Benchmark- Examining Professional Requirements: A Growth Pla…

In your career, it will be common for you to compose letters and emails to important stakeholders. You will need to write professionally in these instances. In this assignment, write a letter that discusses your future development and growth as well as ethical responsibilities.

During a recent professional development, your administrator asked all staff members to create a professional growth plan. The first part of that plan is to write a letter to yourself outlining various areas of development, growth, and ethical responsibilities. Your administrative team will use the letter to plan and facilitate future professional development opportunities.

In 500-750 words address the following:

Identify and reflect on your personal motivation for pursuing a graduate degree in secondary education.

Describe your curricular and professional progression requirements, as well as certification requirements, to gain or maintain licensure in your state. Include any undergraduate requirements, hours of observation/experience, required testing, other professional development opportunities, etc.

Describe how you will promote ethical practice, build stronger relationships, and create more relevant learning experiences by understanding, reflecting, and accessing resources about potential biases, including those related to cultural, ethnic, gender, and learning differences.

Describe your leadership, collaboration, and technology goals to effectively develop as a professional and embrace challenges and change.

Determine how your expectations of the teaching profession compare with what you have learned about the qualities and experience of a currently practicing teaching professional.

Support your essay with 2-3 scholarly resources.

Throughout your academic journey, you will see verbiage directing your writing style (APA, academic writing). When writing academically you are to write professionally. However, there are times when your writing can be less formal but still professional, for instance when communicating with parents or stakeholders. Often when writing academically, the use of the first person is prohibited. For this writing assignment, writing in the first person is acceptable as needed.

While APA Style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite Technical Support Articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies and professional standards:

MEd in Secondary Education (ITL/NITL); MEd in Secondary Education-Humanities (ITL/NITL/NV); MEd in Secondary Education-STEM (ITL/NITL/NV)

4.2: Reflect on personal biases and access resources to deepen understanding of cultural, ethnic, gender, and learning differences to promote ethical practice, build stronger relationships and create more relevant learning experiences. InTASC 9(e), 9(g), 9(i), 9(m); ISTE-E 4d; AAQEP 1c, 2b; MC3, MC5; COE 4.2]