1. Managing your time Setting goals and How do you learn best?
Student Learning Services
Procrastination
getting my stuff done TM
time management
Hyper link to U tube clip on Procrastination to open session

2. Aims To learn how to manage your time
To identify your goals for this year
To identify your learning style
Introduce common time management planning tools, eg. calendar, weekly study planner, diary

3. So, what’s the big deal about managing time?
Ask class - Can we manage time? NO we need to manage our time - prioritise

4. Q. Can we really manage time?
Q. What successful time management Habits or routines do you already use?
Q. So, how should you view full time study?
Ask class - Can we manage time? NO we need to manage our time - prioritise
QI Psychological – reduced motivation, stress, loss of direction, starting late or not at all, self doubt, missing deadlines.
Personal cost – study time spilling over into personal commitments/priorities
Professional work/student – unreliable reputation
Q2. Outside: Planning to plan [EARLY], keep it simple, keep it flexible [works for your situation, free-up space], multi-task simple tasks
Inside: Adjust attitude to being in control of your self management and NOT its victim.
Q. 3 Treat full time study like a full time job, with regular bouts of overtime.

5. Big Rocks
U TUBE LINK to Big Rocks

6. Is your time management driven by urgency ?
Recognise if you are doing the urgent stuff, at the expense of the important.

7. Time Matrix I 2 3 4 Urgent Less Urgent Focus on Now Focus on Later2 3  4
Urgent
Less Urgent
Focus on Now
Focus on Later
Stop before going on
Group work for next 2 slides
Aim: - Through problem solving students to decide which action belongs to which 4 quadrant - as above
- Understand that quadrant 2 is the ideal place to be working is - in control
Students divide into groups
Each group given an A3 blank quadrant and an envelope of laminated phrases of either slide 8 or slide 9
There are enough laminated words for both workshops to use Quadrant 9, but only enough for one class to use Slide 8. (Slide 8 is more student related)
The slide not used in the activity can be discussed as whole group to show examples.
Group to decide on which quadrant the strips of words belong and place the strip on the on A3 sheet
Move around room to encourage discussion/debate
After completed move to either Slide 8 or 9 and discuss whether their choices match the slide’s
Encourage discussion re reasons for choice
Emphasize that quadrant 2 is the ideal place to be working in - in control
What are the effects of continually being in quadrant 1, 3 and 4?

8. Time Matrix – Activities From website: crooked-stick.co.uk
Urgent
Less Urgent 1
Crisis
Pressing problems
Deadline driven projects, meetings
Immediately productive activities
STRESSED
Preparation
Prevention
Planning
Building relationships
True creation
Empowerment
IN CONTROL
Focus on Now
Focus on Later 3
Interruptions some phone calls, texts
Some meetings, some reports
Many popular activities
FRUSTRATED
Trivia, busywork
Some phone calls
Time wasters
Junk mail
“Escape” activities,
BORED
PROCRASTINATION 4
Quadrant 1 and 3 Driven by panic –REACTING TO THINGS
Quadrant 2 Driven by planning and crisis prevention – THINKING AHEAD
Quadrant 4 Driven by timewasters - PROCRASTINATION

9. Time Matrix – Activities From website: crooked-stick.co.uk
Urgent
Less Urgent 1
Personal Issues
Crisis/Personal emergency
Dead-line assignments, projects due
All night study cramming
Tests/exams due
STRESSED
Planning assignments
Attending class
Preparing for tests, practising examples
Building relationships
Having time out -social, family, recreation)
Preventing crisis
IN CONTROL
Focus on Now
Focus on Later 3
Interruptions some phone calls, texts, and personal social media
Visitors/mates who want to hang out
Always being asked to help friends with their work, fix things , child minding …..
FRUSTRATED
Trivia, busywork eg housework
Some Texting
Time wasters
Partying
“Escape” activities, shopping etc
BORED
PROCRASTINATION 4
Can also give out blank strips and students can add own suggestions and place accordingly
Quadrant 1 and 3 Driven by panic –REACTING TO THINGS
Quadrant 2 Driven by planning and crisis prevention – THINKING AHEAD
Quadrant 4 Driven by timewasters - PROCRASTINATION

10. So where does ‘FACEBOOK’ ‘TWITTER’ and other social media fit In?
Note : Some classes use Facebook as a medium to communicate course information

11. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The 5 P’s…
Proper
Planning
Prevents
Poor
Performance
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
BEFORE NEXT SLIDE: We discussed some successful time management habits earlier, and some tools for planning came up in that discussion. EITHER: Here are some more… OR: Discuss some other tools that could be useful to help you plan your time.

12. Try this… Rewards for achieving study goals and / or Consequences
for not achieving study goals
Discussion: Which works better for you – rewards or consequences? Please give some examples.

13. ASSIGNMENT & TEST PLANNER
Dates
11-17 Feb
18-24 Feb
25-2 Mar
3-9 Mar
etc
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Topic A ..
15%
Test
Essay
35%
Exam
50%
Topic B …
Essay 20%
Report 30%
Essay 50%
Topic C …
Seminar 25%
Essay 25%
Report 25%
Topic …
Topic E …
Topic F …
You could use a wall planner (can get free if a member of Student Association) or buy from the Warehouse Stationery. OR there are calendars on Word that you can put on your desktop. In word, under ‘New’ choose calendar.

14. No. of hrs for study each week = 19
PERSONAL TIMETABLING
HOURS
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY am am am am am am pm pm
apm
apm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm
No. of hrs for study each week = 19
1. Class timetable ∆ Commitments (family, shopping ∆ Meals/travel ∆ Study (hmwk, library , assignments ∆ Employment (if any) ∆ Revision (major tests and exams ∆

15. PERSONAL TIMETABLE Work
HOURS
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
5.00 – 6.00am
6.00 – 7.00am
7.00 – 8.00am
8.00 – 9.00am
9.00 – 10.00am
10.00 – 11.00am
11.00 – 12pm
Work
12.00 – 1.00pm
1.00 – 2.00pm
2.00 – 3.00pm
3.00 – 4.00pm
4.00 – 5.00pm
5.00 – 6.00pm
6.00 – 7.00pm
7.00 –8.00pm
8.00 – 9.00pm
9.00 – 10.00pm
10.00 – 11.00pm
11.00 – 12.00am
Using a blank timetable block out your different classes
Add definite commitments eg work, - refer to guide
Identify when and where you can study, do assignments, prepare for tests, write up reports
Remember the BIG ROCKS

16. Goal Setting
Write 1 or 2 short term time management goal(s) to achieve by the end of this course.
Make sure your goals are SMART.
Specific
Measureable
Achieveable
Realistic
Time framed

17. What is your learning style?
Visual Auditory Read/Write Kinaesthetic Knowing your learning preferences helps to know how best you learn.
Introduce Learning Styles Stress that there is no one best learning style
The purpose: to become better aware of different learning styles
to gain an indication of which style they prefer
to understand how they use these preferences
Give out handouts - do this individually
Explain how to complete grid at top left
Ask for preferences - discuss the group’s preferences
Complete Learning ideas activity on page 2 of handout - thinking of their own learning at Wintec
Students to discuss how they learn best as a whole group