Professional dispositions are the values, commitments, and professional ethics that
influence behaviors toward students, families, colleagues, and communities. These
dispositions are influential qualities that effective school counselors should have.
Additionally, professional dispositions affect student learning, motivation, and
development as well as a school counselor’s professional growth.
Part 1: Dispositions Self-Assessment Survey
After reviewing the “Professional Dispositions of Learners,” complete the “Professional
Dispositions Self-Assessment Survey” located in the Class Resources.
Part 2: Video Submission
Based on your understanding of your dispositions, respond to the following questions
in a 3-5 minute Zoom video submission:
What qualities, behaviors, and values are indicative of a professional school
counselor? What standards guide your thinking and actions?
What dispositions do you recognize as strengths that will make you a
successful school counselor?
How do the dispositions demonstrate your ability to understand other
cultures, genders, and learning differences to build stronger relationships
with students and families?
What dispositions do you find as areas of growth as you enter the school as
a first-year school counselor?
How do you anticipate using feedback from your annual performance
evaluations, observations, and data on student performance to adjust your
dispositions and teaching practices to benefit learning?
Show professionalism in your speech and appearance.
Refer to the Zoom information located in the Topic Resources to complete your
recording.
At the bottom of the self-assessment survey, be sure to include the link to your Zoom
video.
A transcript of your video is not required.
*This assignment is recommended as a representative artifact in your e-Portfolio.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to
become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite
technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
This assignment is informed by the following CACREP Standards:
2.F.1.b. The multiple professional roles and functions of counselors across specialty
areas, and their relationships with human service and integrated behavioral health
care systems, including interagency and interorganizational collaboration and
consultation.
2.F.1.d. The role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of
the profession.
2.F.1.k. Strategies for personal and professional self-evaluation and implications for
practice.
5.G.2.a. School counselor roles as leaders, advocates, and systems change agents in
P-12 schools.
5.G.2.f. Competencies to advocate for school counseling roles.
5.G.3.n. Use of accountability data to inform decision making.
