Title: (Optional) Create a plan that includes short-term goals to accomplish a long-term personal goal.
Course: Education for Employment II (Preparation) (22902-18) > Section: Applying Self-Awareness and Self-Advocacy Skills

Creating a plan should include

- applying specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) criteria for goal-setting
- short-term goals—typically a goal one can accomplish over a brief period or that requires few new skills
- long-term goal—typically a goal one can accomplish only through acquiring additional knowledge and skills, thorough preparation, and/or one that requires incremental achievements over a long period to accomplish
- outlining what success (i.e., goal accomplishment) entails.

Teacher Resource: Goal Plan, I’m Determined project, Virginia Department of Education (https://imdetermined.org/resource/goal-plan/)

Process/Skill Questions:

- How do you create a plan that includes short- and long-term goals?
- How can creating a plan for short-term goals help you achieve a long-term goal?
- Why is it essential to create goals that use the SMART criteria?
- How can professional goals help affect the outcome of a personal goal?
- How are goals related to succeeding in your career?
- What are some barriers to accomplishing goals, and how can you overcome them?