Unit 3: Create an Effective Time Management Plan
This unit will help you create a reasonable time-management plan that emphasizes an appropriate amount of time for you to spend on school-related work. One of the most interesting activities in this unit will help you accurately identify how you spend the hours in your week. If you work through the diagnostic questionnaires included in this unit honestly, you may be surprised to learn how much time you spend doing (or not doing) ordinary activities. Many peoples' first estimates about where their time goes are inaccurate, so do not be surprised if you have to adjust your first guess.
One of the most difficult life lessons to learn is that, as adults, we simply will not have enough time for everything we want to do. This unit will help you come up with a realistic plan that prioritizes the things that are most important to you based on the values and goals you have already identified and schedule time to ensure that you can accomplish them. Next, you will learn about strategies for sticking to your schedule in the face of distractions, frustration, procrastination, and non-academic personal commitments. Finally, you will see how two basic tools, a calendar planner and a daily to-do list, can be powerful assets in your time-management plan.
Completing this unit should take you approximately 7 hours.
Unit 3 Assessments
How well do you manage your time? Complete this interactive time management quiz. Be sure to record and assess your score using the scoring guide provided for you. Then, study the key components of time management that are outlined below the quiz and consider how these components are reflected in your own time management habits.
Using the interactive scheduling feature, develop a reasonable weekly timetable that will allow you to successfully balance schoolwork with healthy physical and social activities, as well as any work and family commitments you may have.
Now that you know how you spend the hours in a week, use this interactive site to help you build a calendar of when to get everything done.
Now that you have completed the time management exercises above, use your results to answer these questions.