e-Portfolio of Professor Deartra D. Boone
Goals
Goals are essential to being a successful person. Here's my goals.
My Goals
These are my career and personal goals...
Overall Career Objective: To secure an adjunct professor position with a community college by Fall 2015 in the English department, located in Texas (Dallas, Plano, or McKinney).
Educational Goals:
Goal #1: To graduate from Tiffin University with a Master’s of Humanities with a concentration in English and Creative Writing.
Action Steps:
Enroll at Tiffin University
Discuss dual concentration with my advisor
Take necessary courses need to graduate
Purchase graduation regalia
Graduate
Goal #2: To pursue the Graduate Academic Certificate in Teaching Technical Writing from University of North Texas.
Action Steps:
Secure funding for the course
Enroll at UNT
Take necessary courses need to obtain the certificate
Consider applying the certificate to the Master of Arts in Professional and Technical Communication at UNT.
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Professional Goals:
Goal #1: Secure an adjunct professor position with Collin College or Dallas County Community Colleges in the English Department by 2015.
Actions Steps:
Submit resume to college online job sites
Complete interviews with each college
Become one of the best professors the institution has
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Goal #2: Secure a position as a creative writing professor with a local college in the DFW area or at an online institution by 2020.
Actions Steps:
Look at what colleges offer creative writing classes
Submit resume to college online job sites
Complete interviews with each college
Become one of the best professors the institution has
Personal Goals
These are my personal goals...
Overall Personal Objective: To become a published author with a national publishing company
Goal #1: To publish several of my college writings by Summer 2018.
Action Steps:
Edit each writing
Create covers for the writings
Publish the writings on CreateSpace Publishing
Goal #2: To publish my novel, Subtle Manipulations, by Fall 2019
Action Steps:
Edit the book
Self-publish the book on CreateSpace Publishing
Sell the book online
Seek publication with a national publisher
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
Tony Robbins
Completed Goals
Educational Goal #1
I graduated from Tiffin Univeristy.
Professional Goal #1
I'm a college professor at Collin College & Richland College.
Personal Goal #1
I've published five of my writing collections.