Managing your coursework and fitting school into your life a
Managing your coursework and fitting school into your life are often the biggest challenges for new students. Evaluating your priorities and taking a look at how to manage your time now will reduce stress, create balance, and help you achieve your goals. Discuss the following this week: List your top 3 school tasks and top 3 personal tasks for this week. Prioritize the list in order of importance. Identify your biggest distraction that takes you away from your task list. Based on the learning activities you participated in this week, answer the following questions: What 2 time management skills do you find to be the most beneficial? How do you intend to use them for this class to ensure there is sufficient time to achieve your top priorities? Are there tasks or responsibilities that you can change to accommodate your educational priorities? How do you intend to manage the stress that is bound to arise from juggling all of these priorities?
Solution
For this week my top 3 priorities for the school is to be on time, do my homework and participate in some sports activity. For the personal task for this week I have to go to the gym on regular basis, maintenance of proper diet and timely sleep.
By proper time management I can easily increase the efficiency of these specific plans. By using checklist as well as scheduling I will definitely improve the overall efficiency of my work towards both of the parts. For completing the school related tasks I will be scheduling my whole day in advance which would be very beneficial for overcoming any situation. One school activities such as being participated in sports activity and giving out proper time would be one of my main concerns and I would be specially planning for the same.
Activities which are related to school but i\'m not done inside the school timings for school like going school on time would be my main priority to improve the overall effectiveness of my study. I will wake up early in the morning and would plan the whole day according to the given schedule. This scheduling will definitely help me in building a better structure for my overall but patterns.
For proper homework management,I will pick a time in the evening and consistently focus on doing my homework on a daily basis which would reflect in my daily life style. This would help me to grow a habit of doing my homework at the right time and to improve the overall situation.
For completing the personal task I will be using the same scheduling as well as time management Strategies for overcoming the specific situations where I have to compromise between these two tasks. There are definitely some task which can be prioritised over my educational priorities. If something is related to my family and health issues, I will definitely prioritise the health care issues of my family on the top of the educational priorities.
With proper scheduling and support I would definitely manage the stress which is generated by both of the priorities. Time scheduling would help me to maintain a more efficient way of solving the problems as well as reducing the overall risk of the problem creation.
