Managing my time by Ken Ong and Mark Kaderle, Melbourne High School

1. ‘Managing my time’
Year 11 Study Skills Seminar 2

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!

3. Work flow charts
• Handout
• Do you need to be accountable to someone?
Research Plan Write
You
review
Someone
else
reviews
Submit!

4. Why is it important to have a good
study space?

5. • 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?

6. • 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…

7. ELIMINATING OR LIMITING
DISTRACTIONS

8. Distractions: “Be in control!”
• Manage/Limit
• Eliminate

9. Distractions
Distraction Limiting / Managing Eliminating
TV • 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/sof
tware/isolator

10. Distractions
Distraction Limiting / Managing Eliminating
Video
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

11. Prioritising
• Wall planners
• To Do Lists
• A - Urgent
• B - Important
• C - Less important