Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.1 Emerging Exploring Applying
Learns about students Gathers additional data to Uses data from a variety
through data provided by learn about individual of formal and informal
the school and/or students. sources to learn about
assessments. students and guide
selection of instructional
strategies to meet diverse
learning needs.10/1/17
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
instructional strategies lessons that include some of adjustments in
focused on the class as a adjustments based on instruction to meet their
whole. assessments. needs. 10/1/17
Teacher View:
I believe that I fit into this
criteria in my current
classroom. At multiple
points in the year we
have “roundtables” with
the specific aim to
identify students within
my classroom that need
various opportunities for
access and modification
throughout a lesson (i.e.
Evidence EL, Special Needs).
Constant communication
within these programs
also provide specific way
to address student needs
in the most proficient
way possible.
Student View:
I provide students with
multiple avenues to
assess their knowledge in
different ways
Integrating Innovating
Uses data from multiple Uses comprehensive
measures to make knowledge of students to
adjustments to make ongoing
instruction and meet adjustments and
individual identified accommodations in
learning needs. instruction.
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 are responsive to their
curriculum.5/10/18& learning needs.
12/10/18 & 5/10/19
Teacher View:
I have made cognizant
strides to incorporate
various modes of learning
within my classroom
during the second
semester. I've utilized the
data from each of these
various modes of the
assessment to make the
appropriate adjustments
to meet the needs of all
learning within my
classroom.
Student View:
Students have the
opportunity with in my
classroom during the
second semester to
explore and demonstrate
their understanding
through various
modalities. Utilizing
technology is one of the
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
throughout the unit. This
is accomplished through
project based learning,
presentations, as well as
through other tech -
driven learning activities.
This provides students at
all levels to appropriately
gain traction and
momentum throughout a
unit in ways that are
more engaging than that
of traditional formal
summative and formative
assessments.
cornerstones of my
second semester progress
and students have
become familiar and
comfortable with the
daily use of these tools
within the classroom.
I continue to push myself
in better understanding
how to best address the
needs of students within
my classroom. I want to
always stay up to date
with current views of
educational approaches
and mindsets to increase
the quality of learning
experiences for my
students.
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 cultural backgrounds,
experiences, and interest backgrounds, life prior knowledge, life
to support student experiences, and interests experiences, and
learning. 10/1/17 & to connect to student interests.
5/10/18 learning. 12/10/18
Students make Students are actively Students can articulate
Students participate in connections between engaged in curriculum, the relevance and impact
single lessons or curriculum, and their which relates their prior of lessons on their lives
sequences of lessons prior knowledge, knowledge, experiences, and society.
related to their interests backgrounds, life and interests within and
and experiences. experiences, and across learning activities
interests. 10/1/17 5/10/18 &12/10/19.
Communication Throughout the past I have made positive
among department couple of years, my strides to creating an
members within our department has made atmosphere within
curriculum team as it a point to stress the my classroom and
well as outside our importance of which students are
department provide maintaining a proactively engaged
input about students GROWTH MINDSET in their own learning
achievement levels throughout our and create
and past experiences student population. meaningful
as requested on a Every Monday, experiences,
case by case basis. I students engage in connections, and
also make it a point activities in which deeper
to look over past they have the understanding
class grades in order opportunity to create through the various
to appropriately goals and explore means of content
address any gaps in their individual acquisition.
learning that a learning paths as
student might be dictated by their
coming in with. This previous experiences,
also extends into learning levels, and
other environmental backgrounds.
factors that might
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
affect classroom I have made a
behavior and concerted effort to
achievement. increase my
knowledge of the
I continue to try and student population in
utilize as many order to better
resources as possible address their needs
in order to address and pre-dispositions
students prior within the classroom.
learning backgrounds This allows me to
life experiences and become more
interest to not only connected to the
increase student students which in
engagement but to turn allow for better
make learning engagement
meaningful throughout a unit of
throughout the year. study.
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. 5/10/18 family and instruction to engage subject matter
Connecting subject community.12/10/18 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 real- integrate subject matter
provided in single lessons connections regularly to life connections to subject into their own thinking
or sequence of lessons to develop understandings matter to extend their and make relevant
support understanding of of subject matter. understanding.5/10/19 applications of subject
subject matter. 10/1/17 & 5/10/18 matter during learning
&12/10/18 activities.
Project based For each lesson, I I have made a
learning has always always try to provide concerted push
been a part of my real life connections toward more PBL
planning mindset. I for what we had types of learning
try to provide learned for that day. experiences for my
projects that not only It is often utilized as students that have
create opportunities the “hook” for a more meaningful
for students to lesson that sets the real-world
display their tone for engagement applications than the
knowledge but also as well as a source of traditional types of
apply to real- life constant reference modalities that have
Evidence scenarios. This throughout a unit of previously existed
allows students to study. within my classroom.
create importance in
content material that Students continue to
would otherwise be make real life
missed in more connections to
traditional teaching various problems
modalities. presented to them
throughout a lesson.
Although I continue
to utilize project- I have made more of
based learning with an effort to create
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.
in my classroom it is problem and project
clear that much based learning
growth can be made experiences for
and incorporating students that apply
these projects on a to real-life situations
more continuous in more ways than in
basis throughout the just the classroom.
year. Research can be
done with regards to
making meaningful
projects that connect
concepts from unit to
unit.
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.12/10/18
learning needs. 10/1/17
& 5/10/18
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
10/1/17 individual students needs learning.
5/10/19.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Teacher View: Throughout the
second semester I
Technology has been have facilitated
a large push in my students and
school site since we becoming active
have gone 1-to-1 participants within
with chromebooks my classroom
over the past couple through means of
of years. We are progress monitoring
provided with and goal setting. This
various opportunities has provided them a
to explore different way to become more
educational actively engaged in
technology units of study
approaches through throughout the year.
professional
development as well I have made a more
as access to proactive effort in
Evidence technology creating meaningful
conferences opportunities for
throughout the year. students to remain
This provides us with engaged in content
ongoing discussion through the
and create in the real utilization of various
of integrating technologies within
technology within the classroom both
our classrooms. interactive and
exploratory in
Student View: nature.

One of the primary

ways in which we
utilize adaptive
technology within my
classroom is the
implementation of a
program called
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
ALEKS. This program
creates an
individualized
learning plan for the
students and meets
them at their level of
understanding within
the curriculum.
Hence, students can
master content on
their own terms.

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. 10/1/17
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. 10/1/17
Guide students to think
critically through use of
questioning strategies,
posing/solving problems,
and reflection on issues in
content.
Students respond to
questions and problems
posed by the teacher and
begin to pose and solve
problems of their own
related to the content.
5/10/18 &12/10/18
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.12/10/19
Students pose problems Students pose and
and construct questions answer a wide-range of
of their own to support complex questions and
inquiries into content. problems, reflect, and
communicate
understandings based on
in depth analysis of
content learning.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Teacher View: Throughout the I have made a more
second semester I concerted effort in
My lesson synthesis provided means for incorporating higher-
always begins with a students to think level questioning
warm-up in which critically through techniques as well as
students need to various questioning opportunities to
access previous methods as well as explore content area
knowledge from different settings in knowledge in deeper
prior lessons. Also, which questions are and more meaningful
questions are posed posed in an open- ways through
as exit tickets as well ended way. project-based
as intermittent Moreover, students learning.
discussion questions have become more
to promote active participants
collaboration among within the classroom
the students as well which has created in
as the use of them the confidence
appropriate to pose their own
Evidence academic language open ended
within the unit of questions and
study. learning experiences
throughout the unit.

Student View:

As stated above,
opportunities for
students to answer
questions that
activate their critical
thinking is an
essential part to most
of the lessons that a
create within a unit
of study. Moreover, it
is a norm of my class
that discussion is a
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
part of learning and
that students are
expected to talk
about content with
others in the class.

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 understanding. challenge. concepts flexibly and
Monitoring student
10/1/17 &12/10/18 effectively.
learning and
adjusting instruction
Some students receive Students receive Students are able to Students monitor their
while teaching.
individual assistance assistance individually or Students successfully articulate their level of progress in learning and
during instruction. in small groups during participate and stay understanding and use provide information to
instruction. engaged in learning teacher guidance to meet teacher that informs
activities. 10/1/17 & their needs during adjustments in
5/10/18&12/10/18 & instruction. instruction.
5/10/19
Teacher View:

I utilize a presentation
tool called PEARDECK
throughout many of my
lessons. This provides a
way not only to hold
students accountable
throughout a lesson, but a
Evidence way to engage them in
asking questions that
they answer on the spot
with their individual
devices. This affords me
numerous opportunities
to gauge student learning
and understanding and
appropriately adjust
subsequent focus or
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
discussion.
Student View:

As stated above, the use

of interactive
presentation tools creates
a higher degree of
accountability within my
classroom. I monitor
student engagement
through their
participation in real-time
questions and prompts
that I embed with the
technology. Moreover,
random calling as well as
circulation also provide
means to maintain
engagement throughout
my lessons.

Continued strides to
monitor student learning
as well as adjusting
instruction is an area in
which improvement can
be made within my own
teaching approach.
however by focusing on
creating a more active
learner within the
classroom the monitoring
of student learning begins
to shift into the hands of
the students.