The College of Education (COE) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s teaching licensure programs aim to prepare all teacher candidates with professional dispositions rooted in Hawaiian language, culture, history, and place-based learning. The Assessment Leadership Group developed a culturally relevant assessment tool to evaluate teacher candidates’ professional dispositions that include self-assessment ratings and self-analysis narratives related to loina Hawaiʻi (Indigenous Hawaiian values) of kuleana (responsibility), noʻonoʻo haʻawina (reflection), alu like (collaboration), pilina (relationships) and aloha ʻāina (love for the land). This poster session will present the development process, the components of the tool, the results, and the plan to use the assessment tool as a pedagogical device to advance culturally relevant education in the COE. By ʻAlohilani Okamura, Jamie Simpson Steele, Jaimie McMullen, and Jerae Kelly
Recommended Citation:
Okamura, ʻA., Steele, J., McMullen, J. & Kelly, J. (2025, March 24-28) E Hoʻoulu Kākou: Teacher Education and Professional Dispositions [Poster presentation]. Assessment for Curricular Improvement Poster Exhibit, Assessment and Curriculum Support Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.