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Setting goals lesson

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Icon person 11 - 19

Time to complete

30 - 40 minutes

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This lesson is designed to help students set achievable goals to work towards. It includes group discussions, SMART targets and motivational techniques.

By the end of the activity students will be able to:

  • Identify the smaller steps and strategies they need to take to work towards a larger goal
  • Understand what the SMART acronym stands for and how this strategy can be used to make goals attainable
  • Recognise how developing a growth mindset can help reach goals

Curriculum tags

Goal setting Character development Resilience Being enterprising Personal development

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