Columbus State University Teacher Candidate Dispositions Assessment The following seven dispositional domains will be assessed by faculty, staff, and cooperating teachers at various points during the program. Numbers in parentheses refer to the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) principles addressed. Example behaviors operationalize each dispositional domain. This list is meant to illustrate the domain, but it is not intended to be comprehensive. Example behaviors may or may not be weighted equally in the determination of the dispositional domain rating. Disposition Unacceptable Needs Improvement Proficient Exemplary Proficient is the expected In addition to meeting level of performance. the requirements for Proficient… Legal & Ethical Does not demonstrate a Inconsistently Adequately demonstrates a Consistently Conduct (9) clear understanding of demonstrates a clear clear understanding of legal demonstrates a clear legal and moral understanding of legal and moral obligations of the understanding of legal obligations of the and moral obligations of profession which includes and moral obligations profession which the profession which integrity and honesty; of the profession which includes integrity and includes integrity and includes integrity and honesty; honesty; AND honesty;

AND/OR AND/OR adequately exhibits ethical AND conduct by meeting does not exhibit ethical inconsistently exhibits established standards; consistently exhibits conduct by meeting ethical conduct by ethical conduct by established standards; meeting established AND meeting established standards; standards; AND/OR adequately maintains AND/OR confidentiality of student AND does not maintain records, parent confidentiality of student inconsistently maintains communications, and consistently maintains records, parent confidentiality of private professional confidentiality of communications, or student records, parent communications student records, parent private professional communications, or communications, and communications private professional private professional communications communications Interactions with Does not interact or Inconsistently interacts Adequately interacts and Consistently interacts Others (3, 5, 10) establish an effective and establishes an establishes an effective and establishes an rapport with others effective rapport with rapport with others effective rapport with appropriately, others appropriately, appropriately, respectfully, others appropriately, respectfully, or respectfully, or and professionally using respectfully, and professionally using professionally using appropriate language, voice, professionally using appropriate language, appropriate language, and tone; appropriate language, voice, and tone; voice, and tone; voice, and tone; AND AND/OR AND/OR AND adequately does not inconsistently acknowledges perspectives consistently acknowledge acknowledges and regularly seeks acknowledges perspectives and/or seeks perspectives or opportunities to perspectives and opportunities to inconsistently seeks collaboratively continuously seeks collaboratively opportunities to work/interact with all opportunities to work/interact with all collaboratively individuals with respect and collaboratively individuals with respect work/interact with all consideration to achieve work/interact with all and consideration to individuals with respect common goals individuals with respect achieve common goals and consideration to and consideration to achieve common goals achieve common goals

Reliability (9) Does not meet or is not Inconsistently meets or Adequately meets and is Consistently meets and punctual for deadlines, is punctual for punctual for deadlines, is punctual for professional activities, or deadlines, professional professional activities, and deadlines, professional requests; activities, or requests; requests; activities, and requests;

AND/OR AND/OR AND AND

does not make prior inconsistently makes adequately makes prior consistently makes arrangements with prior arrangements with arrangements with prior arrangements with instructor/supervisor instructor/supervisor instructor/supervisor when instructor/supervisor when absence is when absence is absence is necessary; when absence is necessary; necessary; necessary; AND AND/OR AND/OR AND adequately does not inconsistently maintains active and consistently maintain active or maintains active or focused participation; maintains active and focused participation; focused participation; focused participation; AND AND/OR AND/OR AND adequately asks proactive does not ask proactive inconsistently asks questions consistently asks questions proactive questions proactive questions Professional Does not exhibit Inconsistently exhibits Adequately exhibits Consistently exhibits Appearance & appropriate attire and appropriate attire and appropriate attire and appropriate attire and Demeanor (9) hygiene; hygiene; hygiene; hygiene;

AND/OR AND/OR AND AND

does not act in a mature, inconsistently acts in a adequately acts in a mature, consistently acts in a professional manner or mature, professional professional manner and mature, professional maintains emotional manner or maintains maintains emotional manner and maintains control; emotional control; control; emotional control;

AND/OR AND/OR AND AND

does not display inconsistently displays adequately displays consistently displays confidence, composure, confidence, composure, confidence, composure, confidence, composure, positive attitude or positive attitude or positive attitude and positive attitude and initiative initiative initiative initiative Commitment to Does not demonstrate Inconsistently Adequately demonstrates Consistently Student Learning (1, and advocate the belief demonstrates and and advocates the belief demonstrates and 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10) that all students can learn advocates the belief that that all students can learn advocates the belief and does not adapt the all students can learn while adapting the that all students can instruction to meet while adapting the instruction to meet various learn while adapting the various needs and instruction to meet needs and abilities; instruction to meet abilities; various needs and various needs and abilities; AND abilities; AND/OR AND/OR adequately demonstrates AND does not accountability for student demonstrate inconsistently learning and development consistently accountability for demonstrates demonstrates student learning and accountability for accountability for development student learning and student learning and development development

Commitment to Does not listen to or use Inconsistently listens to Adequately listens to and Consistently listens to Improvement (6, 9) feedback from or uses feedback from uses feedback from and uses feedback from instructors, cooperating instructors, cooperating instructors, cooperating instructors, cooperating teachers, peers, or teachers, peers, or teachers, peers, and students teachers, peers, and students to improve students to improve to improve practice students to improve practice; practice; practice

AND/OR AND/OR

makes excuses, at times makes excuses, defenses, or justifications defenses, or for deficiencies justifications for deficiencies Commitment to the Does not follow Inconsistently follows Adequately follows Consistently follows Profession (9) appropriate protocols appropriate protocols appropriate protocols when appropriate protocols when seeking solutions when seeking solutions seeking solutions to when seeking solutions to problems; to problems; problems; to problems;

AND/OR AND/OR AND AND

does not value inconsistently values adequately values consistently values opportunities for opportunities for opportunities for opportunities for networking with others networking with others networking with others in networking with others in the field; in the field; the field; in the field;

AND/OR AND/OR AND AND

does not use appropriate inconsistently uses adequately uses appropriate consistently uses language conventions in appropriate language language conventions in appropriate language communications both conventions in communications both oral conventions in oral and written; communications both and written; communications both oral and written; oral and written; AND/OR AND AND/OR AND does not adequately demonstrates demonstrate flexibility inconsistently flexibility and consistently and responsiveness; demonstrates flexibility responsiveness; demonstrates flexibility and responsiveness; and responsiveness; AND/OR AND AND/OR AND does not engage in adequately engages in appropriate use of inconsistently engages appropriate use of personal consistently engages in personal electronic in appropriate use of electronic devices and appropriate use of devices and social personal electronic social media personal electronic media; devices and social devices and social media; media AND/OR AND/OR undermines colleagues at times undermines colleagues

Comments:

Faculty Signature: ______Date: ______

Cooperating Teacher Signature: ______Date: ______

Student Signature: ______Date: ______