Assignment:
Your Individual Support Plan
Formulating a plan is the first step in meeting your career aspirations. As you begin planning your strategy for success, consider the position you hope to attain with your official studies in the field of education. It is important to have a plan and support its success. You begin by preparing, then you reflect and then you take action in meeting your ISP! Because you will be setting goals, you will revisit your ISP at critical points of your program. Let's get to planning!
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." (Michelangelo, as cited in Lopez, 2013))
Prepare
Formulating a plan is the first step in meeting your career aspirations. As you begin planning your strategy for success, be sure to read the following:
1. Newman, R. (2019). Teaching and learning in the 21st century: Connecting the dots (2nd ed.)
- Leading and Learning for Success
2. This lesson on individual career planning.
Reflect
As you consider your career goals in education, reflect on the following:
- The position you hope to attain.
- The key competencies needed for this position/industry.
- The barriers or obstacles that might challenge you accomplishing your goals.
- At least three goals you want to accomplish this year.
Content Instructions
1. Development Goals: Identify at least three professional development goals for your profession or a profession you hope to obtain in the future.
2. Development Activity, Support and Target Date: Identify development activities, support, and target dates, which will help you in developing as an education professional.
3. If the goals are for a profession, these can be hypothetical activities, support, and target dates.
4. Provide a summary for why you chose those goals and why they are important to you.
5. Use the example below as you write your career goals in education:
- Development Goal: Build my network by joining Ashford CHAMPS mentoring network.
- Development Activity: Attend quarterly virtual meetings
- Support: Ashford CHAMPS Mentors
- Target Date: By the end of the quarter