2. Planning Your Time & Reducing Stress (Chapter 6)
Learning Objectives
- Students should gain an understanding of ways to improve their personal and academic time management skills.
- Students should learn best-practice techniques for create and managing their study schedule.
- Students should gain an understanding of ways to improve their personal and academic time management skills.
- Students should gain techniques on how to successfully complete large projects. Students should develop awareness to physical and emotional stress and ways to manage them.
Day 1
o Course Shell Warm-up Chapter 6 Warm-up Activity Practice Quiz
- Demonstrate how to navigate the course shell and have students take the warm-up activity quiz.
o Business man notecard in wallet – 3 life goals (to be independently wealthy, have good health and to be well traveled); Everyday he went over his “to do” list for the day and if the items on his list did not help him towards one of those three goals he did not make it a priority.
o Worksheet – SMART goal from last class; When you achieve your greatest success, what will you have, what will you be doing, and what kind of person will you be? What does success mean to you?
o Watch "The Time You Have In JellyBeans" (2:44 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOksW_NabEk
- Ask “Why did we watch this? (Keeping end in mind/completion mindset, knowing priorities (business man) to manage time effectively – mastery of skill will lead you to reach your educational, professional and personal goals)
- What are your jelly beans – Write down five of your top priorities each day (“What Does Success Look Like” worksheet); Share with group, see what you have in common and share out with class.
o Daily To Do List – 1.) Think about tomorrow; write down your must dos, need to do and fun stuff. 2.) Reflect on 2016 goal and the 5 priorities you listed. Does your daily to do list align with your goal and priorities? Discuss in small groups. Return to large group. www.eatthatfrogvideo.com
o Cause of Procrastination and then…
- Circle one to three frogs on their “to do list” and identify the reasons they typically would procrastinate in completing these tasks.
- Have students provide feedback in their small groups to one another on strategies to beat procrastination as they eat their frogs. Challenge students to eat their frogs in the next day.
o Review of Time Management Assignment
Day 2
o Review of Time Management Assignment (15 minutes)
- Time Management & Scheduler Electronic Options
- Online Time Management Tool - https://www.rescuetime.com/
- Online Task & Time Manager - https://todoist.com/
- Online Study Planner - https://www.mystudylife.com/
- Online Scheduler App - http://istudentpro.com/store/
- Online To List - http://getfinish.com/
- Online Pomodoro Timer - https://www.focusboosterapp.com/
o Organizing in College – Thomas Frank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoheFZaYvLU&list=PLx65qkgCWNJIS5Y_CcxifKHjQKf7iqVv5&index=18 (5.37 min)
o Master Schedule
- Fixed activities include: your class and work schedule, children’s pick-up/drop-off times, church, standing weekly social/physical activity,
o Develop a Weekly Schedule
- Using the remaining “open/free” times on your weekly schedule add your must and need to dos for the week.
- Your study times should appear on your weekly schedule, remember the rule 2 hours of study per credit hour, so 12x2 = 24 hours of study across the week
o Pomodoro Method - reprogram your brain and avoid multitasking
- https://tomato-timer.com/ (Sets a timer for 25 minutes and in the method, you only work on one task during that time and then take a break)
Day 3 (Meet at the PERC/gym on campus; Classroom)
o Tour of the PERC
o Mini-Lecture on Self Care (What is it? What it is not? Why is it needed? End with how it looks different for everyone)
o Self Care Plan Activity Overview
- Let students know you’ll be giving them the opportunity to give genuine thought to their self care this semester.
- Describe each section and ask them to think about what areas of their own life might need some extra attention.
- Mind-rejuvenates your mind, clears your mind, enriches, slows mind down-managing time affects my well-being in a huge way.
- Body-maintain physical health; ex.; Believe it or not, this is the area most likely to be neglected in times of chaos, craziness
- Spirit-calms you, addresses emotional stress, fills your need for human connection
- People-Who are the people in your life that fill you up…not suck you dry. We all know some individuals that leave us feeling drained and exhausted, those are not the people you put here, put in people who are supportive and are there to offer YOU something.
* Ask them “What are you hoping to accomplish and/or maintain with this self-care plan?” After student comments, let them know it's good to have an overall goal or expectation for your self-care.
- Give students 10-15 minutes to fill out their plan. Tell them it can be things they are already doing, inspired from the tour of the PERC or the sample. Warn them that they will be partnering up and sharing afterwards. You can suggest that they have a dotted line that divides each box in half. The top has more aspirational activities for normal times, and the bottom has the "bare minimum" for crazy times.
- Have students partner up and share the following: Share what area you picked that needs extra attention and explain why. What activities did you choose and why?