1. Chapter 3 Essential Study Skills by Wong
Your life will have less stress and be more rewarding. You will have greater self-confidence and self-esteem. Yes, all that can really happen when you become
your own time manager.

2. Goals of Time Management
Strive for Balance
Create strong patterns in your schedule
Include time for your goals
Establish good health habits

3. Goals of Time Management
Strive for Balance
Use the Pie of Life chart to see how well you are balancing the 3 areas of your life
School
Work
Leisure
Use the increase-decrease method

4. Goals of Time Management
Create strong patterns in your schedule
Wakeup and go to sleep at the same time on each day
Plan for your peak-energy times

5. Goals of Time Management
Establish good health habits
Your brain is part of your body
Take care of your body and your brain will take care of you
Plan meals that will help you with your schedule

6. Goals of Time Management
Set time aside on Sunday to create the weeks time management schedule

7. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule
Include your fixed activities
Include fixed study times for each class
Add several flexible study blocks
Add time for specific goals and other responsibilities
Include leisure, social time etc.

8. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule Things to Consider
Alert times of the day
Study the hardest subject early in the day
Study right before class if the class is a discussion group
Study right after class if it is heavy in lecture i.e. Math class

9. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule Things to Consider
Plan to study 1 subject for about 50 minutes and take a 10 minute break
Try to have at least 1 study block every day for each subject
(this includes weekends)
this is called Distributed Practice

11. Distributed Practice
Allows you time for things to be considered. This helps you to build a basic background and gives you the opportunity to explore the subject in ways you would not have time for if you just quickly learned it. It gives you the means to strengthen your short- term memory which will help your long-term memory to retrieve it.

12. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule
Include your fixed activities
Fixed activities are your responsibilities that do not change from week to week.
Examples:
Class time, work, meals and sleep, etc.

13. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule
Include fixed study times for each class
Time on task means that you should spend the appropriate time on studying that it takes i.e. 2:1 ratio. For every hour you are in class you should spend 2 studying for it. If you do not use the 2:1 you should have a good, clearly justified reason why you are not!

14. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule
Add several flexible study blocks
These are used as safety nets
Use this time to cover the under estimated time of a subject

15. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule
Add time for specific goals and other responsibilities
This is time in your schedule that is there for you
The time set aside for other goals beyond classes that you want to complete.

16. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule
Include leisure, social time etc.
It is important to have some time off from school
It is the time to give your mind a rest
Include time to call family and visit with friends

17. Creating a Weekly Time-Management Schedule

18. Other ways to Time Manage
Inform others of your plans
Trade times
Use a daily planner
Go back to Term-long Calendar
Seek Solutions
Map out your “Self-learning”

19. Other ways to Time Manage
Inform other of your plans
Tell your friends (roommate) and family what your schedule is
Post your schedule so that people can know what you are doing at an given time
Ask your friends and family to help you to keep to the schedule and save less important discussions to a time that fits your available time

20. Other ways to Time Manage
Trade times
Some days might not fit your schedule perfectly so adjust by trading times in your schedule to fit the change on that day
Example: Your roommate really wants to talk to you about an event that happened to them. You have a time slot for later that evening for social time but it is now your study time.

21. Other ways to Time Manage
Use a daily planner
In your planner make a To-Do list for the next day.
This will give you better ideas of how to use the flex time in your schedule

22. Other ways to Time Manage
Go back to Term-long Calendar
Go through your planner to see what is coming up soon
Schedule projects into your up coming week schedule
Remember to update your planner constantly
Hint: Sunday is a good time to plan for the week

23. Other ways to Time Manage
Seek Solutions
Ask others how they manage their time.
Ask for feedback on how your time management is effecting others.
Remember time management is a goal you set, follow the goal setting skills you have learned
Visualize your time management
Look to the environment for help
Monitor your progress (is this plan accomplishing what it needs to)
Record your actions
Revise your plan (update your planned weekly schedule)
Take responsibility (avoid procrastinating on tasks)
Tell yourself (task master & reward giver)

24. Other ways to Time Manage
Map out your “Self-learning”
Daily
Schedule
Weekly
plan
Long-term
Goals