ABMP Student Success Curriculum

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ABMP Student Success Curriculum

• Topic 4
• Time Management and Organization

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2. Goals of This Lecture

• Understand the way you currently use your time.
• Plan how to use time efficiently in the future.
• Understand the benefits of an assignment
  calendar.
• Plan one months worth of daily study sessions.

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3. Benefits of Time Management

• Use of time becomes more efficient
• Eliminates cramming for tests
• Reduces test anxiety
• Promotes assignment completion
• Improves grades
• Reduces stress levels

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4. Time Tracking

• Review the Time Tracker Form for Karen on page
  41.
• Identify how many hours Karen uses inefficiently.
  
• Identify where Karen could plan more study time.

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5. How Do I Spend My Time?

• Complete a Time Tracker Form (worksheet 4-2) for
  last week.
• Analyze the way you currently spend your time.
• Identify how many hours you could use for study
  sessions.

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6. How will I manage my time in the future?

• Complete the Time Management Planning Calendar
  (worksheet 4-4, page 45) to plan your future
  time.

• Fill in work times.
• Fill in school times.
• Fill in sleep times.
• Fill in must do items.
• Fill in study times (one hour of study for every
  hour of school each week).
• Fill in leisure or life times.

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7. Benefits of a Study Log

• Some classes require more study.
• Some classes require less study.
• A study log helps plan future study sessions more
  efficiently.

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8. The Assignment Calendar

• Massage Year Planner
• Complete the assignment calendar in your Massage
  Year Planner at the beginning of each month.
• One stop shopping for seeing whats up ahead.

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9. Daily Study Plans

• Plan of daily study tasks
• Use your assignment calendar to determine daily
  study plans.
• Complete one months worth of daily study plans
  in your Massage Year Planner.

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10. Good Ideas for Study Plans

• Complete the most difficult or time-consuming
  study tasks first.
• Break projects up into bite-sized chunks.
• Time left over? Work ahead!

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11. Other Time Management Tips

• Study during bits of unscheduled time.
• Tape lectures listen to them while commuting.
• Use flash cards for small blocks of study.
• Every minute of study helps!

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12. Before Leaving School Checklist

• Have you
• Written down all assignments/due dates?
• Gathered all the books and handouts you need?
• Spoken to any necessary school staff?
• Reviewed your plan for the days study session?

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13. Process Time Management

• How do you feel about time management?
• Will you use the time management forms in your
  Massage Year Planner?
• Do you view time management as a positive or
  negative of school?
• Other thoughts?

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ABMP Student Success Curriculum

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