This is a lesson that I use in a variety of courses, but primarily in my Career Studies (GLC) course as the curriculum requires students to learn about goal setting for a variety of different purposes. It is designed as a "follow-along" lesson with corresponding activity, with the optional feature of teaching students how to take notes during the lesson itself, with a device/computer in front of them as this course is often taught in a computer lab.

Resources are provided as a Google Slide file that guides students through the lesson. The discussion starts with a focus on one of the learning skills that students are evaluated on throughout the course, Self-Regulation, which tends to focus on a student's ability to set goals and follow through with them. Two videos are also integrated into the slideshow that helps to explain what SMART Goals are and provides students with an example. A link to the individual SMART Goal creation activity (a Google doc) is provided directly in the slideshow at the end. Once the independent activity is done, you can then go over what some of each student's goals are as a class, and examine how SMART Goals can be a useful tool in their everyday lives and when creating future plans.

Let me know how this lesson goes for you – I found that even though my students wouldn't necessarily continue to create goals that are quite as thorough as SMART goals, they do seem to grasp the idea that each goal they create needs to be measurable in some way and relatively detailed, which is a great starting point for any discussion about goal setting!