Topic 3 Setting goals and objectives

There are many approaches to decide which goals and objectives are appropriate and relevant to a specific group of students. First, consider these factors:

Some important questions to be considered before setting intervention goals are below:

What are some of the students’ needs that need to be addressed?
What are the benefits?
What are the indicators that show that the intervention is moving to the right direction?
What should the intervention accomplish?
Whose behaviour needs to change?

What will success look like?
What skills or knowledge will students gain?
What are the expected outcomes?
How much change is necessary?
What changes to the environment need to occur?
What resources are needed to make changes (e.g., tools and skills)?

SMART goals are:

When goals are SMART they are more focused, easily tracked, important to the student and therefore more likely to be accomplished

Consider creating you own goals and guide your students into creating their own goals!

A form to help educators design SMART goals

Reflection: Can you think of examples of intervention goals – think of SMART goals and non SMART goals.