PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Course 4. Strategy (recommended)
In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Advocate for Change. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.
Course 5. Teaching (required)
In this course, you will develop the Advocate for Change domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.
Specialization 1 (recommended)
In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Advocate for Change goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.
Specialization 2 (recommended)
In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.
Specialization 3 (required)
In this course, you will develop the Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.
Specialization 4 (recommended)
In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.
Specialization 5 (recommended)
In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Applied Research Competencies. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.
Advanced Doctoral Course 1 (required)
In this course, you will develop the Applied Research Competencies domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.
Advanced Doctoral Course 2 (recommended)
In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Applied Research Competencies goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.
Advanced Doctoral Course 3 (recommended)
In this course, you will start reflecting on the overall process of developing and implementing your Professional Development Framework. Think about what you have learned during this process. Consider what parts of your framework you have been able to use successfully and what parts need some revision.
Advanced Doctoral Course 4 (required)
In your final course, you will review the complete developmental framework you have created. Think about the agency you feel you have in trying to change the structures in which you work to help you develop as a doctoral professional and whether the framework has helped you to gain more agency.
You will include your final reflection on your professional development in your capstone project under PART 2: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK.
