Time management Flashcards
What are the ten startegies in time management?
- -Blocks of study time and breaks
- -Dedicated study spaces
- -Weekly reviews
- -Prioritize your assignments
- -Achieve “stage one”–get something done!
- -Postpone unnecessary activities until the work is done!
- -Identify resources to help you
- -Use your free time wisely
- -Review notes and readings just before class
- -Review lecture notes just after class
What are effective aids in time management?
- -Create a simple “To Do” list
- -Daily/weekly planner
- -Long term planner
How to create Blocks of study time and breaks?
Blocks ideally are around 50 minutes, but perhaps you become restless after only 30 minutes? Some difficult material may require more frequent breaks. Shorten your study blocks if necessary-but don’t forget to return to the task at hand! What you do during your break should give you an opportunity to have a snack, relax, or otherwise refresh or re-energize yourself. For example, place blocks of time when you are most productive: are you a morning
What questions can help in creating blocks of study time and breaks?
Jot down one best time block you can study. How long is it? What makes for a good break for you? Can you control the activity and return to your studies?
How to make a dedicated study space?
Determine a place free from distractionwhere you can maximize your concentration and be free of the distractions that friends or hobbies can bring! You should also have a back-up space that you can escape to, like the library, departmental study center, even a coffee shop where you can be anonymous.
What questions can help make a dedicated study space?
What is the best study space you can think of? What is another?
How to make a weekly review?
Weekly reviews and updates are also an important strategy. Each week, like a Sunday night, review your assignments, your notes, your calendar. Be mindful that as deadlines and exams approach, your weekly routine must adapt to them!
What question is best for a weekly review?
What is the best time in a week you can review?
How to prioritize your assignments?
When studying, get in the habit of beginning with the most difficult subject or task. You’ll be fresh, and have more energy to take them on when you are at your best. For more difficult courses of study, try to be flexible: for example, build in reaction time when you can get feedback on assignments before they are due.
What question can help prioritize your assignment?
What subject has always caused you problems?
How to achieve “stage one”–get something done?
First, you launch the project! Second, by starting, you may realize that there are some things you have not planned for in your process. Details of an assignment are not always evident until you begin the assignment. Another adage is that “perfection is the enemy of good”, especially when it prevents you from starting! Given that you build in review, roughly draft your idea and get going! You will have time to edit and develop later.
What question can help in achieving “stage one”–get something done?
What is a first step you can identify for an assignment to get yourself started?
How to identify resources to help you?
Are there tutors? An expert friend? Have you tried a keyword search on the Internet to get better explanations? Are there specialists in the library that can point you to resources? What about professionals and professional organizations. Using outside resources can save you time and energy, and solve problems.
How to use your free time wisely?
Think of times when you can study “bits” as when walking, riding the bus, etc. Perhaps you’ve got music to listen to for your course in music appreciation, or drills in language learning? If you are walking or biking to school, when best to listen? Perhaps you are in a line waiting? Perfect for routine tasks like flash cards, or if you can concentrate, to read or review a chapter.
How to review notes and readings just before class?
This may prompt a question or two about something you don’t quite understand, to ask about in class, or after. It also demonstrates to your teacher that you are interested and have prepared.
How to review lecture notes just after class?
Then review lecture material immediately after class.
The first 24 hours are critical. Forgetting is greatest within 24 hours without review!
How to create a daily/weekly planner?
Write down appointments, classes, and meetings on a chronological log book or chart.
If you are more visual, sketch out your schedule
First thing in the morning, check what’s ahead for the day
always go to sleep knowing you’re prepared for tomorrow
How to long term planner?
Use a monthly chart so that you can plan ahead.
Long term planners will also serve as a reminder to constructively plan time for yourself
What is a to do list?
1.-Listing!
A simple presentation of three to five tasks that enables you to identify and visualize a core group of tasks in one place for easy reference
2.-It grows and shortens as you work through items
**3.-Posted **on a bulletin board, refrigerator or space
readily reminds you of what you prioritize to do and when you need to do it (deadlines)
4.-Organize!
It is an organizational tool that can be used for scheduling with electronic calendaring, strategic post-it notes, email, instant messenger, SMS and other communication services, etc.
5.-It can be a Not-to-do list where the time is not right, but you don’t want to forget the item
6.-May help you develop timelines, sub-tasks, etc. to get the job done! (but separate from the to do list!)
Why create a to do list?
- -Reduce stress
- -Remind yourself
- -Strategize completion
- -It can be fun!
How to create a to do list?
1.-Use the simple exercise to identify tasks
2.-Share
With friends, family and colleagues for assistance and insights to communicate what you are working on and where you are
3.-Cross off items and celebrate their completion
4.-Apply the to do list to your daily life
