In this three-to-six-page paper that follows APA style, you will explore how your experiences, values, and
beliefs have enabled you to develop some skills more easily than others. Insights from your journal entries
should be incorporated here but your paper should also expand beyond them.
Specifically, you must:
Identify at least two counseling skills that you believe come more easily to you.
Counseling skills are Questioning, Attending, Feeling and Content
Discuss how your experiences, values, and beliefs may have influenced your comfort with these skills.
Identify at least one counseling skill that you believe is more difficult for you to implement at this time.
Discuss how your experiences, values, and beliefs may have influenced your challenges with this skill.
Select a workshop, textbook, or other resource (BE SPECIFIC!) that you believe can help you with this challenging skill, and describe why you have selected it.
Explore how you can use your personal or professional experiences to also increase your comfort with this challenging skill.
Name Description Rubric Detail
Self Awareness Paper-Spring 2018
Levels of Achievement
Criteria
Novice
Competent
Proficient
Formatting
0 Points
Does not follow fundamentals of APA style and/or does not meet minimum page requirement (3-6).
5 Points
Follows basics of APA style, with some errors (>3) in citations and formatting of cover page and /or reference page. Meets minimum page requirement (3-6).
10 Points
Few (1-2), if any, errors in applying APA style to paper. Meets minimum page requirement (3-6).
Organization & Grammar
0 Points
Multiple (>6) spelling and grammatical errors throughout. Appears as if basic proofreading has not occurred.
Introduction and summary paragraphs are not present or are vague and do not clearly introduce/close paper. Transitions between paragraphs are not included and/or make the paper difficult the read.
5 Points
Some (>3) spelling and grammatical errors are present. Errors detract somewhat from paper, but do not significantly impair readability. Paper generally follows an order that allows the reader to move smoothly between paragraphs.
10 Points
Few (1-2), if any, spelling or grammatical errors present. Appears that paper has been thoroughly edited prior to submission. Clear and useful introductory and summary paragraphs are used and transitions are smooth between paragraphs.
Skill Identification- Strengths
0 Points
No mention of counseling skill that comes more easily to student.
5 Points
Mentions ONE counseling skill that comes more easily to student.
10 Points
Mentions TWO counseling skill that comes more easily to student.
Discussion of Skill- Strength
0 Points
No mention of how your experiences, values, and beliefs may have influenced your comfort level with these skills.
10 Points
Mentions how student’s experiences, values, and beliefs may have influenced comfort level with these skills, but lacking in detail and is too vague.
20 Points
Thorough, thoughtful, and detailed discussion about how your experiences, values, and beliefs may have influenced your comfort level with these skills.
Levels of Achievement
Criteria
Novice
Competent
Proficient
Skill Identification- Growth Area
Discussion of Skill- Growth Area
Resource for Challenging Skill
Personal/Professional Experiences
References
