Through writing your learning objectives, you will demonstrate the ability to:

Review and assess your skills, strengths, and weaknesses Explain what you want to learn on the job, and how you will evaluate your success Set specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely (SMART) objectives. Set measurements to understand if you have, or have not, met your objectives. Process

1. Make a list of your interests, strengths, and areas for improvement. Ask yourself: a. What area of my field of study am I most interested in? b. What technical skills do I want to learn during this work term? Please be as specific as you can. c. What interpersonal skills do I want to work on? (teamwork, leadership, listening, accepting constructive criticism, etc.). d. What employability skills do I want to strengthen? (networking, self-confidence, email/office etiquette, etc.) e. What strength areas can I further improve? (Programming languages, manual drafting, surveying, rigging, report writing, etc.) f. How will I know if I am contributing to the organization? g. What areas in the industry would I like to learn more about (HR, Sustainable Design, Hotel Management, SAP, AutoCAD, Project Management, Agile Development, etc.)

2. Please use the learning objective criteria checklist to write your learning objectives and measurements

Learning Objectives: Criteria Checklist

Does your learning objective start with an "action word" and articulate the skill you are working on?

i.e., demonstrate, create, develop, improve, refine, augment, Boost, etc.

E.g.: "Improve my writing skills

Does your learning objective describe how you will achieve your objective using the word "by" to connect the parts?

i.e., by making, by writing, by describing, by developing

E.g., "Improve my writing skills... by developing a written procedure manual, which can be used by any supervisor as a guideline for training new employees..." Does your learning objective explain how it will be evaluated?

i.e., through a customer survey, positive employer evaluation assessment, to the satisfaction of my supervisor

E.g. "Improve my writing skills by developing a written procedure manual, which can be used by any supervisor as a guideline for training new employees...to the satisfaction of my supervisor and co-workers..."

Does your learning objective provide a date you believe the project or learning objective will be completed?

E.g. "Improve my writing skills... by developing a written procedure manual, which can be used by any supervisor as a guideline for training new employees...to the satisfaction of my supervisor and co-workers...by the end of the term."

 

FULL OBJECTIVE: E.g. Improve my writing skills by developing a written procedure manual, which can be used by any supervisor as a guideline for training new employees to the satisfaction of my supervisor and co-workers by the end of the term.