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Plan Your Time

Objective: The student will be able to use the planning process to make plans for spending time on a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule.

Activity: Plan Your Time. Introduce weekly time schedules. Share examples with the students and show them how to fill them out. Together go through the steps in the planning process as the schedule is completed. Step 1: Describe what you are going to do. Develop a time plan to schedule daily plans for a week in order to fit in both those things I need to do and those things I want to do. Step 2: List the materials you will need. I will need a weekly schedule form and pencil. I will also need to know of all the obligations I have for the week, i.e., all scheduled lessons, chores, social engagements, etc. Step 3: List the steps in order that you will follow. 1) Ask my mother to help me identify the obligations I have for the week. 2) Gather a schedule form, a pencil, and an eraser. 3) Enter my obligations onto my schedule first. 4) Fill in with the things I most definitely want to do. 5) Identify the remaining time as flexible time--left for free time, but available for other things if needed. Step 4: Make a list of the things which might go wrong--and possible solutions for the problems. 1) I might have a lot of homework one night. Solution: use some of my flexible time. 2) I might have to babysit my little brother. Solution: adjust my flex time. 3) I might have to go to the dentist. Solution: skip ball practice. 4) I might have family company one evening. Solution: do my homework right after school. Once plans are complete, help students to fill in a weekly schedule. Once weekly plans are made, introduce the subject of long-range planning. Brainstorm and list the types of projects which are completed over a week or more. Discuss the special problems which they may present. Show students how to use the planning process to help with long-range plans. Model the use of the process in a present assignment. Ask students to complete project plans and a monthly schedule for breaking down the identified tasks.

Assessment: The plans completed provide the basis for evaluation of student mastery of this quadrant's objective.