Educational Artefact, Reflection, and SMART Goals: A1 Assignment

This assignment focuses on the significance of reflection and SMART goals in enhancing academic skills. The student explores the use of educational artefacts to aid in self-reflection and identifies areas for improvement. The assignment highlights the importance of setting SMART goals for time management and achieving personal and professional objectives. It includes specific goals for improving active listening, patience, and emotional intelligence, along with a timeline for project completion. The student references relevant sources to support their analysis and provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits of reflection and goal-setting within an academic context. This assignment demonstrates how to improve learning and achieve the set goals.

A1 Educational Artefact used for reflection A2 Personal
Learning and Development Plan

Assessment 1
 This presentation will reflect on Academic skills, it play an important role for student’s
success as it encourages them to become more efficient learners.
 Nowadays teachers and schools allows students to use self-reflection method so that it can
give confidence to students to participate in activities by knowing strengths and
weaknesses.
 In addition to this, by having self-reflection the students can help themselves to develop
their knowledge level and skills by just reviewing whether they are performing well or not
(Sibley and et.al., 2020).
 Not only students, teachers also express their feelings, experience and thoughts by using
reflection method.
 With the help of reflection method, I can easily develop my academic skills as now I can
know about my areas of development and strengths.

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 The major importance of SMART goals is that it allows people to clarify their ideas focus more on their efforts
and use time management skills to complete task on time (Sibley and et.al., 2020).
 By having smart goals, I am able to increase chances of achieving future career and personal and professional
objectives.
 With the support of SMART goals, I can easily set clear timeline and makes it very easier in order to track my
progress level and educational success which also support me to know about my missed goals.
 My smart goals are:
 To improve my active listening skills by the end of this month.
 To improve my patience level as it can ruin relationship with my team mates.
 To enhance my emotional intelligence by the end of this week.
 I want to complete my project on time within 15 days.

References
 Sibley, C. and et.al., 2020. Decreasing patient dwell times for outpatient cardiac nuclear
medicine studies: the benefits of SMART goals, scope limitations, and society guidelines
in quality improvement. Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. 49(5). pp.333-336.
 Reeves, M. and Fuller, J., 2018. When SMART goals are not so smart. MIT Sloan
Management Review. 59(4). pp.1-5.