Setting SMART targets in the Student Support Plans

Date: 17 November 2025

Time: 7pm - 8pm

Online Webinar: Zoom

Blurb

A practical course to look at how we can make Student Support Plans as practical and user friendly as possible with targets that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed.

We will examine why the targets need to be specific and what sort of background work we put in to gather the information in order to make them more specific.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be enabled to:

• Understand the purpose and structure of Student Support Plans within the Continuum of Support framework.
• Define what makes a target SMART and explain why this approach supports effective planning and intervention.
• Identify the background information needed to inform SMART target setting, including formal and informal assessment, teacher observation, and pupil voice
• Develop clear, relevant SMART targets in priority areas such as literacy, numeracy, social/emotional skills, or behaviour.
• Link SMART targets to interventions, strategies, and supports that are appropriate to the pupil’s needs and context.

Bio

Annette Ormond, Grad Dip. SEN, M. Ed ASN. B.Sc. Psychology

''I am a primary teacher working in schools for the past 20 years. I have completed many different courses around educating students with Additional Needs and I have significant and varied experience in the area also working in SET, Mainstream, HSCL, Special class teaching and as a SENCO. I have worked with many different schools nationwide planning various aspects of the Continuum of Support with them and planning provision in their school for students with additional needs. I believe wholeheartedly in the difference we can make in the lives of people with many additional needs through our understanding and our knowledge. I worked with the Dyslexia Association of Ireland for eight years, as a tutor on the SNA course with UCD, and as a lecturer with Hibernia College on the Inclusion and Diversity module with the PME students. I was awarded the IATSE Testimonial and Award for excellence in Support Teaching in 2017 when studying at University College Dublin and the Louise Madigan Bursary Award for research in education in 2021. I worked as a member of the ILSA Executive Committee.''

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