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Time Management......

Time Management. P.M.Costall. TIME MANAGEMENT. If you have any burning questions, write them on the coloured stickies now, then pass them to the end of the row to be collected in . I’ll talk about the topic for a while, we might do an exercise, and we will end with questions.

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Time Management......

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  1. Time Management...... P.M.Costall ......................................

  2. TIME MANAGEMENT • If you have any burning questions, write them on the coloured stickies now, then pass them to the end of the row to be collected in. • I’ll talk about the topic for a while, we might do an exercise, and we will end with questions.

  3. Things may not be as scary as they seem: • You are not here for a full year, but an intensive Oct to May = 8 months- see the picture of the blocked out calendar. This knowledge helps your partner as well as you to survive!

  4. TERM DATES 2010-2011 Autumn Term Opens 2010 Oct 4th- Closes Dec 17th (closed Dec 24th – Jan 4th) Spring Term Opens 2011 Jan 10th- March 29th (closed Apr 21-Wed 27th) Summer Term Opens 2011 April 27th-July 8th Bank Hols May 2 + May 30th Aug Bank holiday College closed Aug 26th – Aug 29th

  5. You NEED a portable diary • -of some kind. Forward planning is everything. • I find a morning afternoon and evening diary invaluable, treating life on a weekly basis and putting my whole life in there. • Please see the extract from it:

  6. THINK EARLY EARLYEARLY. • ASSIGNMENTS/ESSAYS/WRITTEN WORK • Start work on it as soon as you get an assignment title. • University essays, in general, are not things you can start and whistle up the night before.

  7. EXPECT... • Essays/assignments to require a lot of research in books and journal articles. (Journals: Library) • Not to take too much from the internet unless through Google Scholar, and NEVER ...NEVER ...NEVER ...mention WIKIPEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!! • the writers of texts to say different things!!!!!!!!!!! They OFTEN /USUALLY do! There is usually an ARRAY of different points of view on any given topic. (If you are expecting this, it won’t worry you so much.)

  8. Try to keep up with what’s currently going on. Let small tasks go... • note them in your diary as “to do” later- e.g. in an extra hour at the weekend, Xmas holiday (if you get one)- or quickly skim to get a rough idea of what it was about. • Success comes by chunking. Break things down to bite-size steps, plug away steadily, head down. • Put your deadlines as a day earlier than they really are- as a contingency plan for the kind of emergencies that happen on submission days. • (Computers and printers are lethal. Keep your assignment or essay work saved and backed up and on a memory stick as well. (e.g. the girl who got the sack.)

  9. Whizz kids, or what? • You don’t have to be a ‘high flier’ ‘whizz-kid’ to do well in University, • -what you really need is true grit, stamina and sticking–power. Persistently slog away, put one foot in front of the other and persevere to the end of every road! • ‘When the going gets tough, the tough roll their sleeves up and just get going.’ • But if you want a 1st class degree, you will have to dedicate yourself to doing your bestall the time, investigating thoroughly, and leaving no stone unturned- plus having the ability to express your findings very well.

  10. Calendar- Course Overview: 24 hour grid • Your TIME will be PRECIOUS! It has to be planned and managed. • Check the BLE (Blackboard Learning Environment ) aka web frequently for announcements, and keep your mobile and email address up to date- mobile and email alerts tell you when sessions are cancelled- sometimes an hour before! • The idea is that you will set up a realistic regime including life commitments, people to care for, birthdays, childrens’school events, shopping, laundry, DIY, cutting the grass/tuning cars, chores, rewards, leisure, and an occasional night off. In October, you will need to: Identify & organise -your time(early bird/night owl) -use of tube- train-bus journey time) - your workspace and tools/equipment Identify and plan how to deal with distractions

  11. Completing the 24 hour grid • You have here a 24 hour empty grid, which you can use to work out what you presently do with your time, and where savings could be made. For the moment do it roughly in pen or pencil, and later use one of your spares to do a better one. • It helps to use COLOURS to block out sleeping, eating and travelling times, work and family commitments, and then see what’s left. • On to this plan, once you know what your Birkbeck week will consist of, you can later graft: • -2 to 4 trips to Birkbeck at 6pm, and/or 2 to 4 7pm or 8pm seminars, depending on your subject • -library/computer research time to identify reading materials • -reading for x number of subjects- to keep up with seminars • -reading for x number of essays and time to write those essays at specific times of the year.

  12. You need a plan that is flexible enough to stick to, which will help you to deliver the goods, • -but also allow you to manage the humdrum and the unpredictabilities of life.

  13. Someone said: “Time management is about getting results, not being busy.” • You have to be STRATEGIC and PRIORITISE and RE-PRIORITISE ... ...CONSTANTLY

  14. Juggling • Right now you probably think you can fit Birkbeck into your life… erm ... probably WRONG!!! • Birkbeck may BECOME your life, and you will wonder how you have time for all the rest. • Priorities have to change according to life needs- college, home, children, chores, work, so things move forwards/ backwards/centre stage…

  15. Transitions • If you already have a degree- great. You are in a good position, and you know what’s coming. • a) Switching from other subjects can be CHALLENGING, + • b) If you have been educated abroad, you might find that a few things, or perhaps even everything is very different from what you are accustomed to. • If you have been out of education for a long time, you might be feeling really worried that you won’t be able to cope, ( but of course everyone else will -(because they are better than you?)

  16. But Birkbeck is the most wonderful mix of people from the world, from all walks of life, and of all ages. Your teachers may be a lot older than you, or a lot younger. But rest assured, they know their stuff! • And YOU bring life experience, common sense, and maybe wisdom. But you may need an open mind! You DO have what it takes, and what’s more, you are MOTIVATED to be here- so important in succeeding. It isn’t compulsory, you chose it! • You will learn what it is that is expected of you, and how to be able to produce the goods. That’s where the Learning support staff can really help. Learn as much as you can from your lecturers and seminar staff, but if you are stuck, or troubled, find the Learning Support personnel in your School or centrally, in Bloomsbury or Stratford.

  17. The Time Lord piece by Head (1998) at the end of your handout - may be useful to some of you • Buy Stella Cottrell 1999 or later The Study Skills Handbook, Palgrave -to dip in and out of as you need to. (very cheap on Amazon June 20th 2010): • Feb 2008 = £6.50, • or 145 (used at a penny!)

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