By allowing your students to go through the GSE Teacher Tools to create their goals, you ensure that your classes are aligned to their goals and focused on the skills they want to learn. It provides a step-by-step guide to using the toolkit to help your students set SMART language learning goals. By setting SMART goals, you help your students become masters of their learning process and feel motivated to struggle. Otherwise, it’s an opportunity for individual planning to support individual learning goals and set appropriate deadlines for your students. Setting goals is an important step in the language learning process and has proven to help learners build on their efforts and achieve better results. A goal should have personal meaning for the learner, so it is important that learners can choose their own goals for their own reasons. The next question you should ask your student is, “Can this goal be measured? In other words, how does your student know that he or she has passed? In the example above, a test would be a good way to measure progress to see if your student has reached a level after a long period of study. This is where teachers and students on the Global English Teacher Scale can really help. Here’s your role as a teacher, guiding students through the process of creating SMART goals for yourself. It’s hard to set goals in the language classroom if students don’t speak the language they’re trying to set them in. And if some goals are not part of your curriculum, you can include them if they are a goal for most students. Learn more about SMART goals for language learners. And this is an easy way for students to see what SMART goals are for English. Now you can collect all the goals students want to achieve by writing down the most popular ones. Sarah shared her “top ten” use of the ESE Toolkit for Language Teachers in a series of ten blog articles. Sarah Davila is an expert in language learning and teaching. She has experience teaching, researching, writing, and teaching other teachers.