Setting-up Academic Goals

To help students manage their coursework in AP courses by utilizing SMART goals.

Students increase self-management and self-discipline skills through goal setting in order to succeed on the AP exam.

• Establish a support time where students can receive remediation or study skills support.
• Directly teach students about setting SMART goals.
• Students set 1 – 2 SMART goals for the next two weeks using the template linked below.
• Follow up with checkpoints where students self-reflect and assess their own progress. Then, at the end of the time period allotted, they either revise the goal or devise another one for the upcoming time period.

• Mindtool.com’s SMART Goals
• See additional protocol here for expanding this idea to include reflection: The Carnegie Foundation’s “Reflecting on Your Purpose for Learning”
• Academic Goals Log

Student Agency Improvement Community. (2016) Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching