Stage 1: Step 2: Directions to Read/Reflect/Write/Upload your Summative Reflection
We believe you are called – equipped, empowered, driven, and responsible – to make this world a better place for your neighbor. That’s the essence of vocation.
You will come across the word “vocation” a lot at Augsburg University. Therefore, it’s important to spend some time defining this word here at the beginning of your experience with the V-Portfolio.
- READ
- Take some time to read this definition of vocation and its importance at Augsburg University, written by Dr. Jeremy Myers. Jeremy is a Religion Professor and serves as the Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation and Executive Director of the Christensen Center for Vocation.
- REFLECT
- Reflect on how you agree and disagree with overview of vocation.
- The questions below can help you with this reflection:
- How would you summarize this definition of vocation in your own words?
- What, if anything, did you find compelling and exciting about vocation as you read?
- What, if anything, did you find confusing or maybe troubling?
- WRITE/CREATE
- Now that you’ve thought a little about this description, write your own Definition of Vocation.
- Feel free to paraphrase if you agreed with it or go in an entirely different direction if you disagreed with it. Your definition should be about one paragraph.
- Create something that will help you remember how you are defining vocation for yourself at this moment in time.
- UPLOAD
- Once you’ve written your Definition of Vocation, think of a creative way to upload it to your V-Portfolio.
- Could you rewrite it as a poem?
- Could you write a song about it?
- Paint or draw a picture that represents the definition for you?
- Build a presentation in PowerPoint or Canva?
- Have fun and be creative.
- Once you’ve written your Definition of Vocation, think of a creative way to upload it to your V-Portfolio.