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7 DOUGLAS COLLEGE

APPOINTMENT ARCHIVES

 

 

Starting November 17, 1980 Marsh Price will be
working out of the Admissions Office, Room 603B at
Local, 256.

HELPING STUDENTS MANAGE TIME

 

How well a student manages his time may well determine
whether he fails or succeeds in your subject. Just because
you assign a term paper or exam 4 months in advance doesn't
mean the student uses four months to work on it. One
instructor told his class that it seemed students thought
the DUE date was the DO date. In fact, many students will
tell you they work better under pressure. This is highly
debatable and should not be used as an excuse for procrastination.

To help your students get down to assignments
before the last minute panic you may want to discuss
some time management techniques. The trick to getting
things done is not just noting down the due date, but
planning intermediate dates to get parts of the whole project
done.

You can demonstrate how to divide an assignment into
a series of small tasks which each need only short chunks
of time to accomplish.

Studying for a final exam, for example, is an effort
best achieved by planning weeks ahead rather than the
cramming the night before the final. A student's date-
book might read like this:

October 30: Make out a schedule of steps to accomplish
toward passing final exam.

Nov. 6: Flip through all chapters to be on exam,
-Making count of concepts to know for exam.

Nov. 13: Sparingly underline assigned reading as you
go.

Nov. 20: Review all chapters to be on exam starring
probable test items.

Nov. 27: Condense all material onto a few exam study
sheets to carry around with you.

Dec. 4: Make up all the probable test questions you
Gan think of.

Dec. ll: Spend one hour rehearsing answers.

Dec. 12: Exam date: Find 1/2 hour for review of

avericult sections.

Helping students realize that any assignment can be broken
down into a series of activities might assure you get more
things handed in on time.