Developing Academic Skills Through Reflection and SMART Goals

This presentation delves into the importance of reflection in academic and professional development, highlighting how it enables students and teachers to express their experiences, feelings, and thoughts. It emphasizes the role of reflection in identifying strengths and weaknesses, fostering critical thinking about teaching practices, and ensuring effective instruction. The presentation outlines the presenter's goals, including enhancing academic skills like writing, reading, communication, and time management, as well as acquiring new skills within a team. A key focus is on improving presentation skills to benefit both personal and professional life. The steps to achieve SMART goals are defined, including writing down objectives, developing skillsets, setting deadlines, creating a personal development plan, and seeking feedback. References to relevant literature on SMART goals are also provided.

Summative Assessment

Assessment 1: Educational Artefact
 This presentation is based on Reflection as it allows students to present certain skills and ideas
that may be missing from their other artefacts.
 With the help of reflection, the students and teachers both can express their experience,
feelings and thoughts.
 With the support of reflection, I can easily develop my academic skills as now I can know
about my strengths and weaknesses.
 Reflective practice in teaching involves examining one’s underlying beliefs about learning and
teaching with actual classroom practice, during, before and after a course.
 As we all know that by using reflection practice while teaching, instructors think critically
about their way of teaching and look for evidence whether they are able to provide effective
teaching to students or not.

Continued..
 My goal is to learn academic skills such as writing
skills, reading skills, communication skills and time
management skills by end of this year.
 My another goal is to learn something new in 6
months with the help of my team mates and tutor.
 My goal is to improve presentation skills by end of
this month which will help me in personal and
professional life.

Defining the steps to achieve SMART goals
writing down
goals and
objectives
Development of
skillset
create
professional and
personal
development plan
set a deadline Ask feedback

References
 Swann, C. and et.al., 2022. The (over) use of SMART goals for physical activity
promotion: A narrative review and critique. Health Psychology Review, pp.1-16.
 Reeves, M. and Fuller, J., 2018. When SMART goals are not so smart. MIT Sloan
Management Review. 59(4). pp.1-5.