 Hello everybody Andrea Mayesky here. I hope you don't mind the costume. It's Halloween week So why not? Hope you guys can still focus and listen to what I'm saying. Okay, so let's talk about how to write goals for your portfolio I know writing your portfolio is the most overwhelming thing ever But just remember you have decided to write the portfolio because you didn't want to study for the exam So just have that in the back of your mind It will be over soon you can do it and it will feel great when you can finally submit it, okay? Just remember that so how to write goals whether you have all of your courses lined up or like most of you You probably don't you probably still have to take some courses to get your your hours in Remember it's 75 hours over the three years that you must have there's no exceptions So how to write goals think of what you want to learn first So let's say you don't have any courses. Let's say because some people don't that's okay. The first time I wrote my portfolio I had hardly anything. I have I have submitted my portfolio twice. So it has happened Think of what you want to learn. So I mentioned in a previous video silver diamond fluoride That's what everybody's talking about right now. Hopefully That is an amazing thing if you haven't heard of it You should definitely look into it start doing your research and write a goal on silver diamond fluoride So some goal examples could be I am interested in learning about silver diamond fluoride and how it arrests Decay remember to keep the goal specific because you don't want to say I want to learn about silver diamond fluoride and help And how it can help all patients in my practice Yes, that does sound great and that sounds normal, but the CDHO wants you guys to be specific So let's say you were thinking that to be specific You would say something like I want to learn about silver diamond fluoride and how it arrests decay So that's one or you could say I want to learn about silver diamond fluoride and how it arrests decay in primary teeth I want to learn about silver diamond fluoride and how It can help my clients who cannot seek dental care immediately. So be specific think in nursing homes I want to learn about silver diamond fluoride and how it can help patients in nursing homes They love you to be specific So let's think of other fun goals another example could be Well, we are in a pandemic So you could definitely write a goal about that you could write a goal about let me think I probably should have thought about this before I did the video But do you guys get the idea so far even you know what I'm going to do? Let me pause this for one second and let me help you guys think of some goals on the spot So this will be fine. Just one second There you guys sorry about that. So I just want to share my screen and I wasn't sure if I could pull it up Right away. So I love to use the website at Viva learning comm so that's where I am now. This is where I literally take most of my online courses I use the CDHA I use the CDHO and I use Viva learning because there's always something new. I'm a dental nerd I love to learn. So let's just come up with some random goal examples right now. So I like this one So can everybody see this? I'm sorry. I should probably zoom in more Okay, it says 200% but it's not zooming it. Ah, there we go. So look at this first one So maintaining dental unit water lines in the era of COVID and beyond So let's just come up with the goal right now So you could have a goal like I'm interested in learning more about water line maintenance for the dental office Let's say you are thinking of becoming a mobile dental hygienist You can say I am learning. I am interested in learning about dental unit water lines Specific to a bottle system because if you're a mobile dental hygienist That's the system you would use because that is what you would be carting with you Do you get the idea? So this is a great example of working backwards So I did a video about working backwards of coming up with the goal if you just honestly don't have any Find courses that interest you take them obviously and then this is how you will come up with your goal example So let's say that was your goal Something about dental unit water lines. Sorry guys. That's my dog. There's actually a storm right now And my dogs don't like storms so I'll probably get off this soon and kind of make sure they're doing okay So let's say you have written a goal about water lines. Oh, here's one dog. Oh, hi Daisy Say hi. There we go She likes to come on my desk You guys can just fast forward this if you're not interested in seeing my dog. Okay There Daisy say hi. Okay. So see how I did a search you guys for water lines Click enter and then this will give you additional courses because for every single Goal that you have you can't just have one course, right? You need multiple courses So let's say you literally take all of these so all of these. Thank you, Daisy Would be considered your learning activities and then your goal is based upon that So isn't this awesome? So this is like literally One course two course three course four five So you can keep on going and learn all about how to maintain water lines So let's go back there just to give you guys another example of just coming up with the goal on the fly Let's just kind of scroll down. Keep things interesting Um, let's see here now. You guys are obviously dental hygienists So We want to look for that. Actually, this is cool. I think I'm going to listen to this one So setting up your ideal whitening practice I actually teach a teeth whitening course to get dental hygienists and dental assistants Even those who just just own a salon how to start teeth whitening So this will actually be neat for me to listen to Let's say you want to start doing teeth whitening in your practice So you can say I want to learn more about the different teeth whitening options out there for patients Or to be specific again say I'm interested in learning more about teeth whitening And the products that reduce sensitivity So this could be a very easy course right here Now it is talking about setting up your own practice, but you can you know still Think to yourself. Okay. I want to be the best Tooth whitening person in my in my dental practice that you work for And do whatever you possibly can so let's say that was one of your goals Then do a search for whitening and there will be more courses coming up So you guys all of these take more courses and that um, sorry those Will be your learning activities. Do you understand that see so it doesn't have to be hard So that's what I suggest everybody do Um is to look at vevalearning.com even if you don't want to take those those courses to get ideas For your courses for your goals for your learning activities because for each goal You want more than one learning activity, right? You want to show the cdo that you have really tried to learn and you're interested in learning So thank you guys so much. I will talk to you in the next one