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 of Uses data from multiple Uses comprehensive
through data provided by learn about individual formal and informal measures to make knowledge of students to
the school and/or students. sources to learn about adjustments to instruction make ongoing
assessments. students and guide and meet individual adjustments and
selection of instructional identified learning needs. accommodations in
strategies to meet diverse instruction.
learning needs.
Using knowledge of
Students actively utilize a
students to engage
Some students may Students engage in single Student engage in learning variety of instructional Students take ownership
them in learning
engage in learning using lessons or sequence of through the use of strategies and of their learning by
instructional strategies lessons that include some adjustments in instruction technologies in learning choosing from a wide
focused on the class as a adjustments based on to meet their that ensure equitable range of methods to
whole. assessments. needs.9/20/21 access to the curriculum. further their learning that
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Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Collected additional
information about
students using SEL
strategies and activities.
Students respond to
questions about learning
and what works best for
them, note taking
strategies, areas of
interest. Students choice in
topics of research,
experimental design in
own interests, options in
final product. 9/20/21
Evidence
Data collected through
further understanding of
students as the school
year progresses, and from
conversations with other
figures in students’ lives,
including parents and
counselors. Students
presented with a wide
array of formats for
materials and content, and
allowed to choose what
works best for them and
their particular learning
styles. 4/28/2022
Continued collecting data
via multiple tools and use
that to inform teaching
and tools used in the
classroom to give access to
all students. Tools are
vetted to ensure that it is
compatible with most
devies. 12/6/22
Using my understanding
of student strengths, I
adjust my teaching to each
class and to the
individuals of each class
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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
Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Uses gathered Uses school resources and family Integrates broad Develops and
information about contacts to expand knowledge of systematically uses
students’ prior understanding of students’ prior students and their extensive information
knowledge, cultural knowledge, cultural backgrounds, communities to regarding students’
backgrounds, life life experiences, and interests to inform instruction. cultural backgrounds,
experiences, and interest connect to student prior knowledge, life
to support student learning.4/28/2022 experiences, and
learning.9/20/21 interests.
Students make connections
between curriculum, and their
Students participate in prior knowledge, backgrounds, Students can articulate
single lessons or life experiences, and Students are the relevance and impact
sequences of lessons interests.9/20/21 4/28/2022 actively engaged in of lessons on their lives
related to their interests curriculum, which and society.
and experiences. relates their prior
knowledge,
experiences, and
interests within
and across
learning activities.
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Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Student information Students use personal Students actively
provided by school interests and choice in engage with class
activities and
on background, projects, students engage projects, bringing
counselors work with recall to life in their interests
closely with me to experiences and prior and outside
ensure knowledge experience9/20/21 knowledge, for
and understanding example ,a student
Parents and counselors are did a project on
about family
looped in when appropriate to photosynthesis
background and help support student in the most and cellular
experience9/20/21. effective ways possible, respiration and
information from sources is used used pitbull as
to understand student needs and their topic because
interests. 4/28/2022 they really like
pitbull. 12/6/22
Students are able to relate class
to their real lives, and often time Students are given
are interested in the examples opportunities for
brought up during class. For choice in their
example, students were very projects and
Evidence interested to find that Ligers are assignments, and
a real thing when we were talking the choices are
about Hybrids and species, and designed to pull
many were doing individual from interests and
research on them. 4/28/2022 real world
experiences. For
example, a recent
project asked
students to choose
a condition that
runs in an
imaginary family
and do genetic
counseling for that
family. Students
are able to explore
conditions they
have heard of or
potentially know
people who have
these conditions.
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Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
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.9/20/21 family and instruction to engage subject matter
community.4/28/2022 students in relating to instruction.
Connecting subject
subject matter. 5/2/23
matter to
meaningful, real-life
Some students relate Students make use of Students actively engage Students routinely
contexts
subject matter to real-life. real-life connections Students utilize real-life in making and using integrate subject matter
provided in single lessons connections regularly to real-life connections to into their own thinking
or sequence of lessons to develop understandings subject matter to extend and make relevant
support understanding of of subject matter.9/20/21 their applications of subject
subject matter. understanding.4/28/202 matter during learning
212/6/22 activities.5/2/23
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Students engage in Students encouraged When discussing
learning through to connect learning to content in class,
phenomenon that life, and place content students make
many have seen in within their lives and connections to their
their past, experience experience9/20/21 own lives and discuss
connections to their if this is a good
personal lives9/20/21 In class content is example of the
connected to experiences
that students have had
content we are
and opportunities that learning. For
students can participate example, students
Evidence in, for example we discussed and asked
discussed and had if mules were an
students bring in water
example of a hybrid,
samples from different
water sources near their as they had seen
communities and looked mules before.
at the water to see what 4/28/2022
was in it and the quality
of the water. 4/28/2022 Bring in real world news
and events in order to
allow students to connect
to content more.
Additionally, using their
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
Some students participate
meet students’
in instructional strategies,
diverse learning
using resources and
needs
technologies provided.
bodies to have them
experience it personally. I
had students do
jazzercise as our intro to
cellular respiration to
have them brainstorm
and connect the exercise
and process of cellular
respiration12/6/22
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 meet students’ diverse learning needs.
needs.9/20/21 learning needs.
Students participate in Students actively engage Students take
Students participate in instruction using in instruction and make responsibilities for using
single lessons or strategies, resources, and use of a variety of a wide range of strategies,
sequence of lessons technologies matched to targeted strategies, resources, and
related to their interests their learning resources, and technologies that
and experiences. needs.9/20/21 technologies to meet their successfully advance their
individual students needs learning.
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Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Diversified lesson Students engage in Students engage in
plans, different content using content in their
methods and strategies introduced preferred ways, some
resources for in class, often students play games
learning, hands on choosing which that incorporate
tools, labs, videos, strategy they feel content as that is
text interpretation, most comfortable their interest, other
simulations, etc with 9/20/21 students went for
9/20/21 vocabulary whenever
presented.
I present information 4/28/2022
in many ways even
within the same Materials have been
lesson, for example adapted to help students
of all levels to increase
with stations, I access and ability to
ensure that material engage. With UDL in
is presented visually, mind, I try to always make
Evidence
through videos, sure there are physical
simulations, and and digital copies, large
font, and allowance for
through games
engaging in different
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I attended a conference in
order to gather more
information and support
lesson planning and new
practices in teaching. I
made sure to prioritize
attending sessions that
provided insight on how
to improve student
learning, like THIS
session on bringing
phenomena through a
unit 5/2/23

Element 1.5 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Asks questions that focus Includes questions in Guide students to think
on factual knowledge and single lessons or a critically through use of
comprehension. sequence of lessons that questioning strategies,
require students to recall, posing/solving problems,
interpret, and think and reflection on issues in
Promoting critical critically. content.9/20/21
thinking though 4/28/2022
inquiry, problem
solving, and Some students respond to Students respond to
reflection questions regarding facts varied questions or tasks Students respond to
and comprehension. designed to promote questions and problems
comprehension and posed by the teacher and
critical thinking in single begin to pose and solve
lessons or a sequence of problems of their own
lessons. related to the content.
Students engaged in
learning through
exploration,
brainstorming critical
questions, proposing
explanations,
reflecting on data and
conclusions, 9/20/21
Students are
encouraged to think
through problems
Evidence
and questions
critically, but some
students have not yet
been guided to the
next step of
independently
developing complex
questions yet.
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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.12/6/22
Students pose problems Students pose and answer
and construct questions a wide-range of complex
of their own to support questions and problems,
inquiries into reflect, and communicate
content.9/20/21 understandings based on
4/28/202212/6/225/2/ in depth analysis of
23 content learning.
Students pose
questions about what
they see and
experience within
content and in each
smaller topic
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Students are able to
ask their own
questions, but some
students rely on the
guidance of peers or
are worried about
asking “wrong”
questions and tend to
want an answer from
me first 4/28/2022
Student discussions
revolve around questions
that they have about
content and the way the
content connects with the
real world, students
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
question and develop
answers for questions like
“why does drinking salt
water make you
thirstier?’ and apply their
content knowledge
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Students pose questions

to one another to
understand concepts, and
can connect things like a
boardgame about bears to
natural selection and
evolution 5/2/23

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 challenge. concepts flexibly and
Monitoring student
understanding.9/20/21 effectively.
learning and
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adjusting instruction
Some students receive Students receive Students are able to Students monitor their
while teaching.
individual assistance assistance individually or articulate their level of progress in learning and
during instruction. in small groups during Students successfully understanding and use provide information to
instruction.9/20/21 participate and stay teacher guidance to meet teacher that informs
engaged in learning their needs during adjustments in
activities. 4/28/2022 instruction.12/6/225/2/ instruction.
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Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Students work in Adjust as necessary
group with to questions posed in Students self assess their
learning and can ask
monitoring and class and formative questions about their
question response, assessment feedback own learning to use that
while there is large 9/20/21 and advocate for
group activities, some themselves. I adjust
students stray I make adjustments teaching according to
student responses and
9/20/21 to lessons and
conversations that I hear.
activities based on 12/6/22
how students are
responding to Students use a self
Evidence questions and their developed tool to assess
questions about their learning and what
aspects of the content
content. Overall, they should focus on.
students stay 5/2/23
engaged and
participate in
learning activities,
some students
require redirection at
times, but as a whole
they engage in
content. 4/28/2022