SWOT Synthesis

Paper Summary:

This is a personal account of a 21st century educator who is planning to continue learning and furthering her career working with children. She analyses her strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with references to various articles and papers that assess issues and future trends in education.

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"I have prior experience as a 21st century educator through my childcare experience as a preschool teacher, and as a learner through completing my Certificate III in children's services. This experience has already given me an insight into life as a 21st century educator, and has inspired me to continue learning and furthering my career working with children, and enhancing their learning. This will beneficial for me in my future career, as I can use my past experiences to learn from, and draw upon to extend my future experiences teaching children.
Through Holland's vocational theory I have found that I am a social and creative person (Levinson, 2007). My understanding of Holland's vocational theory enables me to gauge others' personalities which will become necessary not only through my group assignments through university but amongst colleagues in the workplace and interacting with students. My workplace directly compliments my personality type as it is mostly compliant with social types which is crucial in my efforts to gain career fulfillment (Levinson, 2007).
Whilst studying Myer-Briggs type indicators (MBTI) I have found that I have an Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judgment (INFJ) personality type (Reinhold, 2006). My MBTI lives in the future with imagination and creativity as natural instincts (Poirier, n.d.). Through my positive outlook of the future I feel I can help children gain a positive attitude towards their own future within the knowledge society. Volf and Katerberg (2004) explain hope for the future:
"Over the last three decades a major cultural shift has taken place in the attitudes of Western societies toward the future. Optimism has given way to a sense of ambiguity... (which) threatens to stifle hope at a personal as well as a social level." (p. 415)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bishop, J. (2006). Address to The History Teachers' Association of Australia Conference, Fremantle [electronic source]. 1-6. Retrieved April 24, 2007 from http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Bishop/2006/10/B001061006.asp
• Digital Strategy. (n.d.). Glossary of Key Terms. Retrieved May 27, 2007 from http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/templates/Page____60.aspx
• Gilbert, S. (1995). Quality Education: Does Class Size Matter? [Electronic version]. Retrieved June 6, 2007 from http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/26/02/fa.pdf
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• Levinson, E. M. (2007). EDSP102: Holland's Theory.wmv. Retrieved April 17, 2007 from http://www.coe.iup.edu/emlevins.wmv

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