School of Education Alert Forms on Professionalism are designed to provide faculty and staff a system to identify nonacademic behaviors or dispositions that indicate a student may not be successful in teaching. Students are expected to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions expected of beginning teachers. These expectations are set forth by the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC).

When a student acquires an alert, the Assistant Dean for Teacher Education will confer with the faculty/staff who filed the alert and will meet with the student to discuss corrective actions, including the possibility of dismissal from the Teacher Education Program. Except in very serious situations, two alerts must be received before a student case will be reviewed by a committee of teacher education faculty. All decisions related to disciplinary action can be appealed by the student using the School of Education’s Academic Standards Committee appeal procedures.