests strategies, resources, and targeted strategies, resources, and
and experiences. technologies matched to resources, and technologies that
their learning needs. technologies to meet their successfully advance their
individual students learning.4/29/2024
needs.7/14/2023
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
As the teacher, I use a
variety of resources to
support student learning.
These resources include
technology, visual aids,
audio aids, diverse
literature, videos to
support learning,
music/songs to help
understand content, etc.
This allows the students
to grasp the content to
Evidence the best of their ability
while continuing to stay
engaged in the content.
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Fortunately, our school is My students have
1:1 devices. This allows used a wide variety
our students to utilize
their Chromebook daily
of resources to learn
to enrich their brains this school year. They
with more knowledge and also have been very
research. We utilize the successful with using
Chromebooks daily to their devices more to
support their academic
subject learning as well as
research topics and
research interests and educate themselves
continue their learning. about certain content
For example, students we are learning.
who finish independent 4/29/2024
work for math may go
onto our math curriculum
online programs to
continue enriching their
learning. For PBL, we
research many topics to
support student
understanding.
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Element 1.5 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

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
critically.7/14/2023
Promoting critical
thinking though
inquiry, problem
Some students respond to Students respond to
solving, and
questions regarding facts varied questions or tasks
reflection
and comprehension. designed to promote
comprehension and
critical thinking in single
lessons or a sequence of
lessons.7/14/2023
Evidence As the teacher, I find it
Guide students to think
critically through use of
questioning strategies,
posing/solving problems,
and reflection on issues in
content. 10/22/2023
Students respond to
questions and problems
posed by the teacher and
begin to pose and solve
problems of their own
related to the content.
10/22/2023
As a fourth year teacher, I
Supports students to
initiate critical thinking
through independently
developing questions,
posing problems and
reflecting on multiple
perspectives.4/29/2024
Students pose problems
and construct questions
of their own to support
inquiries into
content.4/29/2024
At the end of this
Facilitates systematic
opportunities for student
to apply critical thinking
by designing structured
inquiries into complex
problems.
Students pose and
answer a wide-range of
complex questions and
problems, reflect, and
communicate
understandings based on
in depth analysis of
content learning.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
important to pose
questions and support
student engagement
through asking them
open ended questions. It
allows them to think
critically and create their
own questions they may
have. I think I can
improve on this aspect by
guiding the students into
the questions rather than
asking them myself. This
is one thing I am looking
forward to learning
throughout this course.
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Knowing this, I find
myself having the
students be in the same
category because it is an
area that I am continuing
to grow in. 7/14/2023
Element 1.6 Emerging Exploring
Implements lessons Seeks to clarify
following curriculum instruction and learning
guidelines. activities to support
student understanding.
Monitoring student
learning and
adjusting instruction
while teaching. Some students receive Students receive
individual assistance assistance individually or
during instruction. in small groups during
instruction.
have really shifted gears year, I feel confident
into supporting my that I have taught my
students with guiding
them to think critically
students ow to
and problem solve while critically think
learning. I also am asking through different
the students multiple scenarios and
questions that have them situations that come
think outside of the box
and start to use these
unexpectedly at us
skills outside the sometimes.
classroom such as during 4/29/2024
recess and in the
community. 10/22/2023
Applying Integrating Innovating
Makes ongoing Adjusts strategies during Makes adjustments to
adjustments to instruction instruction based on the extend learning
based on observation of ongoing monitoring of opportunities and
student engagement and individual student needs provide assistance to
regular checks for for assistance, support, or students in mastering the
understanding.7/14/2023 challenge. 10/22/2023 concepts flexibly and
effectively.4/29/2024
Students successfully Students are able to Students monitor their
participate and stay articulate their level of progress in learning and
engaged in learning understanding and use provide information to
activities.7/14/2023 teacher guidance to meet teacher that informs
their needs during adjustments in
instruction. 10/22/2023 instruction.4/29/2024
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
As the teacher, it is my
responsibility to
continuously check for
understanding and adapt my
lessons to the needs of the
students. When I see
students becoming
disengaged, I change the
momentum of the lesson to
help bring them back to the
learning environment.
Sometimes it is a whole
group change in scenery,
while sometimes it is just a
small change for one or two
Evidence students who need
refocusing. 7/14/2023
With a new school year, After students finish
came new curriculum.
their work, I have a
This curriculum has
forced me to support my
“boredom” chart that
students with monitoring they can use. It
their needs and allows then to pick a
supporting them with letter to complete the
necessary task at hand. Fun
accommodations.
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packets, reading a
book, flashcards,
drawing, etc.
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Knowing this, student

engagement in the activities
to the bet of their abilities.
When students become
disengaged, I take the
responsibility to change the
momentum and help them
refocus into the lessons by
giving them another task or
movement to help their
brains engage again.
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