My Professional Goal in the next 5 years
This question, “where you would like to be in the next five
years as an instructor” has been knocking at my brain for the last few years.
You may call it as my mid-life crisis or my increased sensitivity towards my
purpose of life. What really, I want to be in next 5 years and where?
Of course, my heart takes me to the class-room whether it is
a real brick and mortar classroom or a virtual classroom during this new
Covid19 pandemic era; I have always seen myself well placed as an instructor. I
have a lot of diversity in my trainings when it comes to the subject matter
expertise. I was originally trained to teach in a University while continuing
my Ph.D. in Life Sciences or more specifically as Medical Sciences as a
Biophysicist and then after my Ph.D. as a Reproductive Physiologist. But after
immigrating to Canada, my professional field changed to human and social
services. Though, I always longed for University teaching but I naturally
settled as community-based researcher and educator, workshop facilitator and
adult educator, life coach and employment counselor. I guess, it was my transferrable
skills as an instructor and a keen researcher evolved me who I am today.
In the last 15 years, though I have accepted various
employment opportunities as they came along my way and I have enjoyed doing all
my jobs from the core of my heart, but I never gave up my quest to become an
instructor and that is still my life-long goal. That’s why I felt encouraged to
start this PIDP diploma from VCC after meeting with the Head of Upgrading
Department at University of the Fraser Valley, when he said, “we had a position
to hire you as Biology instructor if you had PIDP diploma” and right after the
meeting I enrolled for my PIDP course 5 years ago. Despite of the fact that I
had lots of bumps in my personal life and couldn’t complete my diploma sooner,
but currently I am almost there to finish it in 2020.
My three professional goals which would bring me closer to
my long-term vision to work as an instructor in any Canadian University are:
1.
To complete my PIDP Diploma in 2020
2.
Remain focused on my professional development and
personal growth by remaining current through active networking with the
University of the Fraser Valley instructor community, students and changing
trends in teaching methodology with time and ultimately meet my career
aspirations which entails towards achieving qualified Instructor status. I
network with them continuously through online networking sites such as
LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and through emails.
3.
As I move towards my long-term
goal, I am aware that the education industry is a very competitive market,
especially the University teachings which is almost gearing towards 100% online
status during this Covid19 era, so I plan on using the next five years to
polish my teaching skill set learning all different online handles such as Moodle,
blackboard, web-based e-teaching and e-learning, converting my teaching
instructions in the form of video lectures and I will also focus on
experiential learning from experienced teachers, and make a positive
contribution to the universities and to the students.
I am open to suggestions and your
positive constructive feedback which maybe helpful for me to achieve my
long-term goal.
Kindly
Kusum Soni
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