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Lesson 7:
SMART Goals Improve Impact and Help You Persevere
Learning Targets
Students will create SMART goals to improve the success of the project(s) and brainstorm ways to persevere despite obstacles.
Downloadable Materials
Lesson Plan: SMART Goals Improve Impact and Help You Persevere
Action planning lesson that begins with brainstorming how to motivate others. Students explore common service project challenges and solutions, apply the SMART goal framework through a video and class discussion, and then pair-share their personal first steps and strategies for overcoming obstacles.
Presentation: SMART Goals Improve Impact and Help You Persevere
Explains common project challenges and strategies to overcome each. SMART framework explained through an instructional video. Students set SMART goals for their projects.
Activity: SMART Goals - Student Worksheet
Goal-setting worksheet with warm-up on motivating discouraged project members, a two-column SMART goals table (definitions and student responses), and Reflection for Action, where students identify their first step and list possible obstacles with strategies to overcome them.
