1. Write your academic and professional SMART goals.Remember, you wrote these in Week 3. Review your instructor’s feedback before adding it to this assignment.
2. Write two paragraphs reflecting on what you have learned in class and how this knowledge can help you reach your goals.
3. Complete a self-assessment of skills you have learned in this course.
4. Write about your Live Learning experience.
5. Demonstrate how you are building your UAGC Support Network.
6. Visit Handshake, where can register for this free service.
Need help with your SMART goals? Look at the feedback you got on your Week 3 assignment regarding your SMART goals. Remember that your SMART goals must be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound.
1. Write SMART Goals and Create a Plan
Directions: State your academic and professional SMART goals.
Write your academic SMART goal:
Create an Action Plan to achieve your academic SMART goal.
Strategy
Describe two strategies
you will use to achieve
youracademic
SMART goal.
Resources
Listtwo resources in the
Student Support Center
you will use to reach
youracademic
SMART goal.
Progress
Explain how you will
monitor your progress.
Timeline
How will you know you’ve
completed your academic
SMART goal?
Academic Goal
Write your professional SMART goal:
Create an Action Plan to achieve your professionalSMART goal.
Strategy
Describe two strategies
you will use to achieve
yourprofessional
SMART goal.
Resources
Listtwo resources in the
Student Support Center
you will use to reach
yourprofessional
SMART goal.
Progress
Explain how you will
monitor your progress.
Timeline
How will you know you’ve
completed your professional
SMART goal?
Professional Goal
2. Reflection
Directions:Now that you have clearly stated your SMART goals and identified key elements, reflect on how these elements might impact and contribute to your goalsby answering the two questions below:
1. In a minimum of 200 words, identify a roadblock/challenge you experienced while taking GEN 101.Explain how being aware of your strengths and UAGC resourceshelped you persevere to complete the course.
2. In a minimum of 200 words, explain how developing grit, integrity, and a growth mindset will support your success in achieving your SMART goals, please highlight how these qualities contribute to your career journey.
3. Self-Assessment
Directions: Use the following scale to self-assess your comfort level with the following skills you have learned during this course. Type the number that coincides with your self-assessment using this scale. You will add your responses and put a total in the box below.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
1
2
3
4
5
4. Live Learning Connection
Directions: Now that you have participated in GEN 101 Live Learning, describe a key takeaway from your Live Learning session and how it will prepare you for your next course.Live Learning is the session you attend in this course with the GEN 101instructors.
In a minimum of 200 words, describe a key takeaway from your Live Learning session and how it will contribute to your success in your next course.
5. Building My UAGC Support Network
1. Directions:In Week 2, you visited the Student Support Center to learn about university resources. In the Student Support Center within the Contact Your Team section, you will find how to locate the information for your advisor on myUAGC. For this section, return to myUAGC and find your academic advisor’s contact information. You may either call or email your advisor. You may choose to discuss your experience in GEN 101, your next course or any other questions you may have as you prepare to take your next college course. (Your advisor is a different person from your instructor.)
2. Directions: Joining a UAGC student group begins the building of networks that are important to achieving success in college and employment. Please follow the links provided below to identify a UAGC student group or organization you may join as part of your personal support network.
Creating a support network includes connecting with other UAGC students. Please visit Uconnect, Facebook, and other student groups and list the one you opted to join.
Here are the links to student groups:
a. UAGC Connect: The University’s exclusive engagement, networking, and resource platform. You will find various student groups on the home page. Click “Groups” on the tool bar for the complete list.
– Sign into myUAGC
– Go to Get Involved
– Locate UAGC Connect
– Select Join the Community
– Follow prompts to complete your profile
b. Facebook: Social networking platform with UAGC affiliated groups. You will find a list of student Facebook groups to choose from.
To assure approval as a UAGC student, please respond to all membership questions when signing up for a Facebook group.
– Click here: https://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfArizonaGlobalCampus/groups/
c. Military Affiliated: UAGC Connect and Facebook. These two groups are embedded in the above resources.
– UAGC Military Support and Leadership Club
– UAGC Military Facebook Group
6. Career Services
As a student at UAGC, you have access to the nation’s top career development platform for college students—you have access to Handshake! On Handshake, hiring managers from top nationwide companies personally recruit active students, list and hold hiring events and information sessions, and otherwise network with current students. If you aren’t on Handshake, you aren’t doing all you can to leverage your educational pursuits.
To log into Handshake:
1. Sign intomyUAGC
2. Go to Student Support & Resources.
3. Locate Career Services.
4. Select Visit Handshake.
5. Follow prompts to complete your profile.
6. Take a Screenshot of your profile and copy and paste it into this section.
This Personal Development Plan pulls together your SMART goals, reflections on learning, a skills self-assessment, your Live Learning experience, and your support network. Revisit your Week 3 feedback and make the whole plan concrete and forward-looking.
Key takeaways
- Refine your academic and professional SMART goals using Week 3 feedback.
- Reflect on what you learned and how it helps you reach those goals.
- Complete an honest skills self-assessment.
- Cover your Live Learning experience and support network (UAGC, Handshake).
- Keep goals Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.
SMART goals
Revise your Week 3 academic and professional goals with your instructor’s feedback. Make each one specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound — e.g., ‘Earn a 3.5 GPA this year by studying 10 hours weekly.’
Reflection and self-assessment
Write two paragraphs on what you learned in the class and how that knowledge supports your goals. Then complete an honest self-assessment of the skills you built — strengths and areas to develop.
Live Learning and support network
Describe your Live Learning experience and what you took from it. Show how you’re building your UAGC support network and register on Handshake for career support.
Format
Address each numbered element and keep it personal and actionable.