This document summarizes the six elements of the CSTP (California Standards for the Teaching Profession) standard on developing as a professional educator. Each element has five levels of performance: Emerging, Exploring, Applying, Integrating, and Innovating.
For element 6.1 on reflecting on teaching practice, the document describes engaging in informal reflection, adjusting lessons based on reflection, and collaborating with colleagues. For element 6.2 on establishing professional goals, it discusses setting goals connected to required processes, expanding knowledge individually and with colleagues, and selecting professional development based on identified needs. The highest levels integrate ongoing reflection individually and with colleagues, set authentic and challenging goals, and engage in contributing to the
This document summarizes the six elements of the CSTP (California Standards for the Teaching Profession) standard on developing as a professional educator. Each element has five levels of performance: Emerging, Exploring, Applying, Integrating, and Innovating.
For element 6.1 on reflecting on teaching practice, the document describes engaging in informal reflection, adjusting lessons based on reflection, and collaborating with colleagues. For element 6.2 on establishing professional goals, it discusses setting goals connected to required processes, expanding knowledge individually and with colleagues, and selecting professional development based on identified needs. The highest levels integrate ongoing reflection individually and with colleagues, set authentic and challenging goals, and engage in contributing to the
This document summarizes the six elements of the CSTP (California Standards for the Teaching Profession) standard on developing as a professional educator. Each element has five levels of performance: Emerging, Exploring, Applying, Integrating, and Innovating.
For element 6.1 on reflecting on teaching practice, the document describes engaging in informal reflection, adjusting lessons based on reflection, and collaborating with colleagues. For element 6.2 on establishing professional goals, it discusses setting goals connected to required processes, expanding knowledge individually and with colleagues, and selecting professional development based on identified needs. The highest levels integrate ongoing reflection individually and with colleagues, set authentic and challenging goals, and engage in contributing to the
Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
6.1 Reflecting on Is aware of the need to Begins to engage in Engages in reflection Reflects individually Maintains ongoing teaching practice in reflect on teaching reflection on teaching individually and with and with colleagues on reflective practice and support of student practice to support practice individually colleagues on the refinements in teaching action research in learning student learning. and with colleagues relationship between practice and supporting student Reflects individually or that is focused on making adjustments in connections among the learning and raising with colleagues on methods to support teaching practice and elements of the CSTP to the level of academic immediate student the full range of impact on the full positively impact the achievement. learning needs. learners. (09/24/19) range of learners. full range of learners. (04/27/20) (12/11/21) Engages in and fosters reflection among colleagues for school wide impact on student learning. (04/30/22) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating I do an informal I am constantly reflecting I continually reflect I maintain ongoing reflection daily, asking on how I can improve my individually and with reflective practice and myself whether students teaching practice and colleagues on action research in were engaged, whether how I can change my refinements in my supporting student learning goals were lesson to improve teaching practice. I learning through my ILP achieved, what student learning. As a regularly reflect with from my induction prerequisite skills were result, with each period colleagues through my program through they lacking, and how I that I teach, I am PLC meetings on how I CalState Fullerton, my could better support my adjusting my lesson can improve my teaching POP cycles, my CSTP self- students. Once a week, I based on my reflection practice to positively assessment reflections, do a reflection in my after each class. I also impact the full range of my technology self- lesson plan book to reflect with my content learners. In the mentor assessment, and my adjust instruction and to team weekly to see how conversations as part of teacher leadership self- explore new strategies we can adjust our the FOTIP program, I reflections. and techniques for instruction to help all regularly reflect with my subsequent lessons. I students. I also reflect colleagues and my mento I also engage in and also collaborate with with the district teacher on how to foster reflection among colleagues in my content curriculum team several improve my teaching colleagues for school team weekly on how as a times a semester to share practice and the wide impact on student team we can better teaching practices and connection with the CSTP learning through my support our students’ improve student elements. (12/11/21) weekly PLC meetings, my learning. (09/24/19) instruction. (04/27/20) Teacher Leader Project on supporting struggling students, and in participating in the WASC accreditation process with my school. (04/30/22) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating 6.2 Establishing Develops goals Sets goals connected to Sets goals connected to Sets and modifies Sets and modifies a professional goals connected to the CSTP the CSTP that take into the CSTP that are authentic goals broad range of and engaging in through required account self- authentic, challenging, connected to the CSTP professional goals continuous and processes and local assessment of teaching and based on self- that are intellectually connected to the CSTP protocols. practice. (09/24/19) assessment. challenging and based to improve purposeful on self-assessment and instructional practice professional Attends required Expands knowledge Aligns personal goals feedback from a variety and impact student growth and professional and skills individually with school and of sources. (12/11/21) learning within and development development. and with colleagues district goals, and beyond the classroom. through available focuses on improving Engages in and professional student learning. contributes to Engages in ongoing development. (04/27/20) professional inquiry into teacher development targeted practice for Selects and engages in on student professional professional achievement. Pursues a development. development based on variety of additional needs identified in opportunities to learn Contributes to professional goals. professionally. professional (09/24/19) (12/11/21) organizations, and (04/27/20) development opportunities to extend own teaching practice. (04/30/22) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating I want to improve in my Based on the CSTP self- In my ILP, I reflect on my I set and modify a broad “emerging” and assessment, I chose some teaching practice and range of professional “exploring” aspects of the of my weaker areas for create authentic goals for goals connected to the CSTP, specifically in my ILP. I am also reading myself that are connected CSTP to improve differentiated instruction articles and engaging in to the CSTP. In my ILP, I instructional practice and using knowledge of discussions with self-assess and receive and impact student students to guide colleagues on how to feedback from colleagues learning as seen on my instruction. (09/24/19) improve in these areas. I as well as looking at the Teacher Leadership page meet with my school and professional writings of for my Induction district content team to other educators and program. discuss goals to improve researchers (12/11/21) student learning. The I also engage in ongoing school and district also inquiry into teacher allows us to choose practice for professional professional development through my development ILP and my Teacher opportunities based on Leader Project for my areas of interest and induction program. need. (04/27/20) (04/30/22)
I have a great interest in
AVID and AVID strategies and requested to go to the AVID Summer Institute this past year. I also have an interest in technology and hope that I can go to the CUE conference in the near future. I am also currently representing my school in the district’s content team and am attending professional development to better improve my skills in leadership in this professional area. (09/24/19) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating 6.3 Collaborating Attends staff, grade Consults with Collaborates with Collaborates with Facilitates with colleagues and level, department, and colleagues to consider colleagues to improve colleagues to expand collaboration with the broader other required how best to support student learning and impact on teacher and colleagues. professional meetings and teacher and student reflect on teaching student learning within collaborations. learning. practice at the grade or department Works to ensure the community to classroom level. and school and district broadest positive support teacher Identifies student and Begins to identify how (09/24/19) levels. (04/27/20) impact possible on and student teacher resources at to access student and (12/11/21) instructional practice learning the school and district teacher resources in Interacts with and student level. the broader members of the Engages with members achievement at school professional broader professional of the broader and district levels and community. community to access professional for the profession. (09/24/19) (04/27/20) resources that support community to access teacher effectiveness resources and a wide Initiates and develops and student learning range of supports for professional learning teaching the full range opportunities with the of learners. (12/11/21) broader professional community focused on student achievement. (04/30/22) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating I am not that connected I collaborate with my I frequently meet up with I facilitate collaboration with the broader colleagues on a weekly a colleague who teaches a with colleagues through professional teaching basis. I keep my more advanced math my weekly PLC meetings, community. I only have department chair on class than mine to discuss regular meetings with some connections from what is happening at the content that must be the school counselors, some other teachers that classroom level for my addressed in my class in regular meetings with I have met at teaching content team. I also order to be successful in the SPED department, conferences. (09/24/19) collaborate with my her class. This year, each case carriers, and content team on the curriculum team in my resource teachers, and by strengths and department created an taking a more active role weaknesses of our essential list of what during the WASC students and brainstorm students need to know accreditation cycle. how to best support their prior to coming into the learning. I also regularly class to ensure that our I work to ensure the communicate with my students are achieving broadest positive impact department on strategies learning goals. I also meet possible on instructional that can help all our with our district practice and student students. I also curriculum teams to achievement through my communicate with the discuss student learning Teacher Leader Project special education staff and ways to improve by presenting on a topic weekly to support teaching practice. that introduces different students with IEPs and (04/27/20) programs and strategies 504s. (09/24/19) to support struggling I collaborate with students. (04/30/22) colleagues regularly to expand impact on teacher and student learning through PLC meetings, department meetings, meetings with counselors, meetings with case carriers and resource teachers, and district meetings. I also engage with members of the broader professional community through blogs and other social media sites. (12/11/21) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating 6.4 Working with Is aware of the role of Acknowledges the Supports families to Provides opportunities Structures a wide families to support the family in student importance of the contribute to the and support for range of opportunities student learning learning and the need family’s role in student classroom and school. families to actively for families to for interactions with learning. Seeks Adjusts participate in the contribute to the families. information about communication to classroom and school. classroom and school cultural norms of families based on community. Supports a families represented in awareness of cultural Communicates to school/district the school. Welcomes norms and wide range families in ways which environment in which family involvement at of experiences with show understanding of families take classroom/ school schools. (12/11/21) and respect for cultural leadership to improve events. (09/24/19) norms. (04/30/22) student learning. (04/27/20) I communicate goals I regularly contact I provide with families parents through opportunities and through Back to email to let them support for families School Night, Open know how their to actively House, and report students are doing participate in the cards. I communicate and what they can do classroom and school expectations to as parents to support by regularly families at the the learning of their communicating with beginning of the year students. I often try families about the with the syllabus. to make the emails needs of the Throughout the year, personalized to each classroom and ways I communicate with student and where they can help. I also parents via parent they are in their regularly conferences, emails, learning process. I communicate with phone calls, and also adjust my families in ways that daily communication to show understanding GoogleClassrooom families based on a of and respect for announcements. I am variety of factors. For cultural norms by still learning about my El students, I communicating in a students’ cultures make sure to include variety of different and their impacts on the EL Coordinator ways that best student learning. at the school since matches what they (09/24/19) she has a closer need. (04/30/22) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating (04/27/20) relationship with the EL families and is a great liaison for parent-teacher communications. I also use Aeries Communication and PowerSchool’s communication platform to communicate with parents since there is the ability to have translation for families who do not understand English fluently. For my students in Special Education, I make sure to include and incorporate the input of case carriers, resource teachers, and other paraeducators. In my communication with other parents, I also make sure to include the school counselors as well. I also communicate daily with parents through Schoology updates which parents have access CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Develops awareness Seeks available Uses a variety of Uses a broad range of Collaborates with about local neighborhood and neighborhood and neighborhood and community members neighborhoods and community resources. community resources community resources to increase communities (12/11/21) to support the to support the instructional and surrounding the (04/30/22) curriculum. instructional program, learning opportunities school. (09/24/19) students, and families. for students. (04/27/20) Includes references or Includes knowledge of connections to communities when Draws from Engages students in Uses available communities in single designing and understanding of leadership and service neighborhood and lessons or sequence of implementing community to improve in the community. community resources lessons. (12/11/21) instruction(04/30/22) and enrich the Incorporates in single lessons. instructional program. community members (09/24/19) (04/27/20) into the school 6.5 Engaging local learning community. communities in I am still learning more Because I moved schools I include knowledge of about the local and districts, I am communities when support of the neighborhoods and starting to seek available designing and instructional communities neighborhood and implementing instruction program surrounding the school. I community resources for by using examples in have not used community my students. I have classroom instruction resources in my lessons. received a lot of help in and practice that my I hope that as I learn this aspect from the students and the more about the counselors at my school. community can relate to. community that I can I have also included (04/30/22) incorporate these references or resources in my lessons connections to (09/24/19) (04/27/20) communities in single lessons or sequence of lessons through incorporating community aspects into word problems and other practice. (12/11/21) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Develops an Maintains professional Anticipates Integrates the full Models understanding of responsibilities in professional range of professional professionalism and professional timely ways and seeks responsibilities and responsibilities into supports colleagues in responsibilities. support as needed. manages time and advanced planning and meeting and exceeding (09/24/19) effort required to meet prepares for situations professional Seeks to meet required expectations. that may be Responsibilities commitments to Demonstrates challenging. effectively. students. commitment by Pursues ways to (12/11/21) exploring ways to support students’ Supports colleagues to address individual diverse learning needs Maintains continual maintain the student needs. and maintains belief in effort to seek, develop, motivation, resiliency, (09/24/19) students’ capacity for and refine new and and energy to ensure achievement. creative methods to that all students (04/27/20) ensure individual achieve. (04/30/22) student learning. 6.6 Managing (12/11/21) professional I mostly only have Now, that I have I have a post-it note I model responsibilities to professional been at this school on my desk that is professionalism and maintain responsibilities. I for 2 years, I am able constantly being support colleagues in motivation and spend almost all time to anticipate my updated with meeting and commitment to all planning lessons and responsibilities and important dates so exceeding students making myself plan accordingly. I that I can integrate professional available to students. am able to schedule the full range of responsibilities I am working on parent meetings as professional effectively. The dean balancing my well as my cheer responsibilities into of the school professional life with advisor meetings in aadvanced planning regularly praises me my personal life so way that meets and prepare for for my poise and as not to be stressed. expectations without situations that may professionalism Currently, I arrive at overloading myself. be challenging. I am when dealing with school at 6 am and (04/27/20) also in constant students who are leave at 6 pm. I am communication with misbehaving and helping students by I am also always colleagues so that I when tutoring them, even seeking ways to ensure my full range communicating with students who are no support my students’ of professional families. (04/30/22) longer mine till 6 learning needs. I am responsibilities are CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating daily. Once or twice a constantly met. (12/11/21) week, I skip lunch to communicating to help students who my students that are unavailable for they can still be extra help after successful in the school. (09/24/19) classroom and providing them strategies to be successful in the classroom. One way of doing so is reminding them of ways they can improve and small things they can focus their energy and time on that reap big rewards in the classroom. (04/27/20) CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating Follows all state education codes, legal requirements, district and site Maintains a high standard of personal integrity policies, contractual agreements, and ethical responsibilities.* and commitment to student learning and the profession in all circumstances. * As follows: ● Take responsibility for student academic learning outcomes. Contributes to building professional community ● Is aware of own personal values and biases and recognizes ways in which and holding peers accountable to norms of these values and biases affect the teaching and learning of students. respectful treatment and communication. ● Adheres to legal and ethical obligations in teaching the full ranges of learners, including English learners and students with special needs. Contributes to fostering a school culture with a ● Reports suspected cases of child abuse and/or neglect as outlined in the high degree of resilience, professional integrity, California Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. and ethical conduct. (12/11/21)(04/30/22) ● Maintains a non-hostile classroom environment and carries out laws and district guidelines for reporting cases of sexual harassment. ● Understands and implements school and district policies and state and federal law in responding to inappropriate or violent student behavior. 6.7 Demonstrating ● Complies with legal and professional obligations to protect the privacy, professional health, and safety of students, families, and other school professionals. responsibility, ● Models appropriate behavior for students, colleagues, and the profession. integrity, and ● Acts in accordance with ethical considerations for students. ethical conduct ● Maintains professional conduct and integrity in the classroom and school community. (09/24/19) (04/27/20) I demonstrate a professional demeanor both in the classroom and within the I maintain a high standard of personal integrity and school community. Despite only being a second-year teacher, I am known as a commitment to student learning and the profession professional who is committed to student learning. I follow all state education through my conversations and actions in the school codes, legal requirements, district and site policies, contractual agreements, and with colleagues and with students. I contribute to ethical responsibilities. (09/24/19) (04/27/20) building professional community by regularly communicating with colleagues and participating in additional activities with the school. I also contribute to fostering a school culture with a high degree of resilience, professional integrity, and ethical conduct through regular conversations with colleagues about what we are doing and through meaningful connections with students. (12/11/21) (04/30/22)