STANDARD 1 – Understanding and I planned lessons for multicultural and

Addressing Each Child’s Developmental and different developmental stages. I planned

Learning Needs Candidates use their lessons and activities that helped students learn
understanding of child growth and a variety of cultural and developmental stages
development, individual differences, and and life styles. Below you will find my
diverse families, cultures and communities to competency on “Developmentally Appropriate
plan and implement inclusive learning Instructions”:
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 I am able to use my abilities to learn the

Content and Curricular Knowledge for content and create a learning environment that
Teaching Candidates demonstrate and apply meets standards across the curriculum. Below
understandings of major concepts, skills, and you will find some lessons that exhibit my
practices, as they interpret disciplinary content knowledge for high quality instruction:
curricular standards and related expectations
within and across literacy, mathematics,
science, and social studies.

STANDARD 3 – Assessing, Planning, and I was able to create and use a wide variety of
Designing Contexts for Learning Candidates lessons and assessments in my student
assess students, plan instruction and design teaching. These lessons meet my students
classroom contexts for learning. Candidates needs and I remediated where necessary. An
use formative and summative assessment to example of my prep and assessment data can
monitor students’ learning and guide be found below:
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 emotional development.

Standard 4 – Supporting Each Child’s Based on remediation and assessment, I am

Learning Using Effective Instruction. able to support each childs learning needs and
Candidates make informed decisions about make effective decisions, lessons, and
instruction guided by knowledge of children instruction based upon. I am able to take
and assessment of children’s learning that feedback from the students and put it into an
result in the use of a variety of effective effective lesson to meet needs of all learners.
instructional practices that employ print, and Below, you will find an example of my
digital appropriate resources. Instruction is planning based on assessment data:
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 I am able and was able to communicate and

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.
collaborate effectively with students, parents,
and fellow colleagues during my experiences.
I wrote news letters and emails every week. I
also attended weekly PLC meetings to
collaborate with my colleagues. A few
examples of how I communicated and
collaborated with others can be found below: