Reflection on Montessori Academy | Report

Running head: REFLECTION ON MONTESSORI ACADEMY
REFLECTION ON MONTESSORI ACADEMY
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To acquire the dreamt position in the personal life, it is important to set and plan for
goal strategy that will help in fulfilling the dream. Every successful individuals and
entrepreneurs in their personal life has followed this, and the result is very evident and much
visible in front of the whole world. Setting goals provides a person with an inhibition, and a
zeal to achieve what one has desired for a long time (Lent, 2013). Therefore, I would like to
start this reflection with the importance of setting goals in personal life, in order to have a
successful career and to acquire a position in the dreamt professional field. Firstly, setting
goals provide an individual with clarity related to the goal or the vision that one is perceiving.
As according to the industrialists, first it should happen in your head and then in reality, and
until and unless one is not able to visualise the future position in the mind, then it can never
happen in reality. Goal also, pushes one forward. The goal refers to strategizing and
structuring for the achievement of the perceived profession and serves as a motivating factor
(Zepeda, 2013). Goal setting also provides one to narrow down his or her approaches and
further focus on the prime points. Goal setting also helps in being accountable for the actions,
and be committed to the professional goal that one has been perceiving for, and thus a goal
planning helps an individual to not to take any wrong moves and deviate from the vision.
The GROW Model:
I presently, am working in an NGO, in the role of an educator, and I want to pursue
my further career as a Montessori teacher. I have always seen myself as a teacher, since
childhood. While growing up I had always practiced at home with my friends and with my
dolls. Therefore, in order to develop a goal I will follow the GROW Model. The GROW
model is a simple but very effective tool that can be used to frame and structure the goals and
evaluate the achievable factor of the goals. The GROW refer to Goal, Reality, Options, Will.
Therefore, the goal section helps one to structure the goals. The reality refers to the
evaluation of the goals of whether the selected goals are achievable. The Reality also helps in

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focusing on the current situation of an individual, that is, how much he or she is near to
perceiving the goals. Options refers to the things that can be done. The option also refer to
analyse the factors that can make the goals easily achievable or perceivable (Lennard,2013).
Therefore, the option factor will facilitate one individual to focus on the available options and
therefore structure the goal perceiving plan accordingly. Lastly, the Will refers to how much
an individual is ready to take all the initiatives to achieve the goal. It is the most important
factor to be analysed. The will refers to the self- perception, which is, how much on is willing
to and is ready to sacrifice to make the goal happen (Yates, 2013).
Therefore, to plan for the goals, I will analyse the goals through this GROW model,
which will provide me an insight regarding myself. However, to plan for the goals, or to
structure the goals, I will follow the SMART Goals approach or model.
The SMART Model:
The SMART goal approach refer to the goal plan or structure that helps an individual
to strategically plan the goals through the five elements consisted in the SMART goal
approach. The SMART acronym stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and
Timely, thus, through all these five elements the SMART approach enables an individual to
focus on putting efforts and therefore, achieving the goals. Specific refers to the goals being
defined, clear and unambiguous (Letaifa, 2015). The Measurable factor refers to the goals
having specific criteria. If the goals do not have specific criteria, then it will be difficult to
setting the target and therefore meeting the same. The third factor is Achievable, which refers
to the understanding of how much are the gaols achievable. A goal can be achievable only
when it will be in accordance with one’s educational understandings, and will fall in line with
the experiences that one has. The fourth factor is realistic, that is, whether the goal is realistic
enough to be achieved. The factors, achievable and realistic, go hand in hand. If the goals are