Career Goals and Aspirations Stirling Archibald School of Business, Liberty University. My career goals focus on helping me acquire the skills to best influence others in a positive way. I find great joy in serving others and empowering them to improve themselves. Servant leadership principles reflect my own aspirations by putting the emphasis of decisions on the betterment of others (Spears, 2023). In order to best help others, I have dedicated my life to a career in education because I believe that quality education is an essential part of the foundation for a happy, fulfilling, and successful life. My career path has been enjoyable up to this point. I have worked in multiple educational settings with increasing levels of responsibility …show more content…
The work I do each day allows me to learn and develop the skills necessary to progress on my career path. In order to best help others in the field of education, I believe that I must seek to improve my understanding and abilities. The long-term goals I have for my career include acquiring my doctorate degree, publishing writings to assist leaders, and improving education quality and access, especially to underserved populations. My short-term career goals are smaller steps to achieve those goals, such as taking this course, attending professional development training, and working diligently within my current professional position to assist others and cultivate my current abilities. The DSL program will assist me in achieving my aforementioned goals by providing me with quality educational teachers, mentors, experiences, and opportunities to develop. Additionally, the DSL program will increase my ability to perform research, write proficiently, and lead effectively. All of these skills are valuable to my professional career as I use them each day in my current role and will continue to use them in future roles as well. Each course …show more content…
Karaman and Jei (2019) describe many of the benefits of gaining a quality education. I would be limited in my ability to grow at this time if I did not enroll in the DSL program. I aspire to utilize any skills and knowledge gained from this course to improve the world in my sphere of influence. My career will always fall behind God and my family in terms of importance. My personal goals of being a great husband, father, and man of God will always be at the core of who I am and what I strive to do. Nevertheless, I believe my career can coincide with my personal goals and values and help me become more like the person the Lord would have me to be. Merida (2015) explains the need to “submit to God’s will and God’s word” (p. 9). More important than the educational knowledge I gain is the spiritual knowledge I will acquire from the Lord. Psalms 25:9 says “The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way” (King James Bible, 1769/2017). Regardless of my own goals and aspirations, I must prioritize the Lord’s ways and trust in Him. No matter what my thoughts are, I must remember that “as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (King James
My mission statement has not changed. I still feel the way about teaching as I did then. I want students to want to come to school to learn. As my education journey comes closer to the end, I have learned many strategies and techniques to help me accomplish this goal. Teaching can be challenging just a learning can be for students, making it as interesting and fun as possible will ease that in some way. I firmly believe when students have confidence in themselves they will succeed, I want to help build the confidence. I have worked with special education student long enough to see it only takes a like gain to bring a smile to their face. Sometimes climbing one step may seem as if they climbed a mountain, and I want to share in their accomplishments.
The objective of this paper is to disclose how my career aspirations will align with the Adult Education program. The Adult Education program is important, because it provides a source for me to exercise my professional purpose. “Helping adult learners become successful one student at a time” is my professional purpose. I strive to make a difference in other lives, which drives me to contribute more than I have personally. Helping others motivate me to reach beyond my immediate means to other resources that can help adult learners to become successful.
Ever since the sixth grade I have known I want in my future. By setting this goal early, I have earned opportunities that will help me be successful after high school. Having a vision for my future has allowed me to step up and fill numerous leadership positions, learning valuable skills that will help me in my education and the workforce. I am a leader in community organizations, as well as state and nationwide organizations related to law and politics—my field of passion. These leadership positions allow me to gain the necessary leadership experience to develop into a leader both in my future profession and the community I call home.
My career goal is To assure the success of the process of children’s education; by providing them learning tools, which lead them to higher levels of education. In adition, I would advocate for quality services and rights for children and families.
It is my belief that anyone with a desire to change the world would be fortunate to work in education. By sharing my vision with others, and building upon my skills while seeking constant growth, I strive to take an approach to leadership that fosters an effective, nurturing educational environment for the entire school community. By creating this type of environment, as well as through embracing and enhancing my leadership strengths, it is my goal to contribute to society by inspiring people to become better not only as teachers and students, but as compassionate human beings.
The graduate students are a crucial human resource for promoting the development of a country. They are also changers, in the field socio-economic and technological innovation. The present graduate students have possessed certain career goals, which seem to be strong desire and achieve something high or great. According to
My future career plans is to be an art therapist. This suits me as I have an interest in working with adolescents or adults with developmental disorders and I have a love for the arts. I also think I am good at listening to people, so the art therapist career plan combines the counselor side of me with the artistic side. My other choice would be a fashion writer or editor because I always had an interest for the fashion industry, since my mom is a seamstress who graduated from FIDM. Also, it would suit me as I like writing as a creative outlet, through poetry or my journaling.
First, I will serve as a leader of my community. I will be an advocate for families and students of my community by encouraging parents to be involved in their child education, providing valuable information to the community, and promoting culturally responsive teaching practices. Additionally, I will be actively involved in professional development and committees that support social change. Through professional development, I will gain knowledge and grow as an educator. Through committees, I will be able to share my knowledge to help others learn and grow as an educator. Lastly, I will join professional organizations and associations. By joining organizations and associations, I will be able to communicate with others who share the same beliefs. This will help create positive social change among people all around the world. I will also be able to expand my knowledge and continue to grow as an educator by being apart of organizations and
I am very interested in pursuing my Masters Degree at some point, but my main goal is to get out into the school system as a teacher. The most important thing that I have learned in my life is the importance of education. Living in a world bursting with advantages and opportunities for those in education, I find it both a priority and a privilege to share the gift of knowledge with the future of society. Even more, I find it an honor to be able to have the chance.
Through my own experiences, and as enforced by others' opinions in the profession, I have found that teaching is one of the most rewarding careers. Not only are you placed in the position of instructing and guiding children and young adults through the life long learning process, but you are able to give back to the schools and communities which have supported your early education and experiences that opened you up to a bright future. In becoming an educator, I hope to someday share the knowledge and lend the helping, supportive hand that I was once given, allowing students to formulate their own perspectives of the multicultural society and world around them. Teaching is a career I have been interested in pursuing throughout high school, and as my experiences and study in the field expands, I feel that my desire to teach will grow stronger and develop more soundly.
I realised from all of these experiences, I worked in education because I liked learning new things and using that knowledge gained to make a positive difference in the lives of others. Now in my new roles as a well-being coach, motivational speaker, author and television presenter, I am applying the new skills that I am learning in new settings. What is core, to all of my work and roles, I am making a positive difference in the lives of others. Let me share an experience of how a coaching session which included the use of a motivation map changed the life of one of my clients. I will call the client Sarah.
“You should do pharmacy, you will have no future in business!” my mom said bluntly. Hearing those words felt disheartening, but something I have prove to my parents. Like many Asian parents, they want their child to pursue a career that will make their child financially stable, leading many to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, or any appreciated career from their Asian parents. Although, business may not earn as much money as the top professions, I have been interested in business, since it involves real-world concepts that can be practical for everyday life and the wide array of fields within the business world. Pursuing a career in business is something I aspire to achieve and want to prove my parents that I am capable of having a future
QUESTION 2 – Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals. My goals in life have been influenced by experiences and lessons I have endured throughout my young life. Ever since I was a kid I always had a desire to help people. I remember giving my pocket change to the homeless as we waited at a stop light, helping the elderly take their groceries to the car, help our neighbors cut the yard and many more.
I, Kapil Aggarwal, a final year student doing Bachelor of Technology in Pulp and Paper Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. In this essay I am going to focus on the incentives that stimulate me to pursue further studies and the motives behind my choice of University of Warwick as well as my future career objectives.
As I begin my rewarding career as I teacher, I sit and reflect on what my goals and priorities are in the classroom. I am excited to be engaged in a future career where I can implement my own beliefs and mold the future into something extremely positive. I believe the most important aspects that I want to bring to my students are threefold: I want to educate, motivate, and inspire.