Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Teacher Candidate:
Naena Bland
Date:
Evaluation Level:
Student Teaching
Purpose of Evaluation
Observation
Final Evaluation
Grade/Subject:
School/Mentor:
Completed by:
Lowell Oswald
Indicator 1.1 - Creates developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences based on
each learner’s strengths, interests, and needs.
Indicator 1.2 - Collaborates with families, colleagues, and other professionals to promote student
growth and development.
Today's lesson required students to answer a variety of questions to demonstrate their understanding of the
text. Naena demonstrated an understanding of learners' developmental levels and is familiar with each
student's IEP goals. She regularly initiates communication with her mentor teacher and other school
personnel to help support student progress.
Indicator 2.1 - Allows learners multiple ways to demonstrate learning sensitive to diverse experiences,
while holding high expectations for all.
Standard 2 Comments
Naena holds high expectations for the students she teachers. She is also able to develop, adapt, and
deliver instruction to address students' diverse learning strengths and needs.
Indicator 3.1 - Develops learning experiences that engage and support students as self-directed
learners who internalize classroom routines, expectations, and procedures.
Indicator 3.2 - Collaborates with students to establish a positive learning climate of openness,
respectful interactions, support, and inquiry.
Indicator 3.3 - Utilizes positive classroom management strategies, including the resources of time,
space, and attention, effectively.
Standard 3 Comments
Naena maintains a safe, positive, and respectful learning environment. She works to ensure students treat
each other with respect and interact in an appropriate and positive manner. During today's lesson, she
used a variety of classroom management strategies including verbal praise, eye contact, redirection,
precision commands, and brisk pacing. During guided practice, students were actively engaged and were
given an average of 4.2 opportunities to respond per minute with a verbal praise rate of 3.1 per minute.
Standard 4 Comments
Naena demonstrates accurate content knowledge while teaching her small-group lessons. She also aligned
her lesson plan with Utah Core Standards (Reading: Literature Standard 1) and student IEP goals
("Students will be able to use the text to retell the story.").
Indicator 5.1 - Uses data sources to assess the effectiveness of instruction and to make adjustments in
planning and instruction.
Indicator 5.2 - Documents student progress and provides descriptive feedback to student,
parent/guardian, and other stakeholders in a variety of ways.
Indicator 5.3 - Designs or selects pre-assessments, formative, and summative assessments in a variety
of formats that align to learning objectives and engage the learner in demonstrating knowledge and
skills.
Standard 5 Comments
Naena uses student data to evaluate progress and make instructional decisions. She also actively monitors
student learning throughout the lesson and responds to individual student needs as appropriate (e.g.,
Immediate corrective feedback is given to students who incorrectly responded to comprehension
questions). Student data are also used to monitor progress toward their IEP goals.
Indicator 6.1 - Demonstrates knowledge of the Utah Core Standards and references them in short- and
long-term planning.
Indicator 6.2 - Integrates cross-disciplinary skills into instruction to purposefully engage learners in
applying content knowledge.
Naena developed lessons that are meaningful and developmentally appropriate. All of her lesson plans are
aligned with Utah Core Standards.
Indicator 7.2 - Provides multiple opportunities for students to develop higher-order and meta-cognitive
skills.
Indicator 7.3 - Supports and expands each learner’s communication skills through reading, writing,
listening, and speaking.
Indicator 7.4 - Uses a variety of available and appropriate technology and resources to support
learning.
Indicator 7.5 - Develops learners’ abilities to find and use information to solve real-world problems
Standard 7 Comments
During today's lesson, Naena made adjustments to her instruction based on student responses. She also
used differential reinforcement and precision commands to help keep one student on task. She engaged
students through asking multiple questions, providing high rates of opportunities to respond and
appropriate verbal praise. In addition, she uses a variety of effective technology and resources to support
learning including the classroom SmartBoard, computer, and educational software.
Indicator 8 - Adapts and improves practice based on reflection and new learning.
Naena has been very receptive to feedback from her mentor teacher and college supervisor. She has
worked hard to apply this feedback to her classroom instruction. This was evident during today's lesson by
the improvement she made related to increasing student opportunities to respond and verbal praise rates.
Indicator 9.1 -Participates actively in decision-making processes, while building a shared culture that
affects the school and larger educational community.
Indicator 9.2 -Advocates for the learners, the school, the community, and the profession.
Standard 9 Comments
Naena has successfully maintained positive relationships with faculty members, students, and their parents.
She also actively worked to contribute to student success by responding to their individual concerns and
learning needs.
Indicator 10.1 - Is responsible for compliance with university policies, federal and state laws, State
Board of Education administrative rules, state assessment policies, local board policies, and
supervisory directives.
Yes
Indicator 10.2 -Is responsible for compliance with all requirements of State Board of Education Rule
R277-530 at all levels of teacher development
Yes
Standard 10 Comments
Naena demonstrated professionalism in all aspects of her work as a student teacher at Washington
Elementary.
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