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The Summer Holidays: Time management skills

Extended Project Qualification. The Summer Holidays: Time management skills. Time management. What techniques can you think of to help you: Manage your time Manage yourself Manage your environment. How much time to spend. 90 hours total independent study

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The Summer Holidays: Time management skills

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  1. Extended Project Qualification The Summer Holidays:Time management skills

  2. Time management What techniques can you think of to help you: • Manage your time • Manage yourself • Manage your environment

  3. How much time to spend • 90 hours total independent study • Estimate about half of this time will be spent on research i.e. 45 hours • 8 weeks of summer holiday • Approximately 6 hours per week • Of course, you may choose to divide up your time in a number of ways...

  4. How to use your time • Keep a diary Note what you did, sources you used, thoughts and reflections, next steps • Do some initial reading Identify a range of sources • Review your plans Clarify your thinking and devise some key questions (3-5) • Begin some serious note-making Make notes with those areas firmly in mind Begin making links and connections between the different sources you have read • Identify gaps in your knowledge Decide what you still need to learn

  5. Prioritising tasks – organise the Head of English’s day for her... • Plan sixth form lesson for period 7 • Respond to phone call from parent – message said that she sounded angry! • Teach 4th year lesson (3.05-3.45) • Mark GCSE coursework • Find out why tutee was missing from registration • Finish end of term reports (deadline 3.45 today) • Book Gruggen Room for visiting speaker next week • Email department meeting agenda to English department • Plan outfit for Leavers’ Ball • Reply to email from headmaster • Teach 3rd year lesson (10.00-10.40) • Attend lunchtime meeting (1.30-2.15) • Organise cover for absent English teacher

  6. How did you organise the tasks?

  7. Applying this to your own work

  8. Why is the research phase so important? • 20% of the marks are for how well you manage your project: identify, design, plan and complete • 20% are for your use of resources and your research: use of a range of sources, analysis of data, understanding of connections • 40% are for decision making and problem solving The research phase will allow you to gain marks in all of these areas!

  9. How will you ensure you keep on track? • Set realistic goals and targets • Spread work out evenly over your available time • Record everything you do • Don’t be afraid to ask for help • Focus your research with ‘key questions’: don’t try to cover everything • Use ICT wisely

  10. And finally...

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