Evaluator Competencies for Professional Development
Visitor Studies Professional Self Assessment
If you are unsure about where to start in determining your plans for professional development as a visitor studies professional, it will be helpful to understand your strengths, weaknesses, and interests at this point in your career. Download and print the self-assessment form and fill in the provided table to get a sense of your current professional strengths and those areas that you would like to strengthen. Use the rubric in the document to assess your competencies.
Once you have an idea of your current professional profile, identify ways you would like to strengthen your knowledge, skills, and abilities in the various visitor studies competencies. Establish a professional development plan:
Step 1: Determine your learning goals. What do you want to learn in each of the competencies?
Step 2: Establish a time frame to accomplish your goals.
Step 3: Identify learning opportunities for each competency. Consider readings, courses, workshops, internships, work experience, and volunteer work.
This project was supported in part by grant No. 04-43196 from the Informal Science Education Program of the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
A grant from the Noyce Foundation provided support for the web-based dissemination of the Evaluator Competencies for Professional Development.