This week’s topics
Personal Development Planning for Law
- Setting SMART academic goals
- Designing a personal development plan
- Strategies for sustaining independent research skills
- Monitoring long-term academic progress
- How to Set and Achieve SMART Goals: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #9
- How to Become an Independent Scholar & Researcher
- The BEST strategies for doing academic research
- Setting project aims and objectives
What you will be able to do
- 4.1 Identify and record development needs and specify priority areas for development.
- 4.4 Create a plan for further improvement.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: identify and record development needs and specify priority areas for development.
Study materials
Videos
- How to Set and Achieve SMART Goals: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #9 · YouTube · CrashCourse · 11 min · for registered students
- How to Become an Independent Scholar & Researcher · YouTube · Kaelyn Grace Apple, The Historian · 17 min · for registered students
- The BEST strategies for doing academic research · YouTube · Smart Student · 14 min · for registered students
- Setting project aims and objectives · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
Further resources
- College Success, 4.1: Defining Values and Setting Goals · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 104–109 · for registered students
- Principles of Management, ch. 9.5: SMART goals · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; p. 259 · for registered students
- College Success Concise, ch. 8: Planning Your Future · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 205–235 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
