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An Introduction to Professional Practice (Part 1)

Goal Setting and Critical Thinking

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Today we focus on • Goal setting and • Critical thinking

Goal setting

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Goal setting

http://www.mindtools.com/page6.html

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Discussion in groups, refer to iBook if you wish

Why do we need to set goals?

What does SMART stand for?

How do we move forward?

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Goals

Critical to our performance

Signposts to guide us from here to there

Reference points to measure our progress

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Why do we need to set goals

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Setting Learning goals

Image taken from Google images: “student lifecycle”

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Setting Career goals

Image taken from Google image: “lifecycle”

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• Critical thinking is a way of deciding whether a claim is true, partially true, or false.

• Critical thinking is a process that leads to skills that can be learned, mastered and used.

• Critical thinking is a tool by which one can come about reasoned conclusions based on a reasoned process.

What is critical thinking?

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• This process incorporates passion and creativity, but guides it with discipline, practicality and common sense. It can be traced in the West to ancient Greece with its Socratic method and in the East to ancient India with the Buddhist kalama sutta and abhidharma literature.

• Critical thinking is an important component of many fields such as education, politics, business, science and the arts.

• Checkout this link:http://puzzles4you.blogspot.co.nz/ and have fun

What is critical thinking?

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1. Knowledge

2. Comprehension

3. Application

4. Analysis

5. Synthesis

6. Evaluation

The six steps of critical thinking

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Why do you need critical thinking?

Decision-making

Value-forming

Ethics

Why critical thinking

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1. In your studies

2. In your personal life

3. In your professional life

4. Those around you

Decision-making

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1. Choice between good and bad…

2. Based on the values that I have, can I live with…

• Myself

• My family

• My friends

• My colleagues

• My community

Value-forming

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What is my motive for

a) Studies

b) Work

c) Business

Is the concern for others important to me?

Does my conscience bother me at the end of the day in my studies/work/business

Ethics

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Goals to consider for this year

1. Unitec Youngminds

2. Professional development

3. Engagement with industry

4. Possible changes to courses – Project based learning (delivery/teaching, learning, assessments)

5. IBL