Teacher Education: Professional Disposition Assessment Form

  • Overview of Dispositions and Expectations

  • You are preparing for a profession that requires the highest norms of conduct. P-12 students will often emulate the professional beliefs and behaviors of their teachers who spend a large part of the day with them. Professional dispositions are the values, actions, attitudes, and beliefs of educators as they interact with students, families, community members, and professional colleagues. Professional dispositions are a vital element of professional preparation and are the expected behaviors of all educators.

    The expectations outlined in the Professional Dispositions Form apply to those you interact with in your placement community, as well as with faculty, staff and employees at Eastern Washington University. The Education faculty is committed to preparing you to enter the teaching profession. While our coursework focuses on content information and instructional methodology, successful teaching requires more than just academic knowledge.

    The following are the candidate dispositions required by the EWU School of Education initial teaching programs:
    Note: Each item must be checked to submit this form.

  • The Professional Dispositions Assessment Form is a pro-active communication instrument that may be used to guide preservice teachers' growth as professionals. If an issue of professional disposition arises, the education faculty will submit a referral form to the Committee for Admission, Recruitment, Retention and Transition (CARRT) team. A conference will be scheduled with the candidate and the CARRT team to discuss the issue(s). Plans for addressing or solving the issue(s) will be completed. If the problem has not been satisfactorily addressed, the candidate may fail the course in which the issue(s) arose, be removed from his/her placement or be dismissed from the program.
  • Candidate Agreement

  • Please enter your EWU ID#
  • I understand that if any concerns around disposition arise in my coursework and/or I lose my field placement due to disposition issues, I may be suspended from my placement for a minimum of one quarter, removed from the course for the quarter, or removed from the Education Program.

    I have read the Professional Dispositions Assessment Form and understand its use and purpose in the Department of Education.
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  • Leave the rest of the form blank if you are filling this out for Orientation, SPED 363, EDUC 201, EDUC 304, or EDUC 390

  • Placement Information

    The following information along with your name, email and current course enrollment will be sent to your mentor teacher for their reference when completing required forms.
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