TIME MANAGEMENT
Student Resource Centre
TIME MANAGEMENT FOR THE
WHOLE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
What is time management?
“The ability to plan and control how you spend the hours in your day to effectively accomplish
your goals”.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/time-management
IMPORTANT TIME MANAGEMENT
SKILLS
• Planning
• Time inventory
• Goal setting
• Organization
• Prioritizing tasks
• Progress evaluation
PLANNING:
TIME INVENTORY DOCUMENT
Monday
9 a.m.
10 a.m.
11 a.m.
12 a.m.
1 p.m.
2 p.m.
3 p.m.
4 p.m.
5 p.m.
6 p.m.
Tuesday
Wednesday Friday
Saturday
Sunday
ORGANIZATION
• Organize the information you listed on the time inventory document under the following
categories:
• Essential and Nonessential tasks
• Essential tasks are activities that are required for your academic success
• For example, completing assignments, studying for exams, working on projects, work, eating, exercising
• Non-essential activities are recreational activities that are not necessary for your academic success
• For example, watching television, playing video games
GOAL SETTING
PHASE I
• Use the information from your time management inventory exercise to make a list of both your
short-term academic and social goals
• For example, you can set up daily, weekly, or monthly goals
• Make a list of your long-term academic and social goals
• For instance, these can include your semester, year, or career goals
GOAL SETTING
PHASE II:
PRIORITIZING TASKS
• Organize your short-term goals into a hierarchy, with the most important and time-sensitive
tasks listed at the top of the list
• Organize your long-term goals into a hierarchy, with the most important and time-sensitive
tasks listed at the top of the list
PROGRESS EVALUATION
Progress evaluation tools
• Help strengthen your ability to monitor your progress outside the classroom
• Benefits
• Increase your ability to maintain control over your own progress
• Increase your ability to complete assignments on time
• Increase your ability to make adjustments that can maximize your academic success
PROGRESS EVALUATION
DEADLINES &
• The two most common self diagnostic tools are formative & summative evaluation tools
• Formative evaluation tools
• These are tools that allow you to not only monitor your progress but to note areas of weaknesses so that
you can make necessary adjustments before assignments, and projects are due
• Summative self-evaluation tools
• These are tools that allow you to evaluate your performance after you complete the test, exam, quiz, or
project so that you can increase your performance level on future assignments, and projects
PROGRESS EVALUATION: SELFDIAGNOSTIC TOOL
Title
Due-dates
Personal deadline
Three weeks
Post deadline
Progress evaluation evaluation
Check your progress three weeks
before the assignment, project, or
exam
1— Did not start
2—Started but did not finish
3—Finished the exam after personal
deadline
4—finished before personal deadline
PROGRESS EVALUATION:
ADDITIONAL TOOLS
• Ask a friend, family member, or study buddy to remind you of assignment deadlines
• Keep a progress diary
• Use the journal to note questions, and concerns as you complete reading assignments, study for
quizzes and exams
• Set up bi-weekly meetings with your professors to seek clarification on your questions
QUESTIONS
Dr. Abu Kamara
Coordinator, Accessible Learning Services
Abu.kamara@acadiau.ca
http://accessiblelearning.acadiau.ca/Welcome.html
RESOURCES
• http://bsc.harvard.edu/pages/bsc-publications