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Reflective Practice and Career Goals

Michael Whitener

Reflective Practice and Career Goals

As a graduate student, having great ambitions and aspirations on being a professional reading and literacy expert, I hold much importance to reflecting on major opportunities that would enhance my successful fulfillment of these issues. Consequently, reflecting on strengths, purpose, and beliefs is what I regard highly as these would serve as my support foundation towards the probable challenges. As it is known to many, both professional and educational environments are filled with hindrances and anybody aspiring to go through this path has to face them. Therefore, in efforts to outdo these challenges, I will conduct sufficient reflection about my career objectives, professional purposes, professional attributes and outcomes, and developmental resources and techniques. I hope to fulfill my professional aspirations by sufficiently outlining what is expected of me and my responsibilities.

Professional Purpose and Career Goals

From a professional perspective, every individual is mandated to define their purpose even before formulating their career objectives. For me, I feel that well-outlined professional purposes and career objectives help enhance educational and career focus in more demanding circumstances and situations. It is within my knowledge that defining my professional purpose does not entail describing my attributes but rather discovering and developing future purpose in terms of professionalism (Lampe et al., 2020). For me, my major professional purpose to use skills and knowledge in motivating and inspiring others as far as reading and literacy are concerned. I would want to aid others achieve their full potentials. My career goal is to become a professional reading and literacy expert. In this career, many expectations lie in initiating pieces of training, defining the subject matter, and designing technical writing. This would be complemented with contemporary development and learning theories like the recently adopted eLearning which from my perspective is not all about copying and pasting from sources. This aspect is one of my motivating field towards pursuing this profession.

In my career endeavors, I have discovered that my theological educational backgrounds have no significance in terms of teaching and preparing me for the development of my career goals specifically. I quickly discovered that developing career and purposes entailed a bunch of developmental factors ranging from classwork to field practice. This motivated me to pursue a Master’s in Reading and Literacy is one of the best local university. Consequently, I still wish to develop within the institution and acquire my doctorate in the same career field. In a few years, I would like to have acquired adequate career skills and be incorporated into a team of professional managers of learning programs. I would love to get largely involved in initiatives and programs as this is what I regard as my passion and purpose.

Professional Attributes and Professional Growth

As a new graduate and a continuing student, I need to build find and develop relevant values that my future employer would be seeking in me. I am aware that my field of profession is filled with competition and I will want to hone certain employability skills. From my perspective, I will be seeking to have transferable skills as well as strong command skills upon completing my professional career pursuit. This would go extents of describing my effective behaviors and expected characteristics. First, I exhibit both good mental and physical ableness, adequate auditory, and visual acuity as well as sufficient motor energy. Secondly, I take much pride in my presentation and appearance. This implies that I am capable of expressing my strong leadership qualities, sticking to detailed schedules, and handling complex responsibilities as far as my profession is concerned. My opportunities for growth would be drawn from volunteering and professional developmental pieces of training.

Additionally, research conducted by McIlveen & Patton, (2010), points out that an educator needs to be a lifelong learner for three main reasons. First, this attribute helps in conquering challenges where the lifelong learning mentality helps in treating challenges and mistakes as part of the learning process rather than failures. Secondly, this aspect would help in being innovative in improving learning outcomes through collaborative and creative teaching methods. Lastly, lifelong learning educators act as role models for their students by setting examples to students by practicing what they teach. Moreover, I would consider certain organizations, activities, and resources that are relevant to professional development and strengthening skills. For instance, I would consider psychological institutions like APA to instill developmental trust. The most vital resource and activity that I strongly believe will strengthen my skill is coaching and training that reignites and compliments the previous knowledge.

Time Management Strategies

I have to admit that being a student pursuing a Ph.D. is important to me. One aspect that I will have to manage and balance effectively is time. I also understand that the doctorate program entails a long duration of research, and this implies that time management would either improve or fix skills in this profession. Time management will also help in balancing studies and other life aspects. The first strategy that I would employ is maintaining focus on the research program as a way of identifying my priorities and mapping my ways to them. This is an exercise that I find useful in producing long-term plans and plotting them out during the entire duration (Adair, 2009). My second strategy would be involving teams. In this regard, I would seek to find early peer reviews for any revisions and delegate research responsibilities and divide them among the team members so that no external distractions would exist in the environment.

Conclusion

I can summarize that having the right sense of purpose in my life has essentially served my well-being. It is also understandable that one has to continuously search and discover purpose sense in careers as circumstances change. Additionally, it is important to keep my time busy working my life impacting activities as opposed to merely gaining money. By having a sense of professional purpose, I develop a feeling of being innovative, committed, and passionate about serving my community any organization that may be interested in my services. Above all, my ability to identify my professional attributes, growth enablers, and efficient time management strategies, have motivated my urge of pursuing reading and literacy as a career profession.

References

Adair, J. (2009). Effective time management: How to save time and spend it wisely. Pan Macmillan.

Lampe, A., Jewell, V. D., Dunn, R., Lawson, T., Stewart, E., & Linhart, J. (2020). Career Goals and Student Perceptions of a Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Doctoral Experiential Component. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 4(2), 11.

McIlveen, P., & Patton, W. (2010). My career chapter as a tool for reflective practice. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 10(3), 147-160.