OverviewAs you begin the first course in your program, you will explore resources and readings relevant to self-reflection, professional goals, and career aspirations. Doctoral students who understand how to manage and interpret academic experiences are more likely to gain the full value of the education experience. They reflect on errors and change their perspectives. They plan how to achieve their goals. They reflect on knowledge and skills that will make them attractive candidates for new career roles.What you do in this exploration will help you see more clearly what you have to offer, even though your goals may change as you proceed through your doctoral program. Your professional plan is a map that provides direction for your studies and professional growth. Your plan reflects an experience that nobody else is qualified to live out in the same way that you can.For this assignment, write a paper that presents your professional purpose, career goals, professional attributes, use of the Career Center, and identification of specific time-management strategies for your success development. Before you begin your assignment, review the scoring guide grading criteria.InstructionsUsing the Sample Course Paper Template [DOCX], write an APA-formatted paper according to the following guidelines:Title Page: Title your paper "Reflective Practice and Career Goals."Introduction: The opening content should directly follow the title of the paper (repeated from the title page) and provide an introduction and overview of what will be included in your paper.Professional Purpose and Career Goals: Reflect upon your professional purpose and career goals, including how your career aspirations align with your program or specialization outcomes. This self-reflection activity should inform your decision to reaffirm or reconsider your chosen degree program and specialization.Professional Attributes and Professional Growth: Articulate your professional strengths and opportunities for growth. Discuss why effective educators must be lifelong learners. Identify organizations, resources, and activities that could be used for professional development to strengthen your skills.Career Center: If you have not already done so, visit Capella University's Career Center. Discuss how the Career Center resources and services may be useful as you pursue your career goals related to your specialization.Time Management Strategies: Identify and describe at least two time-management strategies you will implement during this course and during your doctoral program.Conclusion: In one or two paragraphs, provide summative comments, including your thoughts about the value of identifying your professional purpose.References: Refer to Chapter 7, "Reference Examples," in the APA Manual, for formatting help in shaping your list of references, the final page of your paper.Use of First PersonThis assignment is the only assignment in this course for which you may use first person. However, you still need to leverage the literature to support any direct statements, facts, or claims related to your educational field or specialization. You may also leverage the literature to support your particular educational philosophy, rationale, or themes you what to include in your paper. APA formatting guidelines require third person for all other written assignments in the doctoral program. Check with your course instructor for any questions regarding this formatting standard. Reference section 3.09: Precision and Clarity in the current APA Manual.Also refer to Academic Writer for guidance on using proper APA style. See the APA Style and Format section of the Writing Center for instructions on accessing and using Academic Writer.Additional RequirementsIn addition to the requirements outlined above, your assignment should meet the following:Assignment template: Use the Sample Course Paper Template [DOCX] for the assignment. Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.APA formatting: All formatting is consistent with APA style, including headers, source citation, references, et cetera. Note the APA Manual (2010) instruction for the running head (Section 8.03): "Use the automatic functions of your word-processing program to generate headers and page numbers for your file. [Do not type these manuscript page headers repeatedly in your word processing file]" (p. 230). Also, "The running head is an abbreviated title that is printed at the top of the pages.... [It] should be a maximum of 50 characters, counting letters, punctuation, and spaces between words. It should appear flush left in all uppercase letters at the top of the title page and all subsequent pages" (p. 229).Title page: Include a title page with the following title: Reflective Practice and Career Goals. Sources: Minimum two peer-reviewed, scholarly sources.Length: The paper should be 4–6 pages in length, in addition to the title page and references page.Font and font size: Use 12-point Times New Roman font.Line spacing: Double space this paper.Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save this learning activity to your ePortfolio.Professional Purpose and Career Goals: Training Developer right now goal is to become a professorBy successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:Competency 3: Critically reflect on one's own professional decisions, attitudes, actions and skills to direct one's own learning and growth.Describe career goals and evaluate their alignment with program or specialization outcomes.Identify the alignment between professional goals and program outcomes.Describe professional strengths and opportunities for growth.Describe the importance of continuous education.Identify organizations, resources, and activities that can be used for professional development and strengthening skills.Describe one's areas of professional strength.Competency 5: Apply scholarly writing skills.Develop engaging text with varied sentence structure and sound grammatical structure.

In another textbook, Introduction to World Religions, by Christopher Partridge a claim is made about the religion(s) of Native American peoples. The claim is that "The tribal peoples of North America proclaim the One Great Spirit." Your task in this homework assignment is to determine whether that is true or false given the evidence you have in our textbook, Invitation to World Religions, 2nd Edition. If you think it is true, you might give examples of different tribes and their beliefs, illustrating how they believe in the One Great Spirit. If you think the claim is false, you might give examples of different tribes and their beliefs, illustrating how they don't believe in the One Great Spirit. You may need to interpret the name 'One Great Spirit' so that you and your reader (me and your peers) are clear on the claim. [You won't be sharing these, but it helps to have an audience in mind.] In short, treat the claim as an hypothesis and set about confirming it or refuting it.