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Time Management & Money Management

Time Management & Money Management. What is time management?. The process of deciding what needs to be done and developing a plan and/or timeframe for getting it done.  It is about establishing routines, setting goals, and understanding priorities.

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Time Management & Money Management

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  1. Time Management &Money Management

  2. What is time management? • The process of deciding what needs to be done and developing a plan and/or timeframe for getting it done.  • It is about establishing routines, setting goals, and understanding priorities. • Part of the executive functioning skills set.

  3. Time Perception • Awareness of the passage of time • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwvkdqDoqdM

  4. Teaching Tips - Elementary • Teach time • Kids need an understanding of how time is made up • Minutes • Hours • Use analog clocks • Make an abstract concept visible • Allows students to see the movement of time • Also allows students to see how much time before next activity • Use a stop watch or other audio reminder • Create a sense of time passed

  5. Disabilities and Time Management • Autism Spectrum Disorders • ADHD Interventions • Visual Schedules • Check lists / schedules • Color coded priority lists • Timers • Practice time estimation

  6. Teaching Tips - Secondary • Create visible schedules / lists • Schedules allow the students to see what is next and when • Tasks lists allow students to see which tasks have higher priority • Teach students to use planners • Creates a way for students to prioritize tasks • Helps teach planning for how much time to allow for each project • Creates a visible schedule regarding all activities

  7. Money Management The process of budgeting, saving, investing, spending or otherwise in overseeing the cash usage of an individual or group. Learning money and how to manage money is another difficult concept for all students to learn. Having a learning disability just increases this difficulty.

  8. Disabilities and Money Management • Dyscalculia • simple computation • reading and writing (larger) numbers and translating figures into words (and vice-versa) • recognizing and understanding symbols • choosing the appropriate operation for a particular problem • identifying shapes • using number lines and counting accurately (and backwards) • telling the time and working out problems involving time • doing mental calculations • working out money calculations • spotting patterns • remembering steps in multi-stage processes. • ADHD

  9. Intervention Strategies Elementary • Teach coin recognition and value • Skip counting by 5’s and 10’s • Model with real money • Sorting • Daily practice • Introduce only a few coins at the beginning • Work on adding values a few at a time also • Flashcards / Visuals • Parts / Fractions • Purpose of Money • Classroom Mini Economy

  10. Disabilities and Money Management Learning or Attention Problem Challenges when Managing Money Impulsivity Problems with “impulse buying” Memory problems Difficultyremembering to record bank transactions Temporal (sense of time) Problems remembering to pay bills on time Organizational problems Difficultygathering important items needed Distractibility Trouble maintaining concentration Visual discrimination Tendency to make errors in calculation Spatial issues Tendency to misalign Visual figure-ground problems Problemsfocusing on each line of statement Reading Trouble reading store signs, notices from bank, and contracts

  11. Intervention StrategiesSecondary • Continue money value and calculating lessons • Budgeting Skills • Color coding • Highlights • Due dates • Budgeting priorities • Financial Graphic Organizers • Two column charts • Wants / Needs

  12. Resources: • www.moneyinstructor.com/skills.asp • www.teachervision.fen.com/special-education/teacher-resources/6640.html • www.fliconline.org/documents/patffinancialeducationbooklet-final.pdf • www.greatschools.org/special-education/health/928-financial-skills-for-teens.gs • www.aetonline.org/forParents/TipsForParents.html#55 • sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2010/time-perception-problems-may-explain-autism-symptoms • pbskids.org/itsmylife/school/time/ • neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/time.html • www.webmd.com/add-adhd/executive-function • www.studygs.net/timman.htm • www.ldonline.org/article/23676/ • www.autism.org.uk/living-with-autism/understanding-behaviour/organising-sequencing-and-prioritising.aspx • Grskovic, Janice A., Zentall, Sydney S.,Stormount-Spurgin, Melissa, (1995)Time Estimation and Planning Abilities: Students With and Without Disabilties.

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