9/17/2015 Ed Valenski CPA Certified Business Teacher 1 “Time Is Money” What do I Do With My Time? Ed Valenski (516) Certified Business Teacher Massapequa School District

9/17/2015 Ed Valenski CPA Certified Business Teacher 2 Overview Course Application: Career and Financial Management, Personal Money Management, Entrepreneurship PC Applications – Excel Objective: Create a table that identifies where and how students spend their time. Analyze the personal use of time Link the use of time with the attainment of goals Create a class benchmark for categories of activities – discuss and analyze variances Prepare a table that plans time according to stated goals and highlights tradeoffs Process Overview: Provide students with or have students create the “Daily Time Sheet” (Attached) – Paper or Excel Provide students with a list of major categories of time – they can add detail beyond the major category but provide some level of macro consistency so that the analysis do not become too detailed (Attached) Week 1 Have students create and plan their next week Week 2 Have students compare actual time usage with their plan and create a new weekly plan (This can done for as many iterations as you see appropriate.) Analyze time spent on various activities against their SMART goals. – Create a charts or charts in Excel Have students prepare an analysis and proposed action steps to align time with goals – Can be done in Word Have students create class benchmarks and compare to peers

9/17/2015 Ed Valenski CPA Certified Business Teacher 3 Categories 1.Sleep 2.Eat & Hygiene 3.School 4.Homework 5.Work (Including searching for a job) 6.Teams (Include band practice, school teams, club activities, sports etc) 7.Family (Parties, visits etc.) 8.Community (Including Religious Service) 9.Free Time 1.TV 2.Video games 3.Hanging with friends – No Specific activity 4.Adventures with friends – specific activity i.e. bowling, beach, movies etc. 5.PC non school 6.Phone & Text 7.Reading 8.Arts - Music, Art, Writing, Video Creation, Photography non school

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