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Your most precious possession

Your most precious possession. What is it?. Money? a degree? friends? family? . YOUR TIME!. Time. you only have so much of it you have to decide how to SPEND it do you manage it wisely... or waste it?

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Your most precious possession

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  1. Your most precious possession

  2. What is it? • Money? • a degree? • friends? family?

  3. YOUR TIME!

  4. Time • you only have so much of it • you have to decide how to SPEND it • do you manage it wisely... • or waste it? • make conscious decisions about how you use it, don't let habits tell you what to do!

  5. Spend it on yourself • your health • your classes • your mental state (relaxing is not wasting time)

  6. Spend it on your students • by being with them in the lab • by reading and replying to their emails • by being with them in your office hours • by spending the time needed to grade in such a way that they learn something from your comments

  7. Timing matters! • Feedback is most valuable when it is most timely • Would you like to play a skiing game where you had to move the cursor left and right blindly, with no feedback until you were at the bottom of the hill, then you found out whether you crashed or not ?? • Feedback is most valuable when it is in time to correct course!

  8. Timing matters! • Working on grading before the last minute makes you feel under less pressure • Allows you to find mistakes the students have done like submitting the wrong files, in time for them to correct it

  9. Dr. Randy Pausch • Lecture on Time Management • given at U of Virginia November 2007 • 5-minute version here • hour-long version on YouTube - worth watching!

  10. Make a plan! • Failing to plan is planning to fail • Plan at different levels, by the day, the week, the semester • But things are so fluid, why make a plan when it will have to change?! if you must change the plan, you can't unless you have one

  11. To-Do List (https://www.stephencovey.com/

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