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ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success

Week 1 Assignment  

Creating Your SMART Goals

Each week of this course, you will work on pieces of your final project. This week you will work on developing academic and professional SMART goals and reflecting on their value. SMART goals must be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. This assignment is meant to stimulate your thinking about what you want to achieve, so you can create your Personal Development Plan by Week 5.

 Prepare:

Read Section 1.1 of the textbook.

Read SMART Goals: Definition and Examples (Links to an external site.).

Review the grading rubric (Links to an external site.) for this assignment.

Review the Week 1 Model Assignment. (Links to an external site.)

Watch the SMART Goals (Links to an external site.)

SMART Goals (Links to an external site.)

 Reflect:

Think about what you want to accomplish as a college student as you craft an academic SMART goal. While earning credits and getting good grades is important, so is the act of learning and applying your learning in meaningful ways. You can still set a professional SMART goal even if you’re not currently working in your dream profession yet. In fact, that’s why it’s important to set goals about that now. If you’re not sure what you want to do professionally, consider crafting a goal related to your role as an employee such as work ethic, time management, and other work-related responsibilities.

 Write:

To complete your assignment,

Download the SMART Goals  downloadtemplate and respond to each section. Save the completed template to your computer and upload it to Waypoint. Be sure to double-check that it was properly saved and uploaded successfully.

In the SMART Goals template, you will

Write an academic SMART goal.

Explain how your academic goal is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.

Write a professional SMART goal.

Reflect on the value of SMART goals.

 

 

 

 

ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success

Week 2 Assignment  

Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement

Understanding your strengths and your areas of opportunity for improvement is invaluable to your growth. Your strengths are often behaviors, characteristics, and skills that are perceived positively. Doing these things well is advantageous as you work towards your goals. Understanding those behaviors, characteristics, and skills that you need to work on developing is equally important. They can be hurdles as you work towards goals, so they present an opportunity for improvement.

For this assignment, you will assess the strengths you already possess that can help you meet your goals and identify your opportunities for improvement. These elements are part of the Week 5 Final Project: Personal Development Plan and will be shared with your peers in the Reflective Thinking discussion forum next week.

 Prepare:

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

Read the External and Internal Motivation  (Links to an external site.)webpage article.

Review your LCI assessment results.

Review tables 2.1 to 2.4 in Chapter 2 of the textbook for descriptions of each Learning Pattern.

Review the grading rubric (Links to an external site.).

Review the Week 2 Model Assignment (Links to an external site.).

Review the goals you created in the Week 1 assignment.

Be sure to review the feedback you received from your instructor on the Week 1 Creating your SMART Goals assignment, and use it to revise your goals, if necessary.

Need help? To learn how to access your assignment feedback, watch this video: Accessing Your Waypoint Feedback (Links to an external site.).

  Write:

In a paper that is at least two pages in length, write about the following (be sure to add details, explanations, and examples to support your ideas):

SMART Goals (one paragraph):

Restate the two SMART goals you developed in Week 1.

Describe your motivation for pursuing each of these goals.

Three Strengths (one to two paragraphs):

Discuss three strengths that you possess that can help you reach your SMART goals.

Include examples to support each strength you identify.

Tip: Consider your overall strengths, or how your Learning Patterns can be a strength or an advantage. Even if your score is not Use-First, it could still be perceived a strength depending on the situation.

Three Areas of Opportunity (one to two paragraphs):

Discuss three areas of opportunities for improvement (i.e., obstacles or challenges) you must address to reach your goals.

Include examples to support each opportunity for improvement you identify.

Tip: Consider overall challenges that you face, or how your Learning Patterns can create challenges or be a disadvantage. Even if your score is Use-First, it could still be perceived as an opportunity for improvement depending on the situation.

 

ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success

Week 3 Assignment  

Learning Strategies, Tools, and Resources

In Week 2, you identified your strengths and opportunities for improvement based on your Learning Patterns. The next step in your Personal Development Plan is to identify sources of support to help you achieve the goals. For this assignment, you will explore the tools, strategies, and resources located in the Student Support Center (SSC), and apply them to each of your opportunities for improvement as you work towards meeting your goals.

 Prepare:

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

Complete the Student Support Center quiz.

Review the areas of strengths and opportunities for improvement you identified in the Week 2 assignment.

Select and read one article from the two listed below:

This is How to Increase the Odds of Reaching Your Goals by 95% (Links to an external site.)

What is an Accountability Partner –And How to Choose Yours (Links to an external site.)

Review How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.).

Review the Week 3 Model Assignment (Links to an external site.).

Review the grading rubric (Links to an external site.) for this assignment.

  Reflect:

Another important factor of goal achievement is sharing your goals and plan with others. Think of a family member, friend, colleague, or mentor who could serve as an accountability partner or a sounding board while you work on the academic and professional goals identified in your Personal Development Plan. Consider the following:

Who might you count on when things get tough?

Who will help you celebrate when you make progress?

  Write:

Construct a six-slide PowerPoint presentation that could be shared with the person or persons you will identify as a source of support. You can create your PowerPoint from scratch, or download and use this template as a guide: Week 3 PowerPoint template  download. Use the bullet points below as a guide for each of your slides.

Slide 1: Include the title of the assignment, your name, the school’s name, the course code and name (i.e., ASH101: Launchpad: Developing Skills and Strategies for Success), your instructor’s name, and the assignment due date.

Slide 2: List the three areas of opportunities for improvement that you identified in the Week 2 Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement assignment.

Note: Be sure to review your feedback on the Week 2 paper and make any necessary revisions.

Slide 3: Identify the three strategies, tools, or resources that you explored in the SSC.

Slide 4: Explain how you will use the first strategy, tool, or resource from the SSC to address the areas of opportunities for improvement you discussed in the Week 2 paper.

Describe the tool, strategy, or resource.

Describe what area of opportunity the tool will address.

Explain how you could use this tool to help you address your area of opportunity.

Slide 5: Explain how you will use the second strategy, tool, or resource from the SSC to address the areas of opportunities for improvement you discussed in the Week 2 paper.

Describe the tool, strategy, or resource.

Describe what area of opportunity the tool will address.

Explain how you could use this tool to help you address your area of opportunity.

Slide 6: Explain how you will use the third strategy, tool, or resource from the SSC to address the areas of opportunities for improvement you discussed in the Week 2 paper.

Describe the tool, strategy, or resource.

Describe what area of opportunity the tool will address.

Explain how you could use this tool to help you address your area of opportunity.

 

ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success

Week 5 Assignment  

Personal Development Plan

For your final project, you have an exciting opportunity to apply all that you learned throughout this class as you create your own Personal Development Plan. Why a Personal Development Plan? Personal development expert Jim Rohn says, “When you look at successful people, you will almost always discover a plan behind their success. It is the foundation for success” (Rohn, as cited in Valchanova, 2018). To achieve your goals and dreams, figuring it out as you go along is not the most effective approach. A personal development plan helps you identify where you are headed, and how you’ll get there, with specifics and intentionality (Valchanova, 2018).

This final project provides an opportunity to create a workable plan for your academic and career-focused goals. In this Personal Development Plan, you will create professional and academic SMART goals, and reflect on the impact of mindfulness and motivation on achieving your goals. Note that this final project will be uploaded in your Folio and be included as part of your earned points when the assignment is graded. Pay attention to the Folio instructions below and the grading rubric.

 Prepare:

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

Reflect on what you have learned about yourself as a result of this class.

View the Week 5 Model Assignment (Links to an external site.).

Review the grading rubric  (Links to an external site.)for this assignment.

Watch the Personal Development Plan Overview (Links to an external site.)

Personal Development Plan Overview (Links to an external site.)

 Write:

To complete your final project,

Download the Personal Development Plan template  downloadand complete each section. Save the completed template to your computer.

First, upload your project to Folio and paste the link to your Folio project as a comment in Waypoint (see the Add Final Project to Folio section below for instructions).

Next, submit your final project to Waypoint for evaluation. Be sure to double-check that it was properly saved and uploaded successfully.

In your Personal Development Plan template, you will complete the following:

SMART Goals:

Write a SMART goal related to your academic development or refinement.

Write a SMART goal related to your professional development or refinement.

Strengths and Skills:

Describe three skills or strengths that can help you achieve your academic development goal.

Describe three skills or strengths that can help you achieve your professional development goal.

Challenges and Obstacles:

Describe two challenges, threats, or obstacles that could get in the way of achieving your academic

Describe two challenges, threats, or obstacles that could get in the way of achieving your professional

Action Plan:

Describe three specific next steps to take to achieve your academic goal within your timeframe.

Describe three specific next steps to take to achieve your professional goal within your timeframe.

Support Resources:

Describe two resources or supports that could help you achieve your academic

Describe two resources or supports that could help you achieve your professional

Monitoring Progress:

Describe one plan, strategy, or tool you will use to monitor or measure your progress toward your academic

Describe one plan, strategy, or tool you will use to monitor or measure your progress toward your professional

Written Reflection:

Explain how being mindful of your?strengths, skills, and?potential challenges or obstacles can impact your personal, academic, and professional growth in a minimum of 200 words.

Describe how having grit, integrity, and a growth mindset contributes to your goal attainment in a minimum of 200 words.