Qualities Districts Look
For When Hiring New Graduates as Teachers
Always Important
- Honesty and integrity
- Dependability/Reliability
- Effective oral communication skills
- Teaching competencies
- Enthusiasm / Cooperativeness
- An excellent role model
- Commitment to helping others
- Emotional and mental stability
- Common sense
- Positive attitude toward work
- Sense of responsibility
- Concern for others
- Understanding of classroom situation
- Adaptability to change/flexibility
Almost Always Important:
- Ability to get things done
- Initiative/Ambition
- Motivation to achieve
- Intelligence/mental alertness
- Desire to accept responsibility
- Good judgment
- Well-developed work habits
- Self-confidence
- Writing skills
- Courteousness
- High energy level
- Creative thinking skills
- Personality/Sociability
- Friendliness
- Possesses self-pride
- Public speaking capabilities
- Suitable/neat appearance
- Innovative ideas
- Decision-making abilities
- Physical health/fitness
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- Excellent student teaching experience
- Problem-solving skills
- Sense of humor
- Diplomacy/tactfulness
- Maturity/Self-Understanding
- Perseverance
- Responsiveness
- Team & time management skills
- Willingness to seek help
- Independence/Self-reliance
- Willingness to take extra assignments
- Willingness to continue education
- Staying power/stability
- Directness
- Leadership skills
- Cohesiveness—Ability to follow group decisions regarding
organization's
way of doing things
- Tactical and strategic planning
- Previous career-related experience
- Range of interests
- Career aspirations
- Appropriate establishment views
- Willingness to relocate
Sometimes Important:
- Interest in current events
- Competitive abilities
- Attitudes towards one's own family
- Mathematical skill/computer literacy
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Ability to delegate to others
- Research skills
- Budgeting abilities
- Foreign language competencies
- Prior knowledge of school district
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