SMART Planning

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SMART Planning
Exams Office Training
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SMART planningWhat is it?

• SMART planning is an effective way to achieve
  your professional goals by creating focussed and
  clear plans.
• Whether you want a new piece of IT equipment or
  to introduce an exams policy in your centre,
  SMART planning helps you to map out the steps
  required to achieve that goal.

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SMART planning What does it stand for?
Specific
SMART is an acronym that highlights the key
requirements for any desired goal. What these
requirements mean is explained on the next page.
Measurable
Actions
Resources
Time
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SMART planning What does it mean?
Below is a list of factors you need to work
through when working SMART. Working in this way
means there will be clear logic behind your
planning which others, such as SLT, will be able
to easily follow.
what are your Specific objectives?
are there any Measurable benefits?
what Actions need to be taken?
what Resources are required to achieve this?
how much Time is required?
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SMART planningInvigilation example
Here is a brief example of how you may begin to
work through recruiting an invigilation team
using SMART planning, highlighting the kind of
factors you may want to consider
SMART
Recruit, train and deploy invigilator team

• Meet Workforce Agreement
• Allow teachers more planning and preparation time

Plan, advertise, recruit, train, deploy, review
Budget, NAA/JCQ/EOA materials
12 weeks
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SMART planning Resources
The following SMART resources are available for
download from the NAA website.
SMART Planner Template (WORD) SMART Planner -
Invigilation (PDF) SMART Planner - Entries
(PDF) SMART Planner - Post Results Services
(PDF) SMART Planner - Communications (PDF)
All the PDF files are worked examples of SMART
plans which have been prepared by the NAA Field
Support Team for you to use. There is also the
blank template available for you to create your
own.
www.naa.org.uk/examsoffice/eo_training/index_train
ing_resources.html