Can you be a Role Model
After completing this chapter it has brought an important question to the table for discussion. Are we really ready to be a role model. It is so important to look at one self and do an adjustment on our life history, focus on the key issues and try to be a guidling light for someone less fortunate.
I could not agree with the two of you more. Leading by example is key. It is important that students see their instructors model the behavior that they want emulated. Students look to you as their guiding light and it is our job as instructors to foster healthy practices for them to carry with them from now and later on in their careers. I believe there has been a breakdown in society as far as people meeting career expectations of employers secondary to the fact that professionalism is not a skill that people are taught nor is it emphasized in their at home lives. We as instructors may be the first person in the lives of a student to help them to mold a specific type of professional character.
Hi Tornetta,
Thanks for asking this important question for us all to consider. We are in positions of authority and we need to make sure that we have done all that we can to provide the needed modeling so our students will know what a successful person in our respective fields looks like.
Gary
You raise a good point. I think that, as role models in programs such as ours, we rely first on our professional experience. By sharing our work ethic and sense of professionalism, we model behaviors that can really impact our students.
