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Mastering Time Management for Academic Success

Learn the importance of time management to successfully graduate, maintain work-life balance, and avoid consequences of poor time management in education. Discover strategies, techniques, and tools for effective time management to enhance productivity and reduce procrastination.

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Mastering Time Management for Academic Success

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  1. By Academic Advising Office

  2. Why do you want to manage your time? • Successfully graduate • Doing good in courses/classes • To be able to enjoy hobbies, interests, sports etc. • Work/Life balance

  3. Importance of Time Management in AUCA • Independent Study • 4 hours per one class in lecture or seminar given so much freedom, students need to know how to manage their time. Some students are overwhelmed with the freedom they receive and are not able to cope with classes and assignments

  4. Consequences • Failing to keep up with the classes • Failing or getting low grades for classes • Failing to keep up with Graduation Requirements, thus staying for the fifth year • Losing the Financial Aid • Being on Academic Probation • Spending very little time with Family, Friends and Yourself • Not being able to enjoy your hobbies • Not having time for anything except studies • Depression

  5. Procrastination • Step 1. When and in what situations do you consistently procrastinate? • Become aware of when you are avoiding something and write it down. Then analyze the list – You will find a pattern.

  6. Procrastination • Step 2. What you do instead? • Most likely “low-priority” task to avoid the “big” one.

  7. Procrastination • Step 3. Motivate yourself • Reward yourself

  8. Time-Management Techniques • 1. Analyze • Your day and daily habits • Your class related assignments • Extra-curricular activities (Volunteering, Hobbies, Sport, Interests etc.) • Family or Friends • Based on the above create a daily or weekly or monthly planner or yearly planner

  9. Time Management Techniques • 2. Create a convenient form • Paper based form • Planners • Calendars • Notebooks • Journals • Diaries • Electronic (phones, tablets, computers etc.) • Google calendars • Planners • Applications • * have it all in one place • * time box

  10. Time-Management Techniques • 3. Set the priorities (with regard to your goals, circumstances, needs etc.) • Both Macro and Micro

  11. Time-Management Techniques 4. Making lists • My schedule (For the entire year, day by day) • To do list (mark priorities by As,Bs,Cs) • People to contact list (prioritized in alphabetical order), could be adjusted to your lifestyle “You have to get some sort of regimented, regularly used list-making system working for you. If you aren’t making lists, you probably aren’t making a lot of money either.”

  12. Tuning Out Digital Distractions • To overcome digital distractions, try any of these programs designed to help you gain control over your time • Self Control http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/ • Freedom http://macfreedom.com/ • Rescue Time https://www.rescuetime.com/ • Vitamin R http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/ • Concentrate http://www.getconcentrating.com/ • https://freedom.to/welcome • https://www.focusboosterapp.com// • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji • Demonstrate it (anyone would like to volunteer?)

  13. Practice • Distribute the Priority Chart • Assignment: • 1st. With students write on the board everything that needs to be done in a day • 2nd Make a schedule right in the class using the priority chart

  14. References • http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229772 • http://www.unstuck.com/how-we-procrastinate.html • http://www.ideels.uni-bremen.de/FirstThingsFirstChart.pdf • http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/skills/time

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