5.3 Encourage SMART goals

With any learning-related activity, encourage the learner to make their task or goal SMART (Doran, 1981), as this can help them become independent learners. SMART is the acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-limited. The headings can be written on a single A4 piece of paper and then details filled in.

Experiment with having the paper in either portrait or landscape orientations to see if this enables different ways of expressing and structuring initial ideas for the task, assignment or goal.