Overview
This module supports students with planning for their upcoming WIL experience and introduces two approaches to creating career development goals for their upcoming experience:
- SMART
- an outcome-oriented approach
- PACT, a process-oriented approach
The optional assignment engages students with both goal-setting approaches so that they can see the use-value for each approach. By completing the module, students will have flexible options for setting reasonable, grounded goals and feel confident in anticipating how they can achieve those goals.
Details
- Time estimate: 20-30 minutes
- When to use: Before the WIL experience, suggested a week or two before the experience
- Optional assignment: Drafting goals for your WIL experience (approximately 25-45 minutes)
What's inside?
- Goal Setting [TOC folder]
- [Content page] Goal Setting for the WIL Experience
- [Content page] Goal Setting and Lifelong Learning
- Instructor Only [folder – hidden from students]
- [Content page] Assignment: Drafting Goals for Your WIL Experience
- [Word document] Goal Setting Assignment Description and Feedback Guide
How to import into LEARN
This content is available as a Brightspace package that you can upload into your course. For support with this process, please see Brightspace’s import course content.
Creative Commons license
This content from the Centre for Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Centre for Career Development, and the University of Waterloo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You’re welcome to share and adapt the material for non-commercial use, with proper credit and under the same license. For other uses, contact centreforwil@uwaterloo.ca.
This module incorporates subject matter expertise around career development learning from the Centre for Career Development (CCD), alongside WIL pedagogical expertise from the Centre for WIL. For more information or support related to career development learning please contact careers@uwaterloo.ca.