Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning

Element 1.1 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Learns about students Gathers additional data Uses data from a variety of Uses data from multiple Uses comprehensive
through data provided to learn about individual formal and informal sources to measures to make knowledge of students to
by the school and/or students. learn about students and guide adjustments to make ongoing
assessments. selection of instructional instruction and meet adjustments and
strategies to meet diverse individual identified accommodations in
learning needs. learning needs. 9/26/17, instruction. 5/1/19
5/7/18, 12/12/18
Using knowledge of Student engage in learning
students to engage Some students may Students engage in through the use of adjustments Students take ownership
them in learning engage in learning using single lessons or in instruction to meet their Students actively utilize of their learning by
instructional strategies sequence of lessons that needs. 9/26/17 a variety of instructional choosing from a wide
focused on the class as a include some strategies and range of methods to
whole. adjustments based on technologies in learning further their learning
assessments. that ensure equitable that are responsive to
access to the curriculum. their learning needs.
5/7/18, 12/12/18,
5/1/19
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
I am able to provide students
with adjustments and
accommodations/modifications
when needed pretty regularly. I
still struggle with
differentiating on a more
detailed level allowing students
to take more ownership of the
process. 9/26/17
Evidence
Having been at my I have worked hard to get
school for a while and to know my students and
also being an their needs through data
administrator, I have a and consultations with
lot of knowledge about other staff who know
individual student needs them well. I often give
that I am able to apply in certain students
planning and in my particular jobs
instruction. I also have throughout dance class
easy access to other and work to try out a
school staff who can variety of strategies to
provide additional info meet their needs. I am
when needed. 9/26/17 not yet at the innovating
level for my students
I feel this year I have though; I need to figure
grown in my ability to out ways to offer a
differentiate and offer greater variety of choice
resources for students in the dance class setting.
with different needs. I 5/1/19
have focused on using
more visuals and
individualized incentive
plans for certain
students – and have
definitely seen the
benefit! 5/7/18
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 Some students connect
experiences, and learning activities to their
interests own lives.
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 9/26/17, 5/7/18, cultural backgrounds,
experiences, and interest backgrounds, life 12/12/18 prior knowledge, life
to support student experiences, and interests experiences, and interests.
learning. to connect to student 5/1/19
learning.
Students participate in Students make Students can articulate
single lessons or connections between the relevance and impact
sequences of lessons curriculum, and their Students are actively of lessons on their lives
related to their interests prior knowledge, engaged in curriculum, and society. 5/1/19
and experiences. backgrounds, life which relates their prior
experiences, and knowledge, experiences,
interests. and interests within and
across learning activities.
9/26/17, 5/7/18,
12/12/18
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
This is an area that I feel Being at my school for 6
strongly about and I strive years now, I have a greater
to address in my lesson understanding of my
planning and instruction. students and their
I like to take time for background and I make a
students to reflect on how point to guide them
their learning relates to towards connections
their lived experiences whenever I can. I often
outside the classroom and ask them to consider and
to provide ideas about articulate how their dance
how to make it all more learning relates to their
relevant. 9/26/17 life experiences, in age
appropriate ways. I still
While I would like to be want to take Spanish
able to score myself as lessons, but my
“innovating” in this comprehension and
category, I believe that I ability to speak in very
still need to grow a bit to basic sentences has
get there. I feel part of the increased! 5/1/19
challenge for me is that
my own cultural
Evidence background is, in general,
very different from that of
the majority of my
students and, while I have
great respect for and
interest in their
experiences and do my
best to incorporate them
in the dance classroom
experiences, I am not able
to tap into as many details
as other teachers who
more closely share a
cultural background with
our students. This does
not mean I will stop
trying; I am just pointing
out that this is an added
obstacle for me. To this
end, I do hope to start
Spanish classes this
summer. 5/7/18
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.3 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating
Uses real-life connections Explore using additional Integrates connections Integrates connections to
during instruction as real-life connections to from subject matter to meaningful, real-life
identified to curriculum. subject matter in single meaningful, real-life contexts in planning
lessons or sequence of contexts, including those subject matter instruction
lessons to support specific to students’ and is responsive during
understanding. family and community. instruction to engage
Connecting subject students in relating to
matter to subject matter. 9/26/17
meaningful, real-life 5/7/18, 12/12/18
contexts Some students relate Students make use of Students utilize real-life
subject matter to real-life. real-life connections connections regularly to Students actively engage
provided in single lessons develop understandings in making and using real-
or sequence of lessons to of subject matter. life connections to subject
support understanding of matter to extend their
subject matter. understanding. 9/26/17,
5/7/18, 12/12/18
Evidence I feel similarly about this
element as 1.2 – it is
important to me so I do
focus on it and see more
success when I do.
9/26/17
I feel excited that I often
hear my students
reflecting on how what
they learn in our dance
class relates to their real
life experiences and I try
to encourage this by
having students regularly
engage in both small and
large projects that
emphasize such
connections. One small
activity that we do each
class is students create
poses (during a
transition) to illustrate
something that happened
to them since we last met.
We then copy the poses of
Innovating
Engages student in
actively making
connections to relevant,
meaningful, and real-life
contexts throughout
subject matter
instruction. 5/1/19
Students routinely
integrate subject matter
into their own thinking
and make relevant
applications of subject
matter during learning
activities. 5/1/19
Similar to the above, I
have gotten to know my
students well enough to
often guide them to make
connections between
connect and their lived
experiences. I also have
had the benefit of
teaching certain students
across grade levels and
can challenge them to
think back to content
from past years as they
approach
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.4 Emerging
Using a variety of Uses instructional
instructional strategies, resources, and
strategies, resources, technologies as provided
and technologies to by school and/or district.
meet students’
diverse learning
needs
Some students participate
in instructional strategies,
using resources and
technologies provided.
one or two students who
share the event in more
detail. I’m still looking to
push myself and my
students with larger
projects that make even
more meaningful
connections. 5/7/18
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. 5/1/19
diverse learning needs. meet students’ diverse learning needs. 9/26/17
learning needs. 5/7/18, 12/12/18
Students participate in Students participate in Students take
single lessons or instruction using Students actively engage responsibilities for using
sequence of lessons strategies, resources, and in instruction and make a wide range of strategies,
related to their interests technologies matched to use of a variety of resources, and
and experiences. their learning needs. targeted strategies, technologies that
resources, and successfully advance their
technologies to meet their learning.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
individual students needs.
9/26/17, 5/7/18,
12/12/18, 5/1/19
I do try to use a variety of
instructional strategies
and to reteach using
different strategies when
necessary. Sometimes the
logistics of utilizing
technology make it hard
to apply in the class on a
regular or individualized
way, but I try. 9/26/17
I have made an attempt to
use technology more
regularly this year, though
I would say I am just
Evidence using more of the same
types (video excerpts of
professional dance, edited
music, recorded video of
rehearsal for assessment)
as opposed to introducing
new technologies.
(Although I have been
using Kickboard and Class
Dojo regularly and that is
new.) I would like to
continue to push myself
towards more variety
both with technology and
other resources. 5/7/18
Element 1.5 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating
Promoting critical Asks questions that focus Includes questions in Guide students to think Supports students to
thinking though on factual knowledge and single lessons or a critically through use of initiate critical thinking
inquiry, problem comprehension. sequence of lessons that questioning strategies, through independently
solving, and require students to recall, posing/solving problems, developing questions,
reflection interpret, and think and reflection on issues in posing problems and
critically. content. 9/26/17, reflecting on multiple
5/7/18, 12/12/18 perspectives. 5/1/19
After our semester with a
focus on technology, I
have become more adept
at using it regularly and
with ease. I have seen
how certain students
really benefit from using
technology or having
other resources made
available to them. I still
feel I often am offering
those resources to them
and not just having them
available for students to
take advantage of on their
own. Part of this has to
do with the shared nature
of the dance studio space.
But it could still be an
area of growth for me.
5/1/19
Innovating
Facilitates systematic
opportunities for student
to apply critical thinking
by designing structured
inquiries into complex
problems.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Some students respond to Students respond to
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.
9/26/17, 5/7/18,
12/12/18, 5/1/19
I feel that I often
encourage students to
think critically during
lessons in an impromptu
way, and I have a good
number of inquiry based
lessons, but I could grow
in this area. 9/26/17
When I look at the criteria
for “integrating” for this
element, I still do not feel
I am there. I continue to
Evidence push students in their
critical thinking by posing
questions that ask them
to think critically and by
often incorporating
reflection into lessons,
but I have yet to guide
them to create the lines of
questioning themselves. I
need to think creatively
about what this might
look like in dance.
5/7/18
Element 1.6 Emerging Exploring Applying
Monitoring student Implements lessons Seeks to clarify Makes ongoing
learning and following curriculum instruction and learning adjustments to
adjusting instruction guidelines. activities to support instruction based on
while teaching. student understanding. observation of student
engagement and regular
checks for understanding.
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 content. reflect, and communicate
understandings based on
in depth analysis of
content learning.
While this may not be as
straight forward in dance
as it is in other subjects, I
have pushed myself and
my students to consider
different viewpoints of
choreographers,
characters and artists and
have opened up critical
discussion to delve more
deeply into these topics. I
also give students
opportunities to create
dance pieces, which
requires critical
application of content,
and to give both positive
and constructive criticism
to one another. 5/1/19
Integrating Innovating
Adjusts strategies during Makes adjustments to
instruction based on the extend learning
ongoing monitoring of opportunities and provide
individual student needs assistance to students in
for assistance, support, or mastering the concepts
challenge. 9/26/17 flexibly and effectively.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Some students receive Students receive Students successfully Students are able to
individual assistance assistance individually or participate and stay articulate their level of
during instruction. in small groups during engaged in learning understanding and use
instruction. activities. 9/26/17 teacher guidance to meet
their needs during
instruction. 5/7/18
Evidence I feel I am in the I think I’m pretty good at
“integrating” category on assessing understanding
this item for all students in the moment and
except for my higher adjusting my instruction
needs SPED students. I accordingly. 9/26/17
struggle with making this
next step with them. I continue to make
9/26/17 adjustments to lessons as
needed and have become
even better about
stopping a lesson when a
misconception is noted to
reteach/model, etc.
immediately. I still would
rate myself as integrating
and not innovating
however.
I have given a lot of
attention to my higher
needs students, figuring
out more effective
strategies/tools to meet
their needs such as
visuals, scaffolding and
individualized check-ins,
this year and I’ve seen the
difference. I also have
become better at doing
check-ins with all
students, even very
informal ones like
“thumbs up/thumbs
down” and have created a
culture where students
speak up if they need
clarification or added
12/12/18, 5/1/19
Students monitor their
progress in learning and
provide information to
teacher that informs
adjustments in
instruction. 5/1/19
I feel I may be at
innovating with this
element in the sense that I
feel confident adjusting
lessons when I need to. I
have enough tools at hand
and through experience
that I have the flexibility
to change as needed to
allow students to
effectively learn the
content. 12/12/18
The introduction this year
of clear genre specific
benchmark assessment
checklists has allowed
students more ownership
of their learning and
strengthened their ability
to ask for what they need
in order to be successful.
5/1/19
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
resources to access the
content. 5/7/18