Consequently, GTQ coaching is relationship based and focuses on supporting teachers by engaging in critical analysis of practice, learning tools, and developing dispositions needed to continuously improve practice in support of better child learning and development.
When educators have clear goals, high expectations and knowledge of the skills and dispositions needed for learning and successful transition to school, children make more progress in literacy, numeracy, independence, cooperation, and social development (Thorpe et al., 2004).
But if this is correct, then it looks like blame's characteristic dispositions need not be present even in those who are genuinely and sincerely committed to moral norms.
The philosopher, it turns out, is the one human type provided with all of the dispositions needed to actualize the natural, moral, intellectual, and practical virtues that bring about human flourishing in the fullest sense.
Our emotional dispositions need to be re-configured so that we do not merely "affect" the sentiments of the impartial spectator but "adopt" those sentiments: identify ourselves with, become, the impartial spectator, insofar as that is possible (147).
That is to say, human well-being (eudaimonia) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues (aretê: 'excellence') are the requisite skills and dispositions needed to attain it.
They are acquired through deeper learning experiences and are exactly the skills and dispositions needed for future success in post-secondary school, workforce, and in life.
Those of a nervous disposition need to stay away.
Besides, those who give the most subtle diagnoses may not have the problem-solving disposition needed to come up with concrete, practical recommendations.
Of particular note are Book One (The Book of Knowledge), which sets forth the philosophic foundations of Jewish belief, a theory of moral traits or dispositions, the need to study the Torah, the laws concerning idolatry, and the importance of repentance.
