TRASH TRIO Recommended Acceptable Study Habits

Background

Pick through the TRASH to discover some great ideas and helpful tips that will collectively improve your study habits.

Outcome Objective

Students will
• evaluate their time spent on daily activities
• identify poor time management areas with time log
• investigate study skills to address these problem areas
• implement new time management strategies

Process Objective

Students will:
• Evaluate your current time management
  basic evaluation of study skills
• Chart their actual daily activities for 1 week (social, personal, study, etc.)
  evaluate daily time
  blank chart
  example of chart filled out
• Enter data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
  data entry example
• Create a pie chart of data to compare with academic model
  excel tutorial (if necessary)
• Evaluate actual time spent doing tasks and reflect on their findings
  evaluate and reflect
  

Materials needed

Hardware: Computer with internet connection
Software: Microsoft Excel, Netscape or Internet Explorer
Internet: Access to these pages on the Internet

Extensions

Additional links on resources
Manage Yourself - Not Your Time

Quotes

"It's not enough to be busy.... the question is: What are we busy at?"

Thoreau

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.


John F. Kennedy

The surest poison is time.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Work expands to fill the time allowed for its completion".


Northcote Parkinson