Admission to Clinical Practice (Residency I, II, or Student Teaching)

The information requested below will be used in determining the teacher candidate’s qualifications for entry into Residency/Student Teaching. You have been asked by the candidate listed below to evaluate him/her regarding their dispositions for the Teacher Education licensure program. It is assumed that your current or former contact with this candidate provides sufficient information to evaluate him/her in areas of collaboration, communication, scholarship, respect, responsibility, and reflection. If that contact time is NOT sufficient for a rating, please consider further meeting(s) with this candidate so that you can fully ascertain the competency levels of this individual. It is appropriate for raters to ask for documentation by the candidate to prove competencies in areas that may not have been "observed" by you, the rater.

If further clarification for sufficient ratings is not possible, this candidate will be asked by the Office of Teacher Education to secure supplementary disposition assessment ratings from additional raters.

A disposition assessment is flagged for review by the Office of Teacher Education under the following conditions:

• Any rating of “1 - Below Expectations”.
• A rating of “N/O - Not Observed” in more than 50% of each area.
• More than five “N/O - Not Observed” ratings overall.
• Comments indicating areas of concern or improvement not addressed in areas evaluated on the form.

When rating the teacher candidate, please use the following criteria:

• 3 - Exceeds Expectations: The candidate goes beyond what is required, puts forth maximum effort, and consistently demonstrates effective and outstanding behaviors in the assessed area.
• 2 - Meets Expectations: The candidate sufficiently meets expectations and demonstrates effective behaviors in the assessed area.
• 1 - Below Expectations: The candidate puts forth little effort and rarely demonstrates competency in completing necessary requirements and/or effective behavior in the assessed area. Improvement is needed and should be addressed.

This information will be available to the Teacher Education Committee, if needed, and will be available to the teacher candidate for review upon his/her request as it is considered to be part of their academic record.

The Office of Teacher Education sincerely appreciates your participation in this assessment process and ask that you do not evaluate what you have not sufficiently assessed. We request that if you rate a candidate as "Below Expectations" you provide an explanation for that rating.

For additional information, please contact the Office of Teacher Education (teachereducation@tntech.edu).