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‘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