Time Management Tips

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Time Management Tips
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1. Estimate Figure out realistic times for how
long things take you and allow yourself enough
time to complete them. If you find that one
assignment or task takes you a long time stop
and move on to something else. Make yourself a
note to come back to the unfinished assignment.
Maybe after being away from it for a while you
will do better.
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• 2. Schedule - Make a schedule that works for you
  and your family and try to stick with it. Having
  a routine helps you to remember things so much
  better. For example have a set study time
  every day. Try and study and complete your
  homework at the same time every day.

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• 3. Use a calendar Keep a monthly calendar so
  you can make long range plans. Include all
  academic, extracurricular and family activities.
  Post the calendar in a place where you will see
  it daily. One idea is to have a dry erase board
  as a calendar. You can list things on it easier
  and re-use it monthly.

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• 4. Look over your schedule regularly and note the
  areas where you are successful and those areas
  you need to work on.

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• 5. Time for you Be sure to include leisure time
  activities (reading for pleasure watching TV
  listening to music talking on the telephone) in
  your daily schedule.

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• 6. Map it out Some kids dont realize how much
  more time they add to a task by putting it off,
  which explains why a 15 minute assignment can end
  up taking hours to complete.

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• 7. Avoid Diversions Sometimes when you set out
  to complete an assignment certain diversions
  come up and these can prolong the amount of time
  you spend on the assignment. Examples of
  diversions are stopping to get a snack, doing Web
  research (which can turn into prolong surfing),
  or calling a friend about the assignment.

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• 8. During the day when making notes in your
  agenda for what to do for homework try and be
  specific. This helps because later on when you
  get home you may forget exactly how to complete
  the assignments you write down in your agenda or
  the specifics of the assignment. The more notes
  you write down the more time you will save when
  you get ready to complete your homework at home.

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• 9. Dont go to your locker between every class
  change. Instead during homeroom get your books
  for 1st, 2nd, 3rd periods. Go to your locker
  after 3rd period and get books for 4th and 5th.
  Lastly go to your last locker break after 5th
  period.

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• 10. The last locker break is the busiest one. To
  save time know ahead of time what all you need to
  get from your locker. A way to do that is to
  keep a sticky note in your agenda and throughout
  the day list the books you will need from your
  locker for that nights homework. When you go to
  your locker at the end of the day take the sticky
  note with you and you have your list of what to
  take home.

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• 11. Post in your locker a schedule of what books
  to get at each locker break so that you dont
  have to think about it and waste time at your
  locker.

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• 12. Cover your books with different colored book
  covers. Then for your posted schedule in your
  locker instead of saying Homeroom get Science,
  Math and RICA your schedule can say Homeroom
  get Blue, Red, and Yellow. You can also color
  code the notebooks so that they match the subject
  textbook.

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• 13. After you complete your homework at home go
  ahead and pack up your book bag and have it
  beside the door ready to go in the morning.

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Agenda Tips

• Using your agenda should be a part of your daily
  routine. It should be the first thing you look at
  when you get home from school and the first thing
  you get out and look at during the beginning of
  each class period
• If you are having trouble turning in work on the
  day it is due try writing yourself a note in your
  agenda (on the next days space) the day before.
  Then when you get to class you will see the
  reminder note to turn in the assignment

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Agenda Tips

• Use sticky notes in your agenda. When a teacher
  announces an upcoming test, write the test day in
  your agenda then write study for science test
  on a small sticky and stick in your agenda a week
  before the test to remind yourself to study that
  night. Then move the sticky note to the next day
  study and move it to the next day and so on.
  This will help you to remember to study every
  night.

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• 14. Pick out your clothes the night before and
  have them laying out ready for the morning.