Time Management Problems
Mar 17, 2008
The rising sun and buzzing alarm clocks signal the arrival of morning. School bells ring to signal the start of the school day, recess, and the end of the school day. Church bells and cuckoo clocks mark the passing hours. When the kettle boils—it’s teatime. Home from school and work—it’s dinnertime. The sun sets, its bedtime.
Our lives are measured in compartmentalized segments of time slated out for us. So why is managing our time such a challenge?
We are constantly multi-tasking and splitting our time a hundred ways. We talk on the phone, do homework, surf the net, and make tea … all at the same time!
Instead of each of small task taking mere minutes, it takes much longer. Homework should take one and a half hours; instead, it takes close to four.
The hectic pace of our lives, the interruptions, and the distractions do little to help our time management issues. It is difficult to filter out the constant din of TVs, radio, instant messaging alerts, IPods, and of the clang-honk-beep-buzz of our modern world. Adults find focusing on one thing at a time challenging, so it’s no wonder that when kids are faced with a time-management issue, they have no idea how to solve the problem, and put things off until the last minute.
Like so many other skills that we need in life, time management techniques don’t come naturally to all. A little instruction and a lot of learning can help even the busiest of students to complete homework on time, finish projects well ahead of the due date, and to end procrastination for good.
Time Management: it’s a skill that we can all use, both in and out of the classroom.
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afreenish - Mar 26, 2008
hey tara and mechel i got my report card back and if you want to see it then just email me. If you can leave a message on facebook the i will give my email.or i will give it on april 2 2008
Tara - Mar 27, 2008
Afreenish:
I am glad you got your report card and hope you feel good about it. Please bring it into the centre or email us at barrhavenolc@oxfordlearning.com. We do not like to correspond on facebook, so please email us at the office or even better let us see the report card so we can celebrate with you! See you soon!
Tara and Michelle
someone - Mar 27, 2008
I heard your commercial on the radio and started to laugh. "How you learn is more important than what you learn," is kind of a silly slogan. I think that if I am trying to get into engineering its kind of important to learn math, even if it is hard to learn.
Someone Else - Mar 28, 2008
Yes - it is important to learn math if you wish to be an engineer! But how do you propose to do that if you have no idea how to learn? How can you learn the complicated formulas needed to become an engineer if you've failed to comprehend the basics?
I think the radio add is fantasic! ;)
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