Bellwork 3/25(B)/3/26(A)
Write Questions
• 1.) When you hear the words time
management, what do you think of?
• 2.) List four of your personal time
wasters (PTW)?
• 3.) What is one way to kick the habit
of procrastination?
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TIME MANAGEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
Check YES or NO for each of the items regarding your management of time.
1.) Do you often find yourself doing things that interfere with your schoolwork
simply because you hate to say no to people?
2. Do you feel that you are in charge of your own time by and large?
3.
On an average class day do you spend more time with personal grooming
than with school work?
4. Do you believe that there is room for improvement in the way you manage
time?
5. Do you set and honor priorities?
6. Do you make a list of the things you have to do each day?
7. Do you make constructive use of your time?
8. Do you continue pursuing unprofitable study routines or habits?
9. Do you have a set of goals for the entire semester?
10. Are you still working on an assignment the night before it is due?
11. Do you regularly review for your class even when a test is not imminent?
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ANALYSIS
1. If you answered “Yes”, break yourself of this practice. Give a higher priority to your schoolwork! Who
can you expect to honor your commitment to your schoolwork if you don’t?
2. If “Yes”, great! Stay in the driver’s seat!
3. Personal grooming is very important, but remember that there is a time for everything. Often your
grades are a true reflection of the amount of time devoted to study. What you get out of a class
correlates highly with what you put into it.
4. If “Yes”, use the information in this module to help you make the necessary changes, and make up your
mind to make the necessary changes!
5. If “Yes”, good! If you don’t honor your priorities you cannot expect anyone else to!
6. The busier you are the more important it is for you to make lists. Without a list (or schedule) it is too
easy to forget. You are a human, not a computer, so you will forget something at some time!
7. It is so easy to procrastinate, so be sure that you can account for your time!
8. If something isn’t working it is senseless to continue using it!
9. It is necessary that we know where we’re going . Goals help us keep our eyes on the prize.
10. If “Yes”, work on time management and priorities. Distributed study will prevent this.
11. To get the most from a class, review on a regular basis. This helps you better understand and
internalize the learning.
Finding the
Time for
Time
Management
What is
Time Management?
• Time management=the
development of processes and
tools that increase efficiency and
productivity
• Time management doesn’t “just happen” for
anyone – it is a skill that must be worked on, and
that most people find to be a life-long challenge
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What Do High School Students
Have to Juggle Nowadays?
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School work
Jobs
Volunteer work
Co-curricular activities
Community activities
Family responsibilities
Social life
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Time Management Is Critical to
Your Success In…
…getting your school work done and
achieving good grades
…keeping a job
…maintaining your mental and physical
health
…investing in and keeping good
relationships with other people
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The Benefits of Having
Good TM Skills
• TM helps you get the most out of your
education
• Allows you to be better prepared for the
demands of your life…(decreases anxiety)
• Helps you to assign time to tasks in
proportion to their importance (prioritizing)
• Helps you achieve a more balanced life
• Makes you a more productive, successful
person
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Early Warning Signs of
TM Problems…
• Handing in work late
• Submitting work that is not up to your usual
standard
• Forgetting commitments
• Finding that you often don’t have enough time
to complete a task
• Making excuses for why work is not done
• Having to let go of activities you enjoy because
of a lack of time or low grades
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Early Warning Signs of
TM Problems…
• Asking teachers for extensions regularly
on submitting your work
• Your grades don’t reflect your ability
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Why Don’t We Use Our
Time More Effectively?
• Planning out your time seems like more
work
• Adds more “structure” to your day – we
have enough of this at school or work
• Forces you to look at what needs to be
completed – can be overwhelming
• It’s not fun
• You are lazy or just don’t care enough
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Time Management
• Time Sheet Activity
–Obligated Assignments (school,
extra curricular)
–Free Time (church, games, etc)
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• Finish Unit 1 Test Review
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Bellwork: B-3/27/A-4/1
Write Questions
• 1.) What are two benefits of
great time management skills?
• 2.) List two early signs that you
have a time management
issue.
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Crisis vs. Time
Management
• Lots of people use more “crisis management”
than time management:
vs.
Crisis
“I wish I had more time”
Time
“I know I’ll get a bad mark”
“My mark reflected the
time I spent”
“I’ll get a good mark”
“I don’t want to see my
grade”
“Everyone will do better
than I will”
“I can hardly wait to see
my mark!”
“I feel good about myself
and my work”
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Three Key Steps to Good
Management
• Developing a Weekly Schedule
– to provide an overview of free and
committed time
• Writing a Daily To-Do List
– to provide daily reminders to assure key
tasks are not forgotten
• Preparing a Long-Term Plan
– to promote overall organization and
future planning
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Step 1:
Creating a Weekly Schedule
• Can use a weekly schedule template, a
student agenda, or a computer program
• Will allow you to:
– Organize your regular activities
– Determine your available free time
– Look at hours spent on extra-curricular
activities
– See how much time you study
– Know how and where you tend to waste time
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Step 1:
Creating a Weekly Schedule
• Fill in the weekly schedule in this
sequence:
– Personal Maintenance (i.e. eating, sleeping,
getting ready, travel)
– Your classes
– Your work commitments
– Other Commitments (volunteer, extracurricular etc.)
THEN fill in other OPTIONAL commitments
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Step 2:
Daily To-Do Lists
• It’s helpful to create a list with the following
headings as a way to organize your time:
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Task
Time Req.
Importance
Math homework
Play rehearsal
Science Quiz
Geography mapping
1 hour
2 hours
½ hour
½ hour
Important
Very important
Very important
Important
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Other Notes
Drama Room
Cell structures
Extra help from
Mrs. Belford
Step 2:
Daily To-Do Lists
• It’s even more effective to actually create a daily
schedule and block out the time when events will
happen (see sample)
• It’s important to tick things off on your daily to-do
list as you complete them – gives you a sense of
accomplishment
• Try to put down a little more on your list than you
think you can realistically accomplish
• Breaking down large projects into smaller tasks
that you can accomplish in small chunks of time
is one of the most effective TM strategies
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Step 3:
Long-Term Plans
• Best to use a monthly calendar
• Important to be able to look ahead by at least 4
weeks
• As soon as you are informed of deadlines for
assignments, test dates etc. put them on the
calendar so you can ensure that you’re able to
do some long-range planning
• A very important step in preventing last minute
cramming or rushed assignments
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Procrastination:
Enemy of Time Management
• Procrastinating=immediate gratification because it
delays working on an important (but sometimes
undesirable) task, it also brings:
– Anxiety
-Less learning as a result of rushing
– Reduced sleep -Personal disappointment
– Illness
-Poorer quality of work
– Lower grades
• In the end, it hurts you more than it helps you!
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The Importance of Setting
Priorities
• In short: the tasks that are worth the
most and due the soonest should be
your #1 priority!
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At any one time, you may have 10 tasks that ideally you should be working
on – it will be impossible to do them all!
Setting priorities means making a value judgment on each task you need to
complete based on it’s worth and when it must be completed
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How Much Time Should I
Be Spending?
• Time is an issue: (See suggestions below)
– Ask your teacher for some guidance
– Speak to other successful students in the class
– Break the task down into various stages and
consider an appropriate amount of time for each
step
– Consider the value of and deadline for the task
and weigh it against other priorities
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What If I Get Off
Schedule?
• Prepare for the unexpected – things will always come
up that you didn’t plan for (even after planning)
• When your plan is thrown into chaos:
– List each necessary activity you need to complete
– Define time limits for each activity
– Set priorities within the list
– Tackle assignments in that order
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What If I Just Have Too
Much Going On?
• Prioritize and don’t feel guilty if you need
to drop an activity or two – your health and
well-being is always your #1 priority!
• If you find that you have very few hours left in your
day, week or month to relax, spend time with friends or
family, or pursue your own interests, it’s time to reevaluate your commitments!
• If you spread yourself too thin, you won’t fulfill any of
the commitments in your life to your level of
satisfaction
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In Summary…
• Time management is a skill that EVERYONE
must work on in all areas of their life (personal,
academic, work)
• Successful time management requires selfevaluation and the desire to improve
• Effective time management will require you to do
things you don’t want to do when you don’t want
to do them – you have to push yourself!
• The pay-off of good time management is
ALWAYS worth the effort
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Writing Assignment-1/2 page
• Why should time management
be viewed as not only a
college-success strategy, but
also a life success skill?
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Time Management
• Time Sheet Activity
–Obligated Assignments (school,
extra curricular)
–Free Time (church, games, etc)
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Bellwork (B) 4/2, 4/3 (A)
Write Questions
• 1.) What is the difference between a
withdrawal and a deposit account?
• 2.) In banking, describe the term
interest.
• 3.) True or False: A checking account
is the same as a savings account.
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