How Do Teacher Preparation Programs Promote Desired Dispositions in Candidates?

This article describes the results of a national survey of teacherpreparation programs in the United States. It asks three major questions: (a) Whatstrategies do programs use to promote and teach the dispositions they desire inpreservice teachers? (b) What strategies are used relatively, commonly? and (c) How doinstitutions perceive the effectiveness of the strategies they use to promote and teachdispositions? The purpose is to fill a void in the scholarship about the promotion ofdesired dispositions, the means by which this is done, and institutions’ perceptions ofperceived effectiveness, not to recommend or compare strategies