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Intro to NAVSCI. Instructor: LT Kretschmann, 1/C Advisor Phone: x8011 Office Hours: By appointment, or whenever I’m in my office If you need to see me, DO NOT HESITATE TO FIND ME – The only dumb question is the one you don’t ask!. Intro to NAVSCI. Welcome to RPI! Time Management.
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Intro to NAVSCI • Instructor: LT Kretschmann, 1/C Advisor • Phone: x8011 • Office Hours: By appointment, or whenever I’m in my office • If you need to see me, DO NOT HESITATE TO FIND ME – The only dumb question is the one you don’t ask!
Intro to NAVSCI • Welcome to RPI! • Time Management
Time Management • Why should you care? • Because . . . • It will develop a skill you will use in the fleet. • It will help you get better grades. • It will allow you to budget time for the things you want to do. • It is 10% of your Intro. grade!
Resources available at RPI • Advising and Learning Assistance Center • SAGE 2106 • 276-6269 or www.rpi.edu/dept/advising • Skill Development classes • Time Management • Test Taking Strategies • Technical Textbook reading, problem solving • Note Taking Skills
Other resources • Supplemental Instruction • Sign up at the Learning Assistance Center • Your Professor • Don’t be afraid to ask him/her for help! • Teaching Assistants • Graduate Students who are there to help you learn!
Other resources • Tutors • Register in person (or on-line) with the Learning Assistance Center • Get help early!
Organizing your time • 3 Levels of Time Management • Semester • Weekly • Daily
Semester planning suggestions! • Get a monthly calendar. Tear out the Fall semester months and tape them to the wall in your room. • Make a note of when your major tests are and when major assignments are due (term papers, projects) • List these tests and assignments on a separate sheet of paper.
Semester planning • Break down each of these into a set of smaller tasks. • Ex: Chemistry of Materials I Test on chapters 1 - 4 (one month from now) • Tasks: • (1) Study chapter 1 • (2) Study chapter 2 • (3) Study chapter 3 • (4) Study chapter 4 • (5) Review
Semester planning • The semester has 14 weeks in it (plus Finals week). • Take a blank sheet of paper and make a column: • Week 1 • Week 2 • Week 3 • (etc)
Semester planning • Write down all of your tests and assignments in their appropriate weeks • Then, organize your tasks so that you can complete these assignments.
Weekly planning • Now that you know what you need to do each week, you can go to your weekly schedule. • (Refer to your Time Management Plan handout)
Weekly Time Management Sheet • Every day of the week, there are things that you either need to do or want to do. • On your sheet, block out the hours that you will be in class. THESE ARE INVIOLATE! • Block out the times each day that you will be eating and sleeping. • The rest of the time is yours.
Weekly Time Management Sheet • For every hour you are in class, you need to spend 2 hours either: • doing homework • reviewing notes • reading your textbooks • studying for a test • Budget time in your week to do these things, and focus on your tasks for that week.
On the back of your sheet . . . • List each of your classes. For each class, • Note any new test or quiz scores. • Give LT Chuma an updated estimate of your grade. • Jot down a note or two telling LT Chuma how you think you are doing. • Examples: • “Class is going fine.” • “I’m having trouble with this concept. Talking to TA and Professor.”
Daily Time Management • Now that you know how each day of your week should go, make it happen! • At the end of the day, • Write out your schedule for the next day (3 x 5 card) • Review your schedule the next morning. • Stick to your plan!
Setting priorities • How do you know what is important and what isn’t? • Four Quadrants • I: Urgent & Important • II: Not Urgent & Important • III: Urgent & Not Important • IV: Not Urgent & Not Important • Where do you spend most of your time?
Quadrants • Someone in ‘Crisis’ mode is always in Quadrant I • Someone who doesn’t know how to manage their time is mostly in Quadrants I & IV • If you plan your time wisely, you will spend most of your time in Quadrant II. • A Quadrant II person thinks long term, and doesn’t allow things to become crises.
ABC System • List your goals and priorities. • Rank your priorities: • High priority activities are “A’s” • Lower ones are “B’s”, and • The lowest ones are “C’s” • When in doubt, pick an “A” activity, not a “C”
Remember . . . • Everyone has the same amount of time (168 hours per week). Use them wisely! • Always ask yourself, “What is the best use of my time right now?”