CAEP Standards
STANDARD 1 – Understanding and
Addressing Each Child’s Developmental
and Learning Needs
Candidates use their understanding of child
growth and development, individual
differences, and diverse families, cultures and
communities to plan and implement inclusive
learning 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 Content and Curricular
Knowledge for Teaching
Candidates demonstrate and apply
understandings of major concepts, skills, and
practices, as they interpret disciplinary
curricular standards and related expectations
within and across literacy, mathematics,
science, and social studies.
STANDARD 3 – Assessing, Planning, and
Designing Contexts for Learning
Candidates assess students, plan instruction
and design classroom contexts for learning.
Candidates use formative and summative
assessment to monitor students’ learning and
guide 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
I sought to incorporate Standard 1 into each
of my lessons:
I chunked the information into smaller parts.
Many of my students were visual learners, so
in my math lessons, I integrated student-
centered technology to provide a variety of
visual aids from www.toytheater.com. This
also helped my ELL student.
I provided math manipulatives such as
counting blocks, counting chips, straws, and
buttons.
I taught students how to use a variety of tools
such as rekenreks, 10 frames, number bonds,
and number lines to represent numbers and
model and solve problems. For example, see
Lesson #4
I incorporated Standard 2 into my math
lessons through Read Alouds that contained
rhyming words. Please see Lesson #1.
I incorporated Standard 3 in Lesson #2. I
differentiated instruction by asking Blooms
Taxonomy questions such as How do you
know? Can you show me how you got that
answer?
I incorporated pre-assessments such as
www.kahoot.com as well as informative,
formative, and summative assessments to
monitor students’ learning.
In science, I had students do a GRAP activity
to demonstrate what they learned about the 3
R’s: recycle, reduce, and reuse. They were
tasked with taking materials that we brought
in such as cardboard, paper, and plastic and
reuse them to build their own robots.
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Standard 4 – Supporting Each Child’s I incorporated Standard 4 in every lesson by

Learning Using Effective Instruction. having flexible and small groups after whole
Candidates make informed decisions about group instruction to help fill in learning gaps.
instruction guided by knowledge of children I also checked for understand during these
and assessment of children’s learning that times.
result in the use of a variety of effective
instructional practices that employ print, and
digital appropriate resources. Instruction is
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 During both my student teaching placements,

Professional I attended PLC’s and Team meetings. I
Candidates promote learning and contributed my ideas and participated in the
development of every child through activities they presented. I will continue to be
participation in collaborative learning a lifelong learner!
environments, reflective self-study and
professional learning, and involvement in
their professional community.