EDN101 Essay: SOAR Analysis for Teaching Student's Skills

This essay presents a SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results) analysis conducted for a university student pursuing a Bachelor of Teaching with a focus on early childhood and primary education. The analysis aims to help the student understand their personal skills and strengths, and to identify future opportunities. The essay details the student's strengths, including self-discipline, leadership, and problem-solving skills, as well as opportunities for improvement such as managing impatience. The student's aspirations include becoming an impactful teacher, and the expected results involve improved communication and a peaceful teaching approach. The essay concludes by emphasizing the effectiveness of SOAR analysis in goal achievement through honest self-reflection and strategic planning, and includes references to relevant academic sources.

EDN101 ESSAY

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
SOAR Analysis............................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
SOAR is an acronym for Strength, Opportunities, Aspiration and Results and this
analysis is referred as a strategic planning tool or technique. It helps an individual to focus on
personal strength and opportunities. SOAR also assist to create a vision for future aspiration and
the results it will lead to bring. The soar analysis is conducted in the present report for an
individual university student who is studying Bachelor of Teaching and majoring in early
childhood and primary discipline. The soar analysis is conducted so that individual can
understand his personal skills and strength in better way and also can identify future
opportunities.
MAIN BODY
SOAR Analysis
This analysis act as a powerful technique for individual as they can recognize self potential
or strength and can also create vision for future effectively. SOAR analysis is conducted in order
to find out my personal strengths and skills so that I can focus on becoming a competent student
and an impactful teacher (Gallagher and Lopez, 2018, pp.114). Soar analysis will provide me
with guidelines and directions for becoming a successful university student and also pinpoint
future opportunities, aspirations and brings out better results.
Strengths:
 Self-discipline
 Wisdom and understanding of different
subjects
 Good leadership and time-management
skill
 Innovative and creative
 Good problem solving skill
Opportunities:
 Work on tempered and impatience
nature
 Change in strict and brash nature
 Grow in to flexible and peaceful
teacher
Aspirations:
 Better understanding of teaching
 Impactful and influential teacher
 Bring significant impacts on students
Results:
 Ability to communicate effectively with
students
 Understanding for calm down students
 Peaceful, flexible and impactful teacher
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Strength refers to skills that I have and it can be reflected through my character and past
experiences. My strengths are that I am self-discipline student, I posse’s good leadership and
time-management skill (Cole, Cox and Stavros, 2018, pp.4). I can bring out innovative and
creative ideas and I also posses’ good wisdom and understanding of different subjects. My
strength are that I can do well in directing and guiding people regarding problem solving as I can
see things through using different perspectives and I can also follow through various strategy for
reaching an effective and appropriate solution.
Opportunities refer to the best potential option for me and that makes it possible for me to
become competent university student and a successful teacher. Through analysing my skills and
strengths, I came to know that I need to work on nurturing my emotional quotient and also
change my impatience behaviour and tempered or strict nature. So that, I can gain opportunity of
becoming flexible, loving and a peaceful teacher (Bernstein, 2018, pp.524). Regular study habits,
student attitude, academic readiness and motivation are considered as the controlling aspects or
factors that can lead to bring great opportunity for me to accomplish my goals and targets.
Aspiration refers to ambition or hope for accomplishing something. My aspiration is to
become a successful teacher of an early childhood and primary school. Through the university
studies, I aim at having a better way of understanding children’s perspective and also a better of
teaching and guiding children. Effectively reflecting on my strengths and opportunities, I am
aware of differences between wrong and right and I can also work or act in accordance with what
is right. My general goal is to become a teacher that brings great and positive impact and
influence of the students. Therefore, my aspiration is becoming a competent and successful
university student who graduates for becoming impactful teacher and would inspire and also
assists effectively the next generations.
Results are considered as the consequences or outcomes of something. I decided to become
a university student so that I can graduate and gain some skills and knowledge that helps me to
become a successful and impactful teacher (Smith, 2018, pp.8). Developing realistic study
process and plan and effectively implementing it will results in achievement of goals. The
realistic plan needs to be based on my aspirations, skills, strengths and honest reflection of self
analysis. The reflection insights help me for preparing in better way and also to remove the
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threatening part of my attempts for becoming competent and successful university student and
also an impactful teacher.
CONCLUSION
The soar analysis is innovative tool that effectively engages individuals and brings effective
results and outcomes. Through using SOAR analysis, Individual can understand that effectively
improving the strengths, skills and also finding opportunities and aspirations, one can efficiently
accomplish the targeted goals and objectives. The honest and reflective analysis of strength,
opportunities, aspirations and results helps in effectively accomplishing the goals and targets.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Smith, P.T., 2018. Organizational Readiness to Change for Professional
Collaboration (Doctoral dissertation, Rivier University).
Gallagher, M.W. and Lopez, S.J. eds., 2018. The Oxford handbook of hope. Oxford University
Press.
Cole, M.L., Cox, J.D. and Stavros, J.M., 2018. SOAR as a mediator of the relationship between
emotional intelligence and collaboration among professionals working in teams: implications for
entrepreneurial teams. SAGE Open, 8(2), p.2158244018779109.
Bernstein, A., 2018. Improving performance and identifying strengths in employees. Nursing
And Residential Care, 20(10), pp.524-526.
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