SMART Goals and Reflection: Enhancing Skills in University Experience

This essay presents a student's reflection on their university experience, emphasizing the development and importance of skills such as communication, time management, and problem-solving. The student outlines their SMART academic goals, detailing what they learned, what went well, and areas for improvement. They discuss specific steps for future development, including enhancing communication and public speaking skills, improving time management for exams, and refining problem-solving abilities. The reflection highlights the value of engaging in various programs and online sessions to interact with experienced individuals and setting deadlines to achieve goals. The essay concludes by emphasizing the need to learn strategies for solving problems and gaining experiences from entrepreneurs to improve skills and achieve academic success. Desklib offers more resources for students.

Assignment

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part A...............................................................................................................................................3
Assessment Template: SMART Academic Goals.......................................................................3
PART B...........................................................................................................................................4
REFLECTION.............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Part A
Assessment Template: SMART Academic Goals
What did I
learn?
What went
well?
What could I
have done
better?
What did I gain
from the
experience
SMART Goals for
Future Development
(make sure you
include clear next
steps, measures for
success and target
date for review)
Communication
skills
The things
which gone
well were that
I got the
opportunity to
communicate
and interact
with many
students who
were having
something
good in them.
I must also
have taken the
initiative to
talk to them
which could
help me in
knowing them
more and
gaining more
new things
(Halper, Craft
and Shi, 2020).
I gained that
communication
skills play a
major role in the
universities and
everywhere
because without
this I will not be
able to express
my views and
opinions.
My goal is to enhance
my communication
and public speaking
skills in coming 2
months so that i can
give my presentations
well and can interact
with others in more
effective ways.
Time
management
I engaged in so
many activities
which made
me aware of
the importance
of time
especially at
the time of
exams.
I could have
managed my
time well so
that I could get
good marks in
exam.
I experienced
that one must
manage time in
order to perform
each activity on
time
My goal for the next
exam is to manage the
available time for all
the subjects to focus
on everyone.
Problem solving The things I could have I learnt that My goal is to enhance
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which went
well were that
I tried to solve
so many
problems
which I didn’t
face earlier.
taken
initiatives to
solve various
problems
which can help
in solving the
problems in
future.
problems come
at every phase
of life but
students must
know the ways
to solve them
(Grigoryeva,
Shamionov and
Golubeva,
2017).
my problem solving
skills in the coming
month which means
after 30 days.
PART B
REFLECTION
The experience which I got as a university student was very good as I learned the
importance of various skills such as communication, problem-solving, time management etc. I
realised that I got various opportunities to develop and enhance various skills. I considered the
communication skills the most important because at every phase of life as student because I
needed to interact with students and faculties of my university as well as of other universities. At
the time of exams, I felt the need of time management skills which could help me in managing
the time to cover all the subjects. My goals include skills such as communication, time
management skills, problem solving skills etc. (Grigoryeva, Shamionov and Golubeva, 2017). I
can enhance these skills by engaging in various programs, workshops, training programmes, co-
curricular activities etc. I must also join online sessions so that I can get the opportunity to
interact with dignitaries and experienced people. This will help me in sharing my experiences
with them and gaining their experiences. I will also set deadlines for achieving my goals so that I
could learn to achieve time management skills. I also realised that at every phase of life as
student I faced various problems so I must learn various strategies to solve various problems. I
must try to gain experiences from the entrepreneurs who solve various problems easily at every
phase of the life. This is how; I can analyse my skills and can improve them according to my
goals as a university student.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Grigoryeva, M.V., Shamionov, R.V. and Golubeva, N.M., 2017. Role of self-reflection in the
process of student adaptation to university. ÏÑÈÕÎËÎÃÈ× ÅÑÊÀß ÍÀÓÊÀ È
ÎÁÐÀÇÎÂÀÍÈÅ PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION, p.29.
Halper, L.R., Craft, C.A. and Shi, Y., 2020. Expanding the Student Employment Literature:
Investigating the Practice of Reflection in On-Campus Student Employment. Journal of
College Student Development. 61(4). pp.516-521.
Veine, S., Anderson, M.K., Andersen, N.H., Espenes, T.C., Søyland, T.B., Wallin, P. and
Reams, J., 2020. Reflection as a core student learning activity in higher education-
Insights from nearly two decades of academic development. International Journal for
Academic Development. 25(2). pp.147-161.
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