ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

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ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

• Karen Baggot
• Student Support Service Provider
• Chicago Academy

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Organizational Skills

• How will developing organizational skills now
  help in the future?
• College
• Job
• Collaboration
• Security
• Home
• Manage finances
• Budgeting money
• Leisure
• More time for relationships with others

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Organizational Strategies

• Spatial organizing your space to achieve
  maximum results
• Advantage All you have to do is look at your
  space to prompt you to know what to do next.

• Informational organizing information to achieve
  maximum results
• Advantage A To-Do list allows you to see the
  details of what needs to be done.

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Spatial Organization

• Stacking school books in your space in homework
  by the class schedule order, place writing
  supplies in the same place, etc.
• Arranging binders in your space for each class
• Employing one folder with clearly labeled folder
• Putting the book bags at the door the night
  before.
• Maintain a neat book bag
• Other useful devices Electronic organizer (palm
  pilot, blackberry, etc)
• Using a Filing cabinet, bins, or filing systems
  in your space for old work or work in progress
  storage
• Desktop organizers

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Informational Organizer

• Dry erase board a To Do list
• Informational Organization includes the use of
• color-coding, three ring binders, matrices
  (tables), outline, hierarchical organizers, etc.
• For example, color-coding may be used to organize
  time management planners.
• Assign a different color for each subject area.
• The colors are then used to quickly distinguish
  different activities or pieces of information.
• Three ring binders may be used to sort printed
  information by subject heading.
• Again, it is personal preference as to how you
  prefer to organize. There are a variety of
  methods to choose from.

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Completing Assignments

• Prioritize your assignments and complete the most
  important assignments first.
• Check off your assignments when you complete them
• Have an assignment folder for all completed work
  that you always have with you

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Notetaking

• Take detailed notes in all classes
• Place new vocabulary words at the back of the
  notebook creating a glossary at end.
• Write down the points that the teacher is
  stressing and mark them in some way
• Develop your own note-taking style and use it for
  all of your classes

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Techniques to make notes helpful

• Use sticky notes to jot down thinking
• Each night, reread and highlight key terms and
  concepts
• Use a type of outline during note-taking or
  rewrite the information into an outline or
  graphic organizer to help reinforce concepts
• Use different colors of ink to highlight ideas

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Benefits for being organized

• saving time spent on looking for misplaced items
  thus being more efficient in the work place.
• Lower stress and frustration levels.
• Having strong organization skills help keep you
  in control at the work place.
• Once you have mastered the skill of being
  organized, you will find yourself feeling a sense
  of balance and composure.
• All you need to do is stick to the discipline.
• Keep in mind that organization is a personal
  thing. What is organized for one person may not
  seem very organized to another.
• It is important to develop organizational
  strategies that suit you and your child
  personally.