"Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in."
--Henry David Thoreau
Time Management is one of the great challenges of students. A significant portion of academic challenges for students can be traced back to difficulties with time management. How you are able to prioritize your schoolwork and balance it with your other responsibilities will likely have a significant impact on your academic success. Some tips on how to improve your time management can be found in this blog, and in the resources below.
Week-To-Week Time Management
As a student at Springfield College, you will notice that the most salient measurement of time is the week. Your classes run week to week, and it is perhaps the most basic barometer to help determine your efficacy with time management.
Successfully planning your schedule on a weekly basis is a good way to start your journey to improving will not only help you become better prepared for each subsequent week, but will also help you master time management on a much greater scale.
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Long-Term Assignments & Reverse Planning
The semester starts. You review your syllabus and start to put the dates in your calendar when your large assignments are due. You've done everything you have to prepare to have it done on time.
Or have you?
Reverse planning for larger assignments involves not just putting a date into a calendar, but also planning on how to achieve the final objective. It's a strategy used by many leaders in corporate, military and education sectors. It can be applied to a large term paper, final exam, and just about any assignment requiring multiple tasks to complete.
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Reflective Time Management
The semester is over. You're done!
It's easy to see what your grade was, move on and look at the new semester as a clean slate. But maybe a simple tweak here and there could improve your grade next semester. That's where reflective time management comes in. It involves determining what you need to improve by analyzing some key areas, including feedback from your instructor and your own personal experiences.
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