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SMART GOALS

• What are they?
• Why use them?
• How do you write them?

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Why SMART Goals?

• Goals are something that you want to achieve in
  the future
• SMART goals assist in getting focused on where
  to put effort
• SMART goals help define exactly what the future
  state looks like and how it will be measured

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What Are SMART GOALS?
Specific Measurable Attainable Results-based
Timely
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SMART goals

• Specific and Measurable
• Poor goal I want to be a fit soccer player
• Good goal As a midfielder, I want to improve my
  endurance by running for thirty minutes three or
  four times a week

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SMART goals

• Attainable and Results-based
• There is no point setting a goal that you cannot
  reach you are not setting yourself up for
  success, but failure
• Set goals that you can achieve, and then once you
  achieve them, set new ones
• Goals should push for an end result something
  YOU want to see happen

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SMART goals

• Timely
• Make a detailed plan with a time frame for when
  and how the goal is to be achieved
• Write goals down

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SMART goals

• Putting the pieces together

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Tips for achieving your goals

• Choose a goal be very specific
• Write it down
• List what you need to reach your goal
• List what you need to do to reach your goal
• Set a date for reaching your goal
• Plan how you will reward yourself

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Sample Goal 1

• By 17 December, I would like to improve my
  homework habits by working without the TV, phone,
  or internet as a distraction for 30 solid
  minutes, each day that I have math homework. I
  will record my homework habits and distractions
  while doing my work.

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Sample Goal 2

• I want to work more collaboratively with my peers
  in class, so I will volunteer to coach groups
  when I understand the solution, and ask my
  classmates for help in learning groups when I
  need help, instead of remaining quiet.

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Sample Goal 3

• By the spring SLC time, I want to improve my
  resourcefulness when it comes to math, by
  increasing the number of resources I use to
  learn, practice, and study by adding 5 new
  resources.

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Sample Goal 4

• I want to challenge myself more in math before
  Christmas break, by trying to solve 1 blue level
  homework question from each homework assignment.

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Sample Goal 5  

• Since I still struggle with my multiplication
  facts, I want to practice and memorize all of my
  multiplication tables by January so that I can
  solve problems more quickly and easily.

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Sample Goal 6

• I want to stop relying on other people to help me
  solve math questions, so I will look back at my
  textbook, class notes, and use Khan Academy
  videos and practice to help me solve problems
  more independently.

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Questions?