Your Product and Goal
Your Product and Goal
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Your project needs to be meaningful and challenging. Successful goals have five elements:
Your project needs to be meaningful and challenging. Successful goals have five elements:
1. Find a topic that interests you
1. Find a topic that interests you
You will work on this project for the next six months. Make sure you choose something that you find personally interesting and challenging!
2. What makes this project meaningful?
2. What makes this project meaningful?
Successful goals connect to the world and are meaningful. Choose one of the following as a connection for your project.
Connect your project to an existing CAS or community group (check with your Service As Action Coordinator and/or CAS Coordinator for more information)
Connect your project to an existing CAS or community group (check with your Service As Action Coordinator and/or CAS Coordinator for more information)
or, connect with a topic/subject you learned at school
3. Learning Goal
3. Learning Goal
What do you want to learn from your project? You could identify a skill or a topic you'd like to learn more about.
4. Product Goal
4. Product Goal
What do you want to create for your project? You project could have a physical product or an (intangible) outcome.
5. Make your Goal SMART
5. Make your Goal SMART
Your final stage of goal setting is to make sure your goal is SMART. Evaluate it against each criteria.
Goal Worksheet
Goal Worksheet
Here's a template for recording your goal to share with your supervisor. (Hint! Add this to your process journal!)
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