CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

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Plans daily lessons using Plans single lessons or Plans differentiated Plans differentiated Plans differentiated
available curriculum and sequence of lessons using instruction based on instruction, which is instruction that provides
information from district additional assessment knowledge of students’ based on broad systematic opportunities
and state required information on student academic readiness, knowledge of students. for supporting and
assessments. academic readiness, academic language, Matches resources and extending student
language, cultural diverse cultural specific strategies to learning based on
Is aware of impact of bias background, and backgrounds, and students’ diverse learning comprehensive
4.1 Using knowledge
on learning. individual development. individual cognitive, needs and cultural information on students.
of students’ academic
social, emotional, and backgrounds. 9.22.17
readiness, language
physical development to 5.10.18
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meet their individual 10.29.18
background, and
needs.
individual
Becomes aware of Planning addresses bias,
development to plan
potential areas of bias Examines potential stereotyping, and
instruction.
and seeks to learn about sources of bias and assumptions about Engages students in the
culturally responsive stereotyping when cultures an members of analysis of bias,
pedagogy. planning lessons. Uses cultures. stereotyping, and
culturally responsive assumptions. 9.22.17
pedagogy in planning. 5.10.18
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Planning differentiated
instruction that provides
opportunities for
supporting and extending
learning is one thing I
believe I am very good at.
I am not perfect, and
there will always be room
for improvement, but I try
really hard to plan in a
way that will successfully
support the diverse
learning needs in my
classroom. I base my
differentiated planning on
the comprehensive
information I am have
gathered and continue to
gather on my students. I
realize that if the content
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is not relevant or
accessible to my students,
they will not care nor
learn.

I actively engage my
students in analyzing and
challenging our bias’,
stereotypes, and
assumptions. I think that
my active engagement is
one of the best rapport
building tools in my
teaching. I am white and I
come from a privileged
middle-class family. My
students are 98%
Hispanic or Latino and
they come from
generational cycles of
poverty. I realize that we
have bias’ and
assumptions, and my
open honesty and
engagement with my
students has built
rapport, challenged
stereotypes, and
facilitated powerful
discussion about
stereotypes in the
classroom.

I have continued to
practice planning
differentiated instruction
that provides systematic
opportunities for
supporting and extending
student learning based on
comprehensive
information on students.
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My comprehensive
information on my
students has continued to
grow and develop
throughout the school
year and this has helped
me develop in this
category and more
appropriately tailor my
planning to support my
students needs.

I also actively engage

students in the analysis of
bias, stereotyping, and
assumptions. I think the
best way I have done this
is through the open
honesty and examination
of the biases that exist
between the students and
I. I fully admit to them
that I am a white female
who is trying to learn
more about their culture
and language norms. I
also challenge biases I
hear when I hear the
students call each other
stereotypical names that
are disparaging. This
open honesty and
challenging from a place
of love have helped me
build strong rapport and
have some really
powerful discussions with
my middle school
students about race,
stereotypes and biases in
and out of the classroom.
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CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

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I plan differentiated
instruction that provides
systematic opportunities
for supporting and
extending student
learning based on
comprehensive
information I know about
my students. I know that
my SPED rotation of
students will need more
scaffolding and
differentiation than my
higher achieving student
rotation. I realize that
certain students in my
other rotations will need
me to chunk the
assignments more than
others. I take this all into
account as I plan my
lessons. 10.29.18

I continue to actively
engage my students in the
analysis of bias,
stereotyping, and
assumptions. Every year,
we actively engage in bias
and dialogue about the
different cultures
between my student’s and
I. We talk about
stereotypes and
assumptions and how
harmful they can be. I also
teach about assumptions
when I have the students
work on an activity where
they will not be successful
if they “assume” they
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know what to do. They
have to carefully read
instructions and rely on
their partners to succeed.
This assignment works as
a platform from which we
can deeper dive into
assumptions and how
harmful they can be at
times. 10.29.18

Communicates learning Establishes and shares Establishes and Establishes and Establishes and
objectives for a single learning goals for skill communicates to articulates learning goals articulates
lesson to students based development with students clear learning to students that integrate comprehensive short-
4.2 Establishing and on content standards and students in single lessons goals for content that are content standards with term and long-term
articulating goals for available curriculum. and sequence of lessons. accessible, challenging, students’ strengths, learning goals for
student learning and differentiated to interests, and learning students. Assists students
address students’ diverse needs. to articulate and monitor
learning needs. 9.22.17 10.29.18 learning goals.
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I put myself in the
“applying” category here
because, after reflection, I
realize that I need to be
better at communicating
my learning goals to my
students. I write down my
learning goals that I want
my students to meet, but
that does not help them. I
need to communicate
these established
learning goals to my
students on a more
frequent basis.
Integrating Innovating
I feel very strong when it
comes to planning
differentiated lessons that
have learning goals which
are directly connected to
content and state
standards. I made it a goal
of mine to intentionally
communicate these
learning goals to the
students and I have
improved significantly in
doing so. Daily I
communicate my learning
goals to the students.
These learning goals are
relevant, they are
integrated to my
students’ strengths and
designed to help my
students grow and
maximize learning in my
classroom. 5.10.18
I establish and articulate
learning goals to students
that integrate content
standards’ with students’
strengths, interests, and
learning needs. I do this
by daily reviewing our
learning goals and using
“I” statements. For
example, as I write this,
today our learning goal
was “I will compare and
contrast the change in
potential energy in
repelling and attracting
magnets by completing
the graphic organizer”.
This tells the students
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what I plan to do for the
day and what they should
expect to learn for the
day. This ensures that the
students’ and I know
what the plan for the day
is. 10.29.18

Uses available curriculum Begins to plan curriculum Establishes short- and Refines sequence of long- Utilizes extensive
for daily, short- and long- units that include a series long-term curriculum term plans to reflect knowledge of curriculum,
4.3 Developing and term plans. of connected lessons and plans for subject matter integrations of content standards, and
sequencing long- are linked to long-term concepts and essential curriculum guidelines, assess learning needs to
term and short-term planning to support related academic frameworks, and assessed design cohesive and
instructional plans to student learning. language and formats that instructional needs to comprehensive long- and
support student support student learning. ensure student learning. short-term instructional
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One of my strengths is I refine my sequence of
planning differentiated long-term plans to reflect
lessons that will meet integrations of
short-term curriculum curriculum guidelines,
plans for concepts, frameworks, and assessed
academic language, and instructional needs to
formats that support ensure student learning. I
student learning. I would do this by planning ahead
love to improve in my and working “backwards”
long-term curriculum through my plans to make
planning, though. I think sure that we will stay on
that quite a bit of this task, as I take into
development comes from account the data that I
and with experience. The have collected from my
more I am able to students and their
improve my short-term assessed learning needs. I
planning, the easier long- credit my success in this
term planning will be; area of planning to
and experience is the best successfully completing 1
teacher in the long-term full year of 7th grade math
planning area. and 8th grade science last
school year. 10.29.18
Now that I have
completed a full year of
teaching both 7th grade
math and 8th grade
science, I have a much
better idea of how to
successfully long-term
plan curriculum that
includes essential topics,
academic language
development, rigor and
meets my students
learning needs. I would
still like to refine my long-
term planning, however,
and this is why I have
decided to continue to
rate myself in the
“applying” category. As I
look ahead to next year
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and planning for the fall
semester, I will have the
opportunity to practice
refining my long-term
planning skills and I look
forward to this
opportunity. 5.10.18
CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

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Plans instruction that Selects strategies for Incorporates Plans instruction using a Plans instruction
incorporates strategies single lessons or differentiated wide range of strategies incorporating a repertoire
suggested by curriculum sequence of lessons that instructional strategies to address learning styles of strategies specifically
guidelines. respond to students’ into ongoing planning and meet students’ meet students’ diverse
diverse learning needs. that addresses culturally assessed language and language and learning
Is aware of student responsive pedagogy, learning needs. Provides needs and styles to
content, learning, and students’ diverse appropriate support and advance learning for all.
4.4 Planning
language needs through language, and learning challenges for students. 5.10.18
instruction that
data provided by the site Seeks to learn about needs and styles. 9.22.17 10.29.18
incorporates
and district. students’ diverse learning
appropriate
and language needs Uses assessments of Facilitates opportunities
strategies to meet the
beyond basic data. students’ learning and Integrates results from a for students to reflect on
learning needs of all
language needs to inform broad range of their learning and the
students
planning differentiated assessments into impact of instructional
instruction. planning to meet strategies to meet their
students’ diverse learning learning and language
and language needs. needs.
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I am fortunate to work at I feel very comfortable
a charter school that planning instruction and
encourages innovation in incorporating a repertoire
the classroom. Therefore, of strategies that
I have been able to plan specifically meet the
differentiated lessons and diverse language and
incorporate Kagan and learning needs in my
other strategies to classroom. This year has
support the wide variety given me the opportunity
of language and learning to refine my planning and
needs in my classroom. I help me become strong in
am very good at this area of this category.
providing learning and My goal is to advance
language support. I would learning for all, and I plan
like to improve in for that well. 5.10.18
challenging my students
who could benefit from a I plan instruction to
challenge. incorporate a repertoire
of strategies that
I integrate the results specifically meet my
from the ongoing students’ diverse
monitoring, informal, language needs. I do this
formal and authentic by scaffolding lessons,
assessments I use in the front-loading vocabulary,
classroom into my and intentionally
planning. If my students planning time to use and
have met the standard or practice language to
demonstrated mastery support my students. The
(as a majority) I move on scaffolded and
in my sequence of differentiated lessons I
instruction. I provide plan also meet my
ample re-engagement students’ diverse learning
opportunities to reteach needs and styles. I use
challenging concepts and strategies such as
to help support my planning student-
students in meeting centered lessons, time for
content standards. collaboration with peers,
time for independent
Experience has been the analysis and work, and I
best teacher when it allow multiple
comes to developing my technologies to be used to
integration of assessment accomplish a task, all to
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results to meet students meet my students’ diverse
diverse language and learning needs. 10.29.18
learning needs.
Assessment started of as
a challenge for me, and
now it is a tool I wield
easier and more often,
because I have seen the
direct correlation of
assessment data
improving my teaching
practice. My next goal, to
improve in this category,
is to facilitate more
student self reflection
opportunities to increase
their learning in my
classroom. To do this, I
am going to intentionally
plan self-reflection
opportunities and
activities as I look ahead
to planning for next year.
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I integrate results from a

broad range of
assessments into my
planning to meet my
students’ diverse learning
and language needs. I do
this really well because I
incorporate results from
authentic assessments,
formative assessments,
summative assessments,
and more. To be more
effective and innovating I
would like to plan in more
time for my students’ to
reflect on their learning
and how instructional
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strategies are meeting
their diverse learning
needs. 10.29.18

Implements lessons and Begins to adapt plans and Makes adjustments and Makes ongoing Anticipates and plans for
uses materials from materials in single adaptations to adjustments to a wide range of
curriculum provided. lessons or sequences of differentiate instructional instructional plans and adaptations to lessons
lessons to address plans. Uses culturally uses a variety of materials based on in depth
4.5 Adapting
students’ learning needs. responsive pedagogy and as the instructional needs analysis of individual
instructional plans
additional materials to arises to support student student needs.
and curricular
support students’ diverse learning. 9.22.17
materials to meet the
learning needs. 5.10.18 Engages with students to
assessed learning
10.29.18 identify types of
needs of all students.
adjustments in
instruction that best meet
their learning goals.
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My flexibility in the
classroom allows me to
make ongoing
adjustments to plans and
use a variety of materials
as the need arises to
support my students
learning. I do my best to
adjust my plans and
utilize materials that
support a learner-centric
classroom; I do not know
everything as the teacher,
I am only human. I also
try to build my students
self-efficacy and
advocating skills so they
can really “own” and take
responsibility for their
learning in the classroom.
I believe a learner-centric
classroom supports these
goals I have for my
students, and hence I
adjust my plans and
materials to reflect these
goals.

I find that I am constantly

making adjustments to
instructional plans to best
support my students’
learning. Flexibility in
planning is a key to being
a good teacher, in my
opinion. I use a variety of
materials to support my
students learning needs. I
do not think I have every
implemented a lesson
from the curriculum
without adjusting it and
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adapting it to meet my
students’ learning needs,
and to ensure that it
meets learning objectives
that I created that are
tailored to help students
achieve state and content
standards. Adjustments
and adaptations are
critical to support my
students to be successful.
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I make ongoing
adjustments to
instructional plans
before, during, and after
lessons. I want to be the
best teacher I can be, and
in order for me to do that
I know that I must make
adjustments like this to
my plans to best serve my
students and advance
their learning. I also use
a variety of materials as
the instructional needs
arise to support my
students’ learning. I want
to make sure my
students’ enjoy learning
and the best way for them
to enjoy learning is to
have access to a variety of
materials that teach the
same concept so they feel
successful in their
learning. 10.29.18