January 25, 2025 03:49 PM IST
By learning how to set goals, students can develop a strong work ethic, become flexible, and develop problem-solving skills.
One might assume that goal setting is primarily an adult activity. However, students can also learn to set goals and find ways to achieve them.
By setting goals, students can develop healthy habits of staying motivated and goal-oriented, which will also help them in adulthood. Apart from these, students can develop a strong work ethic, become flexible and develop problem solving skills by learning to set goals.
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Harvard suggests the following method for high school students to set their goals.
Smart Goals:
SMART is an acronym for the steps required to create and accomplish a goal.
S-Specific:
Goals should be specific so that you can focus your attention on them.
M- Measurable:
The benefit of having measurable goals is that it will help students stay motivated and be more likely to achieve them.
A- Receivable:
Setting a goal that is out of one’s reach can discourage students in the long run. It’s good to be ambitious, but if it succeeds the experience of failure will result in a reluctance to set other goals. Rather, students need to be conscious of setting goals that are attainable as this also makes them proactive in achieving them.
R- Realistic:
Identifying realistic goals and having access to what type of resources are required, how much time is required to allocate to achieve the goal, is very important to ensure that your efforts do not go in vain.
T- Timed:
Students need to understand that maintaining time-bound goals helps them a lot. Goals can be short-term or long-term depending on the criteria. They can then be broken down into tasks or milestones that can be tracked and measured to record progress.
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