Time Monitor Assignment Worksheet
UNIV 103 Time Monitor
College Level Time Management Lesson Plan
Overview
As college freshmen transition into the higher education arena, student life becomes increasingly heavy and complex with work, academic, social, athletic, and other demands that can be difficult to manage. Depending on the semester schedule, there will be competing priorities depending on each classroom's expectations and assignments to be completed. Helping students learn how to plan and prioritize their commitments is a critical lesson. Through this lesson, students will learn time management skills and think about time-wasting behaviors and interruptions that contribute to their inability to manage time effectively.
College Level Time Management Lesson Plan
College Level Time Management Lesson Plan
UNIV 103 (Freshman Course)
Dr. Margaret Mbindyo
Dr. Kristen Lawson
Description |
As college freshmen transition into the higher education arena, student life becomes increasingly heavy and complex with work, academic, social, athletic, and other demands that can be difficult to manage. Depending on the semester schedule, there will be competing priorities depending on each classroom's expectations and assignments to be completed. Helping students to learn how to plan and prioritize their commitments is a critical lesson. Students will learn time management skills by thinking about time-wasting behaviors that contribute to the inability to manage time effectively. |
Learning Objectives |
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
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Resources and Materials Needed |
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Facilitator Instructions |
This lesson plan is created for freshmen to help them understand time management at the college level.
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Outline of the Lesson |
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Welcome Briefly discuss the expectations of the lesson and why time is a critical part of college success.
Define Time Management: 1) The act or process of exercising conscious control…….. 2) Over the amount of time spent on specific activities………. 3) To increase efficiency or productivity
Discuss 168 hours, 1440 minutes, and 86400 seconds in a day.
Time Management Work Sheet- Students will take sometimes to map how they spent a typical day. Time Management Work sheet
Why is Time Management Different in College? Brainstorm session with students working in pairs answering the following questions: . What surprised you about how your time was divided? Where do you spend most of your time? What change would you like to make on how your time is divided? Where do you not have control over your schedule? Where do you have control in your schedule and can make a change?
Expectations
Students discuss how to be More Productive by Using the “Eisenhower Box.” Instructor to help students to really think and evaluate their priorities.
Students will discuss each of the 4 quadrants to help determine what is important and what is not. Have students watch “how to prioritize video” https://youtu.be/czh4rmk75jc
Critical Components of Time Management
Have students watch “create a schedule” https://youtu.be/jozNEpY8iik
Naming Strategies Discuss Strategies… brainstorm as a class some strategies they can use to ensure that they are using their unstructured time for the items they listed as priorities in the “Einsenhower Box”.
Strategies:
Use a timer when you go on social media Make a schedule. Have an accountability buddy (someone who checks in on you and vice-versa) Leave post-it reminders on your desk Write down your goals.
Activity-Monitoring time!
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Group Discussion and Reflection |
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Tips for Time Management and Wrap up the lesson by watching the video in the following link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0hqBIugr7I Have students refer back to their Time Management Spreadsheet to visualize and plan moments in their week where they can focus on the priority items that they chose. | |
Other Resources | ||
| Students will watch the following videos as extra resources. | |