Student Success plan
In order to achieve your personal and career goals, you need to reflect on your strengths and values. Accomplishing your goals requires a clear vision and an action plan. Nothing happens by itself. In this task, you will review your strengths and values to develop personal and career-related goal statements. You will also create a student success plan that articulates those goals and the action steps you will take to achieve your goals. (A student success plan is a planning tool that includes your goal statements, action steps, and the identification of obstacles and supports that you may encounter in reaching your goals.)
Step 1: Complete Your Personal Goal Statement
1. Write your personal goal statement.
2. Identify at least three action steps that are required to achieve your personal goal; remember to be specific.
3. For each action step
Step 2: Complete Your Career Goal Statement
1. Write your career goal statement.
2. Identify at least three action steps that are required to achieve your career goal; remember to be specific
3. For each action step Identify any potential obstacles that may prevent you from reaching your goal.
Step 3: Develop a Course Goal Statement
1. Write a course goal statement that identifies what you hope to accomplish during this course to further your personal and career goals.
2. Identify at least three action steps that are required to achieve your course goal; remember to be specific.
3. For each action step
Step 4: Reflection
1. Write two or three sentences reflecting on how you will apply your skills (strengths, values, leadership) to accomplish your personal, career, and course goals.
2. Write two or three sentences reflecting on what in-school supports you have in place (courses, activities, networks) to accomplish your personal, career, and course goals.
3. Write two or three sentences reflecting on what out-of-school supports you have in place (programs, activities, networks) to accomplish your personal, career, and course goals.
4. Write two or three sentences reflecting on what social supports (family, peers, community) you have in place to accomplish your personal, career, and course goals.
Step 1: Complete Your Personal Goal Statement
1. Write your personal goal statement.
2. Identify at least three action steps that are required to achieve your personal goal; remember to be specific.
3. For each action step
- Identify any potential obstacles that may prevent you from reaching your goal.
- Identify any potential supports that you have in place to achieve this goal.
- Write one or two sentences describing how you will resolve any potential barriers if the obstacle does arise.
Step 2: Complete Your Career Goal Statement
1. Write your career goal statement.
2. Identify at least three action steps that are required to achieve your career goal; remember to be specific
3. For each action step Identify any potential obstacles that may prevent you from reaching your goal.
- Identify any potential supports that you have in place to achieve this goal.
- Write one or two sentences describing how you will resolve any potential barriers if the obstacle does arise.
Step 3: Develop a Course Goal Statement
1. Write a course goal statement that identifies what you hope to accomplish during this course to further your personal and career goals.
2. Identify at least three action steps that are required to achieve your course goal; remember to be specific.
3. For each action step
- Identify any potential obstacles that may impact this action step.
- Identify any potential supports that you have in place to achieve these action steps.
- Write one or two sentences describing how you will resolve any potential barriers.
Step 4: Reflection
1. Write two or three sentences reflecting on how you will apply your skills (strengths, values, leadership) to accomplish your personal, career, and course goals.
2. Write two or three sentences reflecting on what in-school supports you have in place (courses, activities, networks) to accomplish your personal, career, and course goals.
3. Write two or three sentences reflecting on what out-of-school supports you have in place (programs, activities, networks) to accomplish your personal, career, and course goals.
4. Write two or three sentences reflecting on what social supports (family, peers, community) you have in place to accomplish your personal, career, and course goals.