Setting goals helps you grow!

What do you want to learn this year? By the end of the internship, how do you want to have grown?

Writing your own learning goals will help you stay on track to reach them and will help your supervisor understand how you want to grow as a professional this year.​ We will start coming up with goals at orientation and then continue the process of goal-setting by collaborating with your supervisor to complete the “Writing your internship goals” assignment that will open at orientation.

You have already started to think about your goals! You can refer back to:

1. Your internship application. The short answer questions can help you think back on why you’re doing LHSI.
2. The self-assessment you did as part of the orientation pre-work module. You rated your confidence in various skills and there was a question about the skills you’d like to use or what you’d like to learn this year. Select a skill or two where you rated yourself lower and turn that into a goal.

IU Indianapolis Profiles

Keep in mind the IU Indianapolis Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success (Profiles) as you write your goals. How might you show that you are a Communicator, Problem Solver, Innovator, or Community Contributor? More information on the Profiles can be found here: http://profiles.iupui.edu (Links to an external site.) 

Communicator

The communicator conveys ideas effectively and ethically in oral, written, and visual forms across public, private, interpersonal, and team settings, using face- to-face and mediated channels. Communicators are mindful of themselves and others, listen, observe, and read thoughtfully, ask questions, evaluate information critically, create messages that demonstrate awareness of diverse audiences, and collaborate with others and across cultures to build relationships.

• evaluates information
• listens actively
• builds relationships
• conveys ideas effectively

Problem Solver

The problem solver works individually and with others to collect, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information to implement innovative solutions to challenging local and global problems.

• thinks critically
• collaborates
• analyzes, synthesizes, and evaluates
• perseveres

Innovator

The innovator builds on experiences and disciplinary expertise to approach new situations and circumstances in original ways, is willing to take risks with ideas, and pose solutions. Innovators are original in their thoughts and ask others to view a situation or practice in a new way. Innovators are good decision makers, can create a plan to achieve their goals, and can carry out that plan to its completion. Innovators use their knowledge and skills to address complex problems in order to make a difference in the civic life of communities, and to address the world’s most pressing and enduring issues.

• investigates
• creates/designs
• confronts challenges
• makes decisions

Community Contributor

The community contributor is an active and valued contributor on the campus and in communities locally and globally. They are personally responsible, self-aware, civically engaged and they look outward to understand the needs of the society and their environment. They are socially responsible, ethically oriented, and actively engaged in the work of building strong and inclusive communities, both local and global.

• builds community
• respectfully engages own and other cultures
• behaves ethically
• anticipates consequences