Meeting Deadlines - Time Management

 Managing your deadlines 

Making the most of the time students have enables students to be as efficient and successful as possible, leading a balanced life of work and play.

In order to meet assignment deadlines and to keep up with the schedules related to school and schoolwork, students must engage their temporal sequential ordering abilities.

For students with weak time management skills, procrastination can have painful consequences, affecting both academic and personal success.

Here are some strategies to help you to meet deadlines and adhere to school schedules:

• Create long term schedules to budget time (such as when managing a schedule of work and recreation or planning the timeline of a school project)

• efficiently stage or break down long term activities ( history report may be broken down into following stages Monday: Go to the library to collect sources Tuesday: Write first draft Wednesday: Proofread Thursday: Revise to final copy Friday: Take to school and submit)

• Prepare a written schedule of daily and weekly deadlines (reminders of tests and important long term projects) 

• make checklists - keep track of multi-step assignments and activities

• make personal schedules for study time, after school activities ( help students learn to set goals that emphasise important tasks they need to accomplish)