3. • Academic success depends on time
management.
• Each student has the same amount of time
each day to learn.
• If you want to be a successful student,
manage your time in two important ways:
– Manage your time
– Manage your goals
• Must plan study time, just does not happen.
6. Breaking
Procrastination
• Know your priorities
• Focus on one task at a time when
possible
• Set deadlines
• Avoid being perfect
• Think positive
7. Time Management
• To manage time, you can
use three effective tools:
1. Term calendar
2. Weekly schedule
3. Daily to-do list
8. Term Calendar
• Use course syllabi to:
- Write in major academic events of the term:
exams, projects
- Important personal events
• Term calendar should primarily indicate
academic events and deadlines.
• Intermediate checks to monitor progress on
projects and papers.
10. Weekly Schedule
• “See” your time.
• “Find” your available time.
• Fill in your fixed commitments: Class times,
meals, meetings, exercise, sports, etc.
• Graphically reveals what time is available to
you each day to study, do projects, and so
on.
• May be surprised to see how much time is
available during the day in the morning and
afternoon.
12. Weekly Schedule
• Shows time wasted. Minutes “add” up.
• Up to four hours wasted.
• The best weekly schedule is:
- Personal
- Flexible (know where your time is.)
• Your calendar should reflect a balance between
academics and personal/social life. With academics
first!
Academics
Personal
13.
14. To-Do Lists
• Before going to bed, or at breakfast, list that
day’s activities, tasks, or meetings on a small
piece of paper/3x5 card.
• When you complete a task, cross it out.
• Review at the end of the day.
• Keep on track in terms of daily approach to
time management.
15. Decide How to Use Your Time
• Use daylight hours.
• More learning occurs rather than later in the
day after dinner.
• Students are more tired after dinner.
• Subject to emotions and other non-academic
concerns.
• Schedule study tasks which require greater
concentration and mental effort such as
reading and problem sets during the day and
early evening.
16. Decide How to Use Your Time
• Use late evening hours to review.
• Keep up with your classes on a regular
basis; you will learn all the time by
reviewing and practicing what you hear
in class and what you read in
textbooks.
17. Decide How to Use Your Time
• Build on active review and practice, will
help you learn the information over
time, rather than cram for quizzes and
exams at the last minute.
• Decide what time you will begin and
when you will end.
• Human beings are creatures of habit
and the more we have a routine and a
habit, the more likely we are going to
follow through on it.
18. Decide How to Use Your Time
• Schedule some time (five to ten
minutes) to go over the class notes you
just took, practice or memorize factual
items.
• Schedule some kind of exercise at
least three times a week. (Physical
fitness on MON, WED, FRI!)
• Time management, exercise and
mental alertness all go together.
19. Sleep Plan
• Sleep research shows waking up
consistently every day at the same time
results in sleep being more effective.
• Achieve “deep sleep”, the restful sleep.
• Get the sleep you need. Some students
need eight hours of sleep, others only six.
• Regular sleep routine puts structure in your
day.
20. Breakfast
• Get up early early enough to eat breakfast
everyday.
• Breakfast is a valuable meal to sustain your
energy throughout the day.
• Breakfast time can be spent planning your
day and the goals you want to accomplish.
21. Time for Yourself
• Schedule some time
each day or during
the week that is just
for yourself.
• Hobbies, play music
• Watching movies
etc.
22. Learn to Say No!
• Sounds selfish, but your academic goals
should come first.
23. Manage Your Goals
• Successful students have a very clear idea
of what it is they want to get accomplished.
• Write out long range goals on paper.
• Answer two important questions:
1. Why am I attending college?
2. What do I hope to achieve by the time I
graduate?
24. Manage Your Goals
• Write out as many goals as you like
initially.
• Then review them and choose your
five most important goals.
• This can be easy or difficult depending
on how much you have already
thought about why you are in college
and what you intend to get out of it.
25. Setting Your Goals
• Goals should be realistic.
• Forces you to think seriously about what
you are capable of doing.
• Set goals that will challenge, not defeat
you.
• Discuss academic goals with a mentor or
academic advisor.
• Advisor/mentor can effectively guide you to
achieving your goals.
26. Achieving Balance
• Need Leisure, exercise, activities of one kind
or another.
• Information and satisfaction coming in is as
important to time management as production
that goes out.
• While in college academic goals should be at
the top of your list. Other goals may include
volunteering, exercise, or athletics. Also
includes joining new organizations or making
new friends.
• As with you other time management tools,
post goals where you can easily see them.
27. Setting Your Goals
• Reflect a balance in academic and
personal life.
Academics
Personal
• “I study all the time, I’m constantly in
the books, why am I not successful?”
• Answer: They do not have a whole life.
Personal
Academics
28. 5 Steps to Successful Time
Management
1. Set specific academic and personal
goals.
2. Create a term calendar, recording
major events.
3. Create a weekly schedule of your
classes, , meetings, etc.
4. Decide on specific times to work on
each course.
5. Make a do-do list the night before or
during breakfast.
29. Conclusion
• You can successfully manage your time by:
- Planning your term.
- Planning your week.
• Using the specific time management tools:
- Term calendar
- Weekly schedule
- Daily to-do list
• Manage goals by:
- Writing them out
- Discussing them with a mentor
- Revisit goals
