The document outlines academic success strategies specifically tailored for transfer students, with a focus on managing procrastination and enhancing time management skills. It provides practical advice for creating semester and weekly schedules, prioritizing tasks, and incorporating self-care into busy routines. The content includes strategies for breaking down large assignments and effectively planning study time based on credit hours.

1. Academic Success Strategies for
Transfer Students
Instructor: Dawn Adolfson, MS

2. Procrastination
What do we tell ourselves when we
procrastinate?

3. Module 3: Task Management &
Self-Regulated Learning

4. Procrastination
•Why do we
procrastinate?
•How can we stop
procrastinating?
•How can we avoid
distractions?

5. Time Management
With a classmate:
• How do you manage and
organize your time?
• Do you ever run out of time to
finish your to-do list?
• What tools, apps, or resources
do you use?

6. What is Time Management?
• Simply how you organize your time and schedule
• Make decisions on what you prioritize your time
• Do you go to that party when you have a test the next day?
• Create effective daily habits
• Wake up and go to sleep at the same time everyday
• Schedule time to study, sleep, and take care of yourself

7. Create Your Semester Calendar
• Use a month view to write down all tests, quizzes, and assignment
due dates
• Mark out any days that you won’t work (ex. spring break, birthdays,
travel)
• Use different colors for each of your classes, work and personal
appointments

8. Semester Calendar

9. Semester Calendar

10. Create a Weekly Schedule
1. Class and work schedule
2. Other commitments (clubs, sports, volunteering, etc.)
3. Self-care (sleep, eating, chores, exercise, personal care, social)
• Schedule your wake up and go to sleep times
• Schedule time for exercise and being with friends
4. Study time
• Study time = credit hours x 3 (juniors & seniors)
• 15 credit hours x 3 = 45 study hours per week

11. Add Class Schedule

12. Add Other Schedule

13. Add Study and Personal

14. Task Management
• Compared to time management?
• Plan for daily and weekly tasks
• Ex: readings, practice problems, discussion forums
• Plan study time for quizzes and tests
• Break down large assignments into manageable parts
• Create task to-do list
• Predict how much time you need for each task
• Assign separate due dates for each subtask

15. Weekly Schedule

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