‘Managing my time’

Year 11 Study Skills Seminar 2

Creating a study timetable

• When do you study best?

• 50 minutes study, 10 minute break

• Not just homework!

• Let’s create one now!

• Share it!

Work flow charts

• Handout

• Do you need to be accountable to someone?

Research Plan Write You review

Someone else

reviewsSubmit!

Why is it important to have a good study space?

• It makes it easier to focus on your work• It keeps you comfortable in the inevitable long

study sessions• You associate a space with study (so don’t

study on your bed!)• You limit your movement away from study

space (and avoid distractions)

Why is it important to have a good study space?

• Everything you need within reach• Good seating posture: feet on the ground, spine straight,

chair lower than desk (not on the bed or floor)• Food and drink (water bottle, snack) • Stationery – pens, pencil, paper, highlighters, calculator,

rubbish bin• Good lighting, not in the dark with one bright light – no

shadows (also, use natural light as much as possible – to assist later sleep)

• A neat and organised work space with only one school subject in view at a time

Make sure you have…

ELIMINATING OR LIMITING DISTRACTIONS

Distractions: “Be in control!”

• Manage/Limit• Eliminate

DistractionsDistraction Limiting / Managing EliminatingTV • Study away from the TV

• Have everything on your desk to avoid walking past the TV

• Hide remote• Lock-up power cord

Phone • Flight mode while studying• Only check phone at the end

of the session/day

• Turn off and give it to your folks to look after

Facebook / YouTube / Twitter / etc.

• Give yourself 5 minutes of this as a reward, only after 25 minutes of solid work

• Use a timer• Get rid of notifications

Try getcoldturkey.com (free for PC) or “Isolator” for MAC: http://willmore.eu/software/isolator

Distractions

Distraction Limiting / Managing EliminatingVideo games

• Keep them for weekends• Do not use as an ‘in-between’

break

• Give the controller to your folks

• Lock-up power cord

Computer / Internet

• Use a timer when researching something so you don’t go on a wiki-trail

• Write down the ideas you need to research first

• Get your folks to change the wifi password

Visual distractions like posters

• Put posters/decorations out of sight in your study area

• Take all posters down and store them away

Prioritising

• Wall planners

• To Do Lists

• A - Urgent• B - Important• C - Less important