Identity as an Educator

The Identity as an Educator domain involves the actualization of professional ethics, reflection, personal values, and beliefs into practice. This domain is assessed based on students’ abilities to (1) use professional ethics to identify and recover from mistakes in an educational environment; (2) reflect on experiences that take place in culturally diverse educational settings; and (3) embed personal values and beliefs into an articulated vision for their future career.

Course: EDU 304: The Bridge Between Coursework, Identity, and Career

Description: Individual Assignment - Motivation Vision Board-

• Summary: Create a vision board to develop a personal plan for success for one selected target job.

• Purpose: Justify the selection of your future education-related profession with reflections on course content and experiences.

Representation: Through this work, I was able to make explicit references to previous learning and apply in an innovative way that knowledge and those skills to comprehend and perform in novel situations.

Application: In this experience, I had to create a vision board using the 9 tips from Chapter 6 of the course textbook as a guide: (1) Find Mentors; (2) Bring Out the Best in Yourself; (3) Build Your Self-Esteem; (4) Chart Your Life; (5) Create Your Own Opportunities; (6) Invest in Planning; (7) Make a Change; (8) Motivate Yourself Using Loss Aversion; and (9)Turn Work Into Play, which will be useful when I lead within an non-profit organization.