PROFESSIONAL

ATTRIBUTES
YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR STUDENTS.

This is the most professional of all behaviors.

YOU RELATE TO/WITH YOUR
STUDENTS
Teaching starts with a relationship.
 You must accept your students
unconditionally.
YOU
DEMONSTRATE
UNCONDITIONA Your acceptance of them is not
L POSITIVE performance-based.
REGARD (UPR)
FOR YOUR You always give value and respect to all
STUDENTS, individuals, including students.
YOUR
COLLEAGUES,
AND YOURSELF.
YOU PREPARE AND ARE PREPARED.
You are prepared to teach them each day.
YOU ENGAGE IN PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL REFLECTION.

Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to
learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned.
YOU ARE WILLING TO CHANGE
AND TO GROW.
You do not see your current state as a teacher or human as an end
state.
An investment in yourself is the wisest
sort of investment.

YOU INVEST
IN HUMANS.
What is good for the teacher is good
for the student.
You allow your whole self to be present
in your teaching.
YOU ARE
FULLY
PRESENT IN
YOUR
When you are fully present in your TEACHING
teaching, teaching is fully present in your
being. AND BEING.
YOU ALLOW
• You are not simply your
STUDENTS TO topic or your role.
SEE YOU.
YOU SEEK TO
Seek first to understand, then
UNDERSTAND. to be understood.
Standing up for what you believe and
speaking out is not always easy.
YOU STAND
UP FOR
WHAT YOU
BELIEVE
In this way, you will be agents of change.
We are going to have a great year
learning together!