Ashford ASH101 2020 August Week 1 Assignment Latest

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.