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Assessing Applicant Dispositions

Assessing Applicant Dispositions. After today, you will be able to answer: What are dispositions? Why are they important to me? To students? How do I measure dispositions while interviewing?. Your Favorite Teacher. What is the first thing that comes to mind?. Your Favorite Teacher.

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Assessing Applicant Dispositions

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  1. Assessing Applicant Dispositions After today, you will be able to answer: What are dispositions? Why are they important to me? To students? How do I measure dispositions while interviewing?

  2. Your Favorite Teacher • What is the first thing that comes to mind?

  3. Your Favorite Teacher

  4. Your Favorite Teacher • He really enjoyed teaching and cared about students. • She looked for the good in each of us. • He could teach something and make it fun. • She held our interest with her lively, humorous manner and her thorough knowledge of the subject. • He believed in me. • She challenged us. • He saw us as unique and treated us with respect. • She really knew her subject and had a passion for it.

  5. Your Worst Teacher • What is the first thing that comes to mind?

  6. Your Worst Teacher

  7. Thought of the Day • Which would I prefer to hire: A teacher that is good or a teacher that is getting better? Why?

  8. Good to Great by Jim Collins • “Good is the enemy of great” • “In a good-to-great transformation, people are not your most important asset. The right people are. • Why try for greatness? • Doing something you love and care about • Doing something related to your interests and beliefs • Making a positive impact on others • Impossible to imagine not trying to make it great

  9. Favorite Teacher Characteristics? • Knowledge • Teaching Skills • Dispositions Findings from “Great Teachers, Great Memories” National Survey on Favorite Teachers

  10. Dispositions: Just What Are We Talking About? Dispositions are often defined as one’s natural mental and emotional outlook or mood, including: • attitudes, • beliefs, • interests, • appreciations, • values, and • modes of adjustment.

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