Week 1: Personal Aspirations
Self-assessment and self-reflection is common and expected for human services practitioners. It allows you to evaluate your skills, values, and aspirations as well as how you fit within the profession. It also provides guidance about skills that you might need to develop. A strong human services practitioner looks inside themselves to be able to understand the needs of others.
Note: In this course, the expectation for your writing centers on grammar, paragraph construction, and other fundamental aspects of communicating in writing. These are the foundation for developing a scholarly voice and allow you to demonstrate your critical thinking. See the rubrics for specific, assessable items.
To Prepare
- Review your course announcements for possible information related to this week’s Discussion.
- Review the assigned sections of the media Human Services Stories.
- Think about how your humanitarian mindset and your professional aspirations inspire you to become a human services practitioner. In what work do you aspire to engage? Where do you think you might fit best?
Create a 250- to 300-word reflection in which you do the following:
- Describe your aspirations for becoming a human services practitioner.
- Explain what brought you to this field. Describe any prior experiences that you have had that have influenced you to engage in this type of profession.
- Explain two elements of the profession that you find most exciting and why and two potential elements of the profession that you might consider challenging and why.
Tutorial for Personal Aspirations
