The College Learning Plan and Goal Setting
What is the College Learning Plan?
In the coming weeks you will be completing assessment tasks, receiving feedback on tasks and getting your Semester 1 school reports. Following this, you will be introduced to the College Learning Plan. Students will attend a presentation with their class about what the College Learning Plan is and then will attend a coaching session to work through the plan. Students will examine their reports in detail and complete a self reflection activity using their individual subject grades, 'Commitment to Learning' behaviour descriptors and teacher comments. After the presentation, students will attend a coaching session to review:
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Setting personal goals
The College Learning Plan will ensure that all Sydney Secondary College students are active participants in their learning, having set individualised goals in response to identified strengths and weaknesses based on your report.
Goal setting can help you develop and maintain motivation and give you a long-term vision. Setting goals for academic success can help you have a happier school experience, feel better about yourself and help you on your way to finding a fulfilling career when you are older.
Start to think about what you want to achieve. Consider goals for your overall schooling and individual subjects. There might be some subjects that you really love and you might set some very challenging goals for those subjects. Some subjects you might find a bit challenging. In this case you might set goals that help you to engage with the subject, to catch up on it, to get a little bit better at it or start to enjoy it.
What are some personal goals you have? Think about you individual accomplishments and skills that you already have, and then think about things you still need to work on.
Create a list of some basic goals you have for yourself for this year:
What are SMART goals?
SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely.
Specific
Transform one of the items on your basic list of goals into a SMART goal. Writing effective SMART goals usually takes a few revisions.
SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely.
Specific
- Who? What? When? Where?
- Is the goal fine-tuned?
- Is it clear what you are trying to achieve?
- How will you know when you have reached your goal or if you have made progress toward it?
- How will you know that you have achieved your goal?
- Are there benchmarks you can hit along the way?
- Is your goal realistic?
- Does it fit with what you can realistically achieve this school year with the time and resources available?
- Is the goal something that can be achieved with current skills and abilities or do you need to develop new ones?
- Why is the goal important?
- What qualities make this a worthwhile goal?
- Does it have personal and academic benefits?
- Does your goal have time constraints?
- Can you achieve the goal by the end of the school year?
Transform one of the items on your basic list of goals into a SMART goal. Writing effective SMART goals usually takes a few revisions.