Community Service

The graduate collaborates with families, caretakers, and the larger community to identify partnerships that facilitate learner growth.

INTRODUCTION

The development of the School of Education (SOE) Professional Dispositions and Ethics for Next-Gen candidates strengthens the educational experience and conveys the SOE’s commitment to teaching, learning, and leading to the greater professional community. This professional dispositions and ethics work at WGU is supported by the “primary critical Healthy Learning focus areas that are key drivers of student academic, professional, and personal success” (Milliron, Walsh, Rhodes, 2021). As a Next-Gen candidate, you will need to collaborate with families, caregivers, and the larger community to establish partnerships that will promote learner growth.

In this task, you will first complete the SOE Professional Dispositions and Ethics self-assessment. Then you will create an action plan for ongoing professional development in the following professional dispositions and ethics:

• All individuals Can Learn

• Empathy

• Growth Mindset

• Intellectual Courage

• Belonging

• Integrity

• Professionalism

• Communication

You will explain how you have demonstrated the dispositions or ethics in a professional setting, which could include a workplace, school setting, community setting, or volunteering. Then you will identify ways you can grow in the professional dispositions and ethics, justify your action steps, and explain how you will collaborate with families, caregivers, and the larger community to apply the professional dispositions and ethics in the future.

Please note: To assist you in this task, we strongly recommend you start by reviewing the SOE Professional Dispositions and Ethics and watching the Self-assessment: Community of Care video linked in the Web Links section below. You should review Module 13 prior to starting this task.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide. You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

A. Complete the “School of Education (SOE) Professional Dispositions and Ethics Self-Assessment Instrument” in the Web Links section below. You will receive an email with a pdf, submit that pdf with this task.

B. Using the results of your self-assessment, describe how you will support your ongoing development as a Next-Gen candidate by doing the following:

1. Choose two of the eight SOE Professional Dispositions and Ethics from the list below and explain how you have demonstrated each of them within a professional setting.

• All Individuals Can Learn

• Empathy

• Growth Mindset

• Intellectual Courage

• Belonging

• Integrity

• Professionalism

• Communication

2. Choose two of the eight SOE Professional Dispositions and Ethics from the list in part B1 and do the following:

a. Describe two action steps you will take to improve your proficiency (one action step for each chosen disposition or ethic).

b. Justify how each action step from prompt B2a will help you develop as a Next-Gen candidate in each SOE Professional Disposition and Ethic that you chose in B2.

C. Choose two SOE Professional Dispositions and Ethics from the list in part B1, that you did not use in prompts B1 or B2, and do the following:

1. Explain how you would apply both of the chosen SOE Professional Dispositions and Ethics to collaborate with families, caregivers, or the larger community.

2. Explain how application of both of the chosen SOE Professional Dispositions and Ethics facilitates learner growth.

D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.