SMART Goals

High School

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Objectives

• Today’s objectives are to:Learn about setting SMART goals

Develop SMART goals to help you achieve your dreams

Pre-Test

1. What does the acronym “SMART” stand for?

2. Is the following goal a SMART goal for a high school student? I will fly to the moon tomorrow. Explain why or why not.

3. What is one of your SMART goals for this year?

Review: Why Set Goals?

• When do you set goals for yourself?

• Why do you set goals?

• How does setting goals change your performance or how hard you work on something?

Review: 10 Reasons to Set Goals

1. Goals help you be who you want to be. 2. Goals stretch your comfort zone. 3. Goals boost your confidence. 4. Goals give your life purpose. 5. Goals make you more self-reliant. 6. Goals encourage you to trust your decisions. 7. Goals help you turn the impossible into the possible. 8. Goals prove that you can make a difference. 9. Goals improve your outlook on life. 10. Goals lead to feelings of satisfaction. Bachel, B.K. (2001).

Review: Types of Goals

• Short-term goals are ones that you will achieve in the near future (e.g., in a day, within a week, or possibly within a few months).

• Long-term goals are ones that you will achieve over a longer period of time (e.g., one semester, one year, five years, or twenty years).

Weinstein & Awalt, 2001

SMART Goals

• SMART Goals are:SpecificMeasurableAchievableRelevantTimely

Adapted from Doran, 1981

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Become a Goal Getter!

• Review your lifeline-What is the dream you most want to

accomplish in your future?

• Create a SMART goal for that dream.

• Here’s an example.

Dream Example

• Dream: to be a doctor –What is something I

need to do to get there?• I will need to go to

college and then medical school• I can write a long-term

goal for graduating from medical school

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SMART Goal Example

• What do I want to accomplish?– I want to graduate form medical school.

• How will I know when I achieved my goal?– I will graduate.

• Is this goal realistic? Do I have the right tools?– If I work hard, take the right classes, have support from my

friends, family, and teachers, I know I can do it.• Why is this goal important?

– I can’t become a doctor unless I graduate from medical school.• When can I achieve this goal?

– I’m in 6th grade - I have 6 years of middle and high school, 4 years of college, and 4 years of medical school.

– I can achieve this goal in 14 years

SMART Goal Example

My goal:I will graduate from

medical school in 14 years.

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Your SMART goal

• On the back of your SMART goal paper, create a long-term goal that aligns with your dream that follows the SMART goal requirements.

• When you and your partner have completed your SMART goals, pair up.– Check each other’s goals. Do they fulfill the

criteria? Can your partner answer all of the questions on the handout?

Directions

• Now, write 3 short-term SMART goals (that you can accomplish this semester) that will help you reach your long-term goal.– Think of your past goals. Have you accomplished

them? • If so, great job! • If not, are they still appropriate goals?

– Turn them into SMART goals!

• If they’re no longer appropriate, come up with new goals.

Pair and Share

• Pick a partner• Share your 3 short-term goal• Describe how each goal is– Specific – Measurable – Achievable– Relevant – Timely

Post-Test

1. What does the acronym “SMART” stand for?

2. Is the following goal a SMART goal for a 6th grader? I will fly to the moon tomorrow. Explain why or why not.

3. What is one of your SMART goals for this year?

Review

• SMART stands for:–Specific, Measureable, Achievable,

Relevant, and Timely• Discuss: What some of the SMART goals

you set for this semester?

References

• Doran, G. T. (1981). There's a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management's goals and objectives. Management Review, 70(11), 35-36.

• Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/