Professional Disposition Unacceptable (1) Approaching (2) Target (3) Recommendations/ Qualities (PDQ) Categories Commendations 1. Professional Appearance the school meets the meets the school dress ☐Inconsistently ☐Generally ☐Consistently dress code school dress code and maintains code and maintains professional professional appearance appearance 2. Attendance absence/excessive Generally punctual with no meets expectations for ☐Chronic ☐ ☐Consistently tardiness; or absence(s) without absences without prior notice attendance and punctuality. Any notice absence is approved in advance. 3.Professional be consistently counted meets deadlines and meets deadlines, keeps ☐Cannot ☐Generally ☐Consistently Responsibility upon to meet deadlines or keep keeps professional commitments professional commitments to professional commitments to to colleagues and students colleagues and students colleagues and students 4. Ethical Behavior without regard for tact demonstrates demonstrates ☐Speaks ☐Generally ☐Consistently and/or confidentiality; has tactfulness and/or confidentiality; tactfulness and/or confidentiality; difficulty maintaining professional generally maintains professional maintains professional boundaries boundaries boundaries 5. Response to Feedback only procedural questions; questions that are both questions that are both ☐Asks ☐Asks ☐Asks resistance to critique and procedural and reflective; accepts procedural and reflective; invites input regarding performance critique and regarding critique and input regarding performance in a generally performance in a positive manner and positive manner; generally acts acts upon that feedback within his/her upon feedback when prompted practice 6. Reflective Practitioner not take responsibility and makes small in a realistic way; ☐Does ☐Self-evaluates ☐Self-evaluates with integrity; blames others changes that are generally makes thoughtful changes based procedural upon reflection; views teaching as a learning process 7. Collaboration professional with others in a positive group participant; works with ☐Avoids ☐Strong collaboration and/or detracts from way; contributes to group success; others receiving input and contributing a collaborative culture; gossips minimizes gossip; generally willing to group success; is loyal to those who about colleagues; and/or tends to to grow are not present; embraces growth be openly critical of others 8. Professional Initiative the minimum required demonstrates initiative; is ☐Does ☐Generally ☐Demonstrates work at the prompting of initiative and enthusiasm for enthusiastic a variety of endeavors supervisors; lacks initiative or various endeavors resists various endeavors
Professional Disposition Qualities (PDQ) Categories Unacceptable (1) Approaching (2) Target (3) Recommendations/ Commendations 1. Professional Appearance ☐Inconsistently the school dress code ☐Generally meets the school dress code and maintains professional appearance ☐Consistently meets the school dress code and maintains professional appearance 2. Attendance ☐Chronic absence/excessive tardiness; or absence(s) without notice ☐ Generally punctual with no absences without prior notice ☐Consistently meets expectations for attendance and punctuality. Any absence is approved in advance. 3.Professional Responsibility ☐Cannot be consistently counted upon to meet deadlines or keep professional commitments to colleagues and students ☐Generally meets deadlines and keeps professional commitments to colleagues and students ☐Consistently meets deadlines, keeps professional commitments to colleagues and students 4. Ethical Behavior ☐Speaks without regard for tact and/or confidentiality; has difficulty maintaining professional boundaries ☐Generally demonstrates tactfulness and/or confidentiality; generally maintains professional boundaries ☐Consistently demonstrates tactfulness and/or confidentiality; maintains professional boundaries 5. Response to Feedback ☐Asks only procedural questions; resistance to critique and input regarding performance ☐Asks questions that are both procedural and reflective; accepts critique and regarding performance in a generally positive manner; generally acts upon feedback when prompted ☐Asks questions that are both procedural and reflective; invites critique and input regarding performance in a positive manner and acts upon that feedback within his/her practice 6. Reflective Practitioner ☐Does not take responsibility with integrity; blames others ☐Self-evaluates and makes small changes that are generally procedural ☐Self-evaluates in a realistic way; makes thoughtful changes based upon reflection; views teaching as a learning process 7. Collaboration ☐Avoids professional collaboration and/or detracts from a collaborative culture; gossips about colleagues; and/or tends to be openly critical of others with others in a positive way; contributes to group success; minimizes gossip; generally willing to grow ☐Strong group participant; works with others receiving input and contributing to group success; is loyal to those who are not present; embraces growth 8. Professional Initiative ☐Does the minimum required work at the prompting of supervisors; lacks initiative or resists various endeavors ☐Generally demonstrates initiative and enthusiasm for various endeavors ☐Demonstrates initiative; is enthusiastic a variety of endeavors
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