Are Your Students Setting SMART Goals?

Are Your Students Setting SMART Goals?

We all have goals, whether it’s to lose 10 pounds, read more novels, or organize that overly filled teacher supply cabinet.  Once we create goals in our own minds, we are way more likely to actually see them through when we tell someone about them. So, imagine you choose a goal and share that goal with a life coach.  And, let’s say the life coach holds us accountable to our goal by checking in regularly, asking us about our intentional steps we are taking to make progress toward that goal, giving insightful feedback about our plans to meet our goal, helping us set realistic deadlines by which we want to have the goal met, and giving encouraging words that motivate us to reach it.  Do those things impact the likelihood of meeting the goal you set? The answer is of course, YES.  

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