Over the course of this semester I planned on learning German. However, my SMART Goal has not been accomplished. My original plan was to learn specifically conversational German, I was going to measure my progress by giving myself quizzes frequently, I thought that it would attainable because I had learned a good majority of Spanish in a semester, it was a reasonable goal because I thought it was attainable and the time parameter was within the course of the semester. However, as I hypothesized would happen, life and school got in the way of accomplishing my goal. In my second reflection journal, I decided to try and modify my goal to make it more attainable; however, that fell through. Sadly, I have not worked on my goal as I desired. Being
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Due to this change, my free time has been spent watching television in Spanish, listening to Spanish music, and talking in as much Spanish as possible. Spanish and German have almost zero in common thus, trying to learn both has been unsuccessful. Realistically, the best way for me to accomplish my goal is to take a class. I do plan on taking German when I transfer to my four year school; after earning enough credits to receive a minor in Spanish. Motivation is defined simply as, “goal-directed behavior,” (290). Abraham Maslow designed a hierarchy of needs, these needs include: physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs. Each of these needs can be associated with my SMART-Goal. Maslow defines the physiological needs as the basic necessities to life; a way that my goal could be used to assist that is that if I am in a part of Germany that does not speak any English I would be able to ask for water or food, which are the basic necessities to life. Safety needs not only pertain to a physically safe need but also a structural need, or more so defined as, “the need to feel that the world is organized and predictable; the need to feel safe. My goal
Due to this change, my free time has been spent watching television in Spanish, listening to Spanish music, and talking in as much Spanish as possible. Spanish and German have almost zero in common thus, trying to learn both has been unsuccessful. Realistically, the best way for me to accomplish my goal is to take a class. I do plan on taking German when I transfer to my four year school; after earning enough credits to receive a minor in Spanish. Motivation is defined simply as, “goal-directed behavior,” (290). Abraham Maslow designed a hierarchy of needs, these needs include: physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs. Each of these needs can be associated with my SMART-Goal. Maslow defines the physiological needs as the basic necessities to life; a way that my goal could be used to assist that is that if I am in a part of Germany that does not speak any English I would be able to ask for water or food, which are the basic necessities to life. Safety needs not only pertain to a physically safe need but also a structural need, or more so defined as, “the need to feel that the world is organized and predictable; the need to feel safe. My goal