Time Management for Students
One of the hardest lessons a student will ever need to learn is time management. Millions of dollars are spent on books, software programs, and equipment designed to help students manage their time. However, most times the students start to become overwhelmed with projects, assignments, and the administrative of their time management system. Time management styles are as complex and individual as the person. What works for one person will not necessarily work for another. Student’s can not use the same time management strategies that are used in the corporate world so how do you teach time management for students?
Stop trying to teach your students to be controlled by a calendar and time schedule in a similar manner that is followed by most corporate executives. While, Students do need to be at certain places at certain times it is unproductive to lay out a calendar that schedules “school” every day. Any corporate executive will tell you that it is easy to fall behind in their schedules and they often feel overwhelmed, why train students to be the same way? Instead students should map out their assignments and study time into a to-do list. More in the Effective Study Skills Lesson Plan.
Many times students are seen as having poor time management because they simply have no idea where to start with their assignments and day. A to-do list can help students manage their workload on a day-by-day basis. Instead of being confronted with an entire text book to read and feeling overwhelmed by the assignment, the to-do list can break the project down into manageable sections that need to be completed each day. Large projects can be overwhelming for many people but once you start to break down the project and plan what you need to work on each day, your students will soon begin to progress through their assignments and complete everything on time. See our post on Getting Organized.
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Brian is a writer and web developer living in Victoria BC. He has a BA in Economics and an MA in Psychology. Brian has written and published widely on education, testing, psychology and popular culture. 
I honestly live by to-do lists. They are my saving grace. If it weren’t for to-do lists i wouldn’t get anything done. I am one of those kinds of people that has to write things down, and if it isn’t written down i will forget that it even needs to be taken care of. I think that what you say about how important it is to make sure you aren’t throwing one style of organization and time management on a student, because every student is different. You will have a handful of students that prefer calendars, another handful that prefers lists, and then a handful that doesn’t have a strategy.
As a response to the comment above, I am also taking quite a few classes, you just need to organize your time by prioritizing your work. For instance, if you have something due tomorrow, something do the next day and something due at the end of the week. Start with the thing that is due first, that way you know that it will get done on time, then move down the list.
When you are trying to prepare for a test, the best advice i can give with my experience is create a study guide for each exam, and start studying the test that will be occurring first.
Those are some tips i can give you that have worked for me in the past. Hope they help!
I was interested in the to-do lists. But I am not exactly sure how to make one. Help?
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We will probably update the Effective Study Skills Lesson plan to include some Time Management as well as How to Make a Study Plan in the fall.
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Of course – the site would have to be on interest to our visitors.
Thank you, keep up the good work:)