Time Management 2 Skill, Schedules and Concentration

Objectives

• Discuss how skillful time managers create balance and use task schedules

• Create and use effective schedules

• Explain how to create an ideal study area

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Skillful Time Managers • Students with sensing personality preference or

Judging personality preference embrace using time management to take in information

• Students with an Intuition or Perceiving personality preference tend to favor less structured approaches

• Your personality may affect your preference, but it does not justify ignoring strategies. You may just have to work harder.

• Be willing to work outside of your comfort zone.

Pie of Life School Home/Community Leisure

Classes Homework Study time Tutoring Study groups Test prep Lab projects Meetings Conferences Team practice/games

Job Parenting Chores Errands/Shopping Volunteering Religion

Family time Social time Recreation Exercise Alone time Hobbies TV Music Social Media Games

In your notes…

• Pull out your time log and add up the three categories. Draw a pie that reflects your time.

• Write a paragraph describing how you see your pie of life. Is it balanced? What would you change? What are the benefits of finding balance? How can you achieve balance?

Time Management is the answer

Strategies for Time Management • The whole point of this is to change your

pie to what you want. Reduce waste. You can be more efficient.

1. Learn to be more efficient and spend less time wandering or floundering.

2. Increase/Decrease areas of pie- be willing to change your habits (remember intention statements)

Strategies for Time Management- Prioritize Prioritize through ABC Method

1. List all tasks

2. Label A for your most urgent

3. Label B for your medium

4. Label C for low importance

5. Move from A to B to C and keep working

6. Use goal setting and motivation strategies to keep working

Strategies for Time Management- Prioritize Task Schedule Method (use index cards)

1. Specific Goal

2. Date and Time to complete

3. Individual Steps to complete

4. Reward

Schedules: help you gain control of your time Term Schedules- usually covers a quarter to a semester (includes major assignments and dates)

Weekly Schedules- unlike the time-log, these are made before you engage in activities. This is where the change happens.

Weekly Schedules • Should be realistic and balanced

• Blocks of time for study, work and leisure

• Time for class

• Have strong patterns

• Time to work on goals

• Routine sleep

Weekly Schedules When: make it on Sunday

Where: Keep it easily accessible

What: Create a template to use all term

How: 1. Write fixed activities

Class time, Work, Daily routine, Meals, Appointments

2. Write in fixed study blocks

3. Write in flex study blocks

4. Add time for personal goals

5. Leave the rest for family and leisure

5 Time Management Strategies • 2:1 Ratio

• Use Spaced Practice (distributed practice) • Recall is better

• Max out at 50 minutes

• Do something besides homework after three hours

• NO marathon studying (massed practice)

• Have a routine (be careful about trading time)

Fixed Block Tips

1. Label and use blocks for one subject

2. Study every day

3. Study math on the same day you took the class

4. Study during your most alert times

5. Study the hardest subjects first (eat your veggies first)

6. Study before class if you know you will have discussion

Focus and Concentration 1. Reduce distractors (internal and external)

1. The noise: keep noise down (studies have proven that a noisy environment disrupts brainwaves and memory patterns)

2. Lighting: have good lighting (preferably from two sources)

3. Workspace: have plenty of space to spread out, limit visual stimuli, be comfortable, but not too comfortable

Focus and Concentration 1. Set learning goals

2. Be an active learner

3. Chunk down information

4. Crate a Study Ritual

5. Begin with warm-ups

6. Use mental rehearsal

Manage Distractors • Say No to distraction

• No need to engage

• Do not Disturb sign/symbol

• Check mark technique

• Mental storage technique

• Take charge!

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