Department of Teacher Education
Initial Programs Expected Dispositions
Dispositions Outcome:
A successful student demonstrates professional dispositions: adherence to professional ethics, collaboration, commitment to diversity, commitment to teaching, emotional maturity, initiative, responsibility, responsiveness to professional feedback, self-reflection, and student-focus.
Professional Dispositions are elaborated as follows:
1. Adherence to professional ethics: demonstrates adherence to standards of ethical conduct including academic honesty, confidentiality, etc.
2. Collaboration: works effectively with professional colleagues and other adults
3. Commitment to diversity: values multiple aspects of diversity; respects children and adults of various cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, social classes, abilities, political beliefs, etc.
4. Commitment to teaching: valuing the profession of teaching; belief one can make a difference; enthusiastic attitude regarding schools, teaching, students, and parents
5. Emotional maturity: deals with frustration appropriately, poised and professional in demeanor
6. Initiative: independence, going beyond what is given, seeking after knowledge and professional development, actively seeking solutions to problems
7. Responsibility: attendance, promptness, notification of emergencies, hands in materials on time, reliability when making commitments
8. Responsiveness to professional feedback: receptiveness and responsiveness to professional feedback
9. Self-reflection: reflects on and evaluates one's own experience and work, is willing and able to recognize difficulties or deficiencies in one's teaching
10. Student focus: focuses professional decision-making around student needs rather than personal preference, respects students as valued human beings