Sunday, January 11, 2009
Healthy Attitude + Positive Actions = Good Teacher Dispositions
The quality of a good teacher is measured in many ways. One very important way is the disposition each teacher develops as they learn to teach. This disposition assessment occurs in every teacher education program in the nation. It is a must for any good teacher education program. It is required of them by their state and accreditation organization.
Many of you come into our MAT program possessing these qualities, and some of the qualities are developed over time as you learn to be a teacher. It is our job to assess these qualities continuously from admittance into the teacher education program through licensure.
As you learned during your orientation, we have a rubric that your professor uses to assess these dispositions. Some of your professors may have reviewed it with you. They may have asked you to self-assess and have you share the results with them.
This assessment will be used for every course. It is a formative assessment during the course, and it becomes a summative assessment at the end of the course. If there are any unacceptable qualities that manifest during the course, it will register on your summative assessment. It will be duly noted there. If patterns of unacceptable disposition develop over time without improvement, then your status in the MAT program will be jeopardized.
We have modified the indicators of rubric we gave you at the orientation to better reflect those qualities you need cultivate.
Let’s take a look at the first one:
Criteria: Collaborative
Above Expectation
• take the lead when working with others
• creates an optimal learning environment in groups and class activities
Expected-Meets Standard
• willing to work with others
• plans, executes and finishes assigned tasks within the group on-time and thoroughly
Needs Improvement-Below Standard
• resistant to working with others
• fails to complete or is consistently late with group assigned tasks
Read this disposition carefully-maybe two or three times to get familiar with it. It occurs in every class the minute you enter it.
The next post will discuss the next disposition: Reflective.
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This was very interesting, and its nice to see it all laid out.
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This is a great piece for us to refer back to througout our program. It provides clarity in that we know what's expected of us and it keeps the expectations high!Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThis was a really great idea Henry! You have really been learning in EDUC 5575!!
ReplyDeleteWe all need reminders, and constant reminders, and then again, even more reminders of why we are in this program...I know I will be referring back to this post often and I look forward to the ones to come...We will stay focussed and on task!!!...Thank You, Henry!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the blog! I enjoy the group work that we have been doing thus far in the program! I'm thrilled to see that someone is assessing us while we are in these groups. Thanks for the updated modifications.
ReplyDeleteGood post Henry!. I read it a couple times, it was rewarded for me. They are advices that we already know, but it is good that somebody reminds you to keep on track and never give up. I am going to keep in mind specially the number one you mentioned because sometimes I feel that I couldn,t make it all through the program.
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