Dispositions Self Reflection Paper

Dispositions Self-Reflection

After scoring myself on the Dispositions Rubric, I based my answers on what I thought best described my personality. All of my answers may seem like I gave myself a perfect score; however, I realize that I still have the potential to grow in all of the disposition areas with more experiences that I get in the classrooms. My values and beliefs played a huge role in how I scored myself.

I scored myself a value of 3.00 in the disposition area of caring. I believe that I look for the best in others, consider their point of view, am caring and respectful, and I am conscious of not being biased towards any student’s race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, or language. Here is a quote from my Ethnicity Diversity Mission Statement paper in Professor Moser’s class this semester. “As a future educator, I intend to engage with people of diversity with the same love and kindness as I would outside of my career/profession. For

example, I would be conscious of not being biased towards a certain race, gender, or ethnicity. I would treat all of my students and employees with the same equality, fairness, and respect.” Professor Moser always talks about treating others as if you were apart of their culture group and I couldn’t agree more.
I chose to rate myself a value of 3.00 in the disposition area of collaborative. I feel as though I work well with others to accomplish and obtain a certain goal. This semester in Professor Moser’s Ethnicity class, I was assigned a group project. During the project, I took on the leadership role of the group and collaboratively worked with others to accomplish the task. However, I tend to want to do all the work that the group is assigned and not spread out the work evenly and hold others to the ability of work that I would like the project to be done in. So that is one area of improvement that I can work on over the years.
I chose to rate myself a value of 3.00 in the disposition area of competent. I feel as though I have always used my problem-solving strategies to the best of my ability when a problem arises. I believe that I participate in class activities to my best ability. For example, when a problem arose in our group project I was able to divert the problem to me best ability. The problem was that no one in our group knew how to video tape an interview and get it on a PowerPoint slide. I took the skills that I had learning in Professor Langhal’s Educational Technology class to do just that.
I gave myself a value of 3.00 in the disposition area of creative/innovative. My approach to learning new things is creative and I can come up with alternative ways of looking at things. I like how Professor Baer creates new and exciting ways to incorporate books into her criteria. This year in our Oiler Experience class, we did literature circles reading books based off the topic of bullying. This was a creative way to teach about bullying and it was very influential for all of the students. I read a book called End Game, which was about a boy who had been bullied at school and at his home from his dad. He has no one to turn to and things ended very badly for him and for other classmates of his.
I chose to give myself a value of 2.00 on flexibility. I respond appropriately to changes that are unplanned and I feel as though I remain calm in stressful situations although I can always continue to work on remaining calm and flexible. Professor Recker always talks about being flexible and that, as teachers, that is one of the things that we constantly have to deal with. I couldn’t agree more with her. I do like having a schedule to follow and I plan out each of my days in the morning, so I have gotten to be accepting of when plans change.
Being honest and trustworthy are some of my main goals in life. That is why I gave myself a value of 3.00. I feel as though putting others first in all considerations is one of the most important values a person can have. I take a high value of being honest because I think that honesty is the best policy. I know, from past experiences, that usually lying to family or friends causes distrust and that is the hardest to earn back. So telling the truth is overall the best possibility, even if you have done something wrong.
As for my knowledgeable ability, I chose to rate myself a value of 3.00. I feel as though I go above what is expected of me in the content of knowledge. I strive to do my best on every assignment and I feel as though slacking off is not an option for me. I want to become the best teacher that I possibly can. So if that means staying late to help a student, or reading on material that I am going to cover in class, then I will do all of those things in order for my students to excel in learning.
I chose to rate myself a value of 3.00 in the area of motivation. Ever since I have started classes with the COE faculty and staff, I knew that the major that I chose was the best for me. Knowing that now, I will work to become the best teacher that I can be for my students. There is an old saying, “You get what you put into it.” So I say to that when it comes to my future profession as a teacher, “Let’s go all in.”
I chose to rate myself a value of 3.00 in the positive disposition area. I believe that my positivity in the classroom will greatly benefit my students. It will make them excited to learn and not come into school with a negative look on learning. I also believe that I will treat all of my students with the same fairness, respect, and acceptance. Some of my least favorite teachers were the ones who picked favorites. No kid likes being treated unfair. I will do my best to make sure that is not the case in my future classroom.
For the final disposition area, I chose to rate myself a 3.00 on reflectiveness.

When I make decisions I believe that I am purposeful, thoughtful, and mindful. My ability to reflect is based on my faith. In my own reflectiveness, or examination of conscious, I examine all the values that I could work on in myself and then makes changes to improve on them. I expect to take that skill on to my future profession when I am reflecting over lessons or how the day went and what I could have done better to teach the material to my students.

Overall, I know that I still have some growing to do in order to become the best teacher that I can be. I can take the reflection and ratings into consideration and work on the areas of dispositions in which I think that I need the most work in. For example, knowledge and flexibility are the top two areas of disposition that I could improve in. I am excited to see how much I will grow over the years and I will continue to work on all of these areas of

dispositions.