Module Overview

Transformational Change Through Dispositional Hiring Processes

What you will learn to do:

Develop essential skills and strategies that will enable you to implement dispositional hiring practices for systemic reform.

Module Overview:

Districts today face the challenge of developing quality school systems that must prepare all students to be career, college, and life ready. Considering the rate of technological, economic, and global change, this presents us with an unprecedented challenge in the history of public education. In order for a district to perform well in this complicated era of reduced support, rapid change, increasing accountability and standard-based reform, we have no choice but to use every resource to its maximum benefit. There is no resource more important than the people who directly touch the lives of students. This leads us to our “dispositional hypothesis”:

The most effective strategy for improving performance of students and school climate is to hire the right teachers and then invest in them to become more effective as people and in their jobs.

Module Objectives:

Answering the question: Why are dispositions important?
Building and assessing leadership capacity for transformation change through dispositional hiring practices
Learning strategies to train principals and school site-based councils to be dispositional raters
Designing questions for screening/recruiting based on selected dispositions
Developing pre-employment dispositions questions
Understanding the importance of dispositions using video examples of effective teachers

21st Century Superintendents - Planning for the Next Generation