Compotency Essay

Running Head : COMPETENCY ESSAY

Competency Essay (Your Name (Your School

Competency charts are important as they express individual ability in a certain area of specialization . Competency Charts allow for setting of learning outcomes and experimental learning . Competency charts also shows the preparedness of an individual to carry out a given task based on strengths and weaknesses after a thorough analysis of the task to be accomplished

In my competency chart , the first learning outcome was to understand why an individual decides to teach or to enter into teaching profession . To

assess my competency in this area , I researched and read a number of articles on why individuals chose to enter into teaching profession . I also completed a complete informal interest inventory as a part of EDUC 200 coursework . In documentation , I entered an interest inventory and also documented the article entitled Why Teach : Pros and Entry Perspectives of Minority Students as Becoming Teachers ' by Zhixin Su . I realized that there are a number of factors that make individual to enter into teaching profession . First , individual may enter into the profession just because they have passed their exams and have been advised to enter teaching as a well paying career (Tarvers , 1998 Second , individual also enter into teaching profession because they are interested into teaching or teaching is like a call to them (Tarvers 1998 . After reading the article by Zhixin I realized that I have special interest in empowering minority children through education and hence the only way I could...