Dispositions

The School of Education values collaboration, emotional maturity, flexibility, honesty and integrity, professionalism, respect, responsibility, and reverence for learning.

These values are indicated by respectful action towards University faculty and classmates in classrooms and on-campus and towards children always. We believe that a candidate’s ability to behave professionally and respectfully at all times is diagnostic of his/her ability to behave professionally and effectively as an educator. We, therefore, expect candidates to model as graduate students the same behaviors they will follow in their own practice as educators, in and out of classrooms. Professional behavior and dispositions are assessed throughout a student’s program at Manhattanville. We expect and will observe and assess professionalism and respectful behavior at all times.

Any instance of unprofessional behavior which is not immediately rectified will be reported to and recorded by the appropriate Department Chair and/or the Office of Graduate Advising. Candidates who exhibit a serious, documented lack of professional dispositions will be subject to a range of sanctions including, but not limited to, a course grade being lowered, failure of the course, mandatory counseling and/or other required remediation, restrictions from activities or privileges, denial of the University recommendation for teacher or leader certification, removal from student or supervised teaching or denial or delay of placement for student teaching, and/or suspension or expulsion from the School of Education.

Please refer to the Manhattanville University Code of Community Conduct at the Manhattanville University website for the University’s policies on harassment, bias acts, and sexual misconduct, and confidentiality and academic freedom.