by Janna Jensen
📖Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
📲Technology Required
Any Internet enabled device
⏰Time
Day 1: 45 minutes, Day 2 (a week later): 30 minutes
📃Summary
Students watch a 12-minute video that gives time management tips for students. They complete a worksheet to assess where they spend their time and identify changes they would like to make. As a class, students discuss their own time management strategies. Out of class, students track their time usage for a week. In the follow-up lesson, students review in writing and class discussion how well they predicted their time usage and strategies for improving time management in the future.
Lesson
Discuss how time management relates to financial literacy
We recommend introducing the lesson with a brief discussion of how time management relates to financial literacy. We’ve all heard that time is money, so this 10-lesson unit on financial literacy begins with time management. Truly, students need to find the time to get a job, keep a job or write a budget, so it starts here.
Watch a video on time management
Writing Assignment
Have students download and complete the time management tips worksheet. You can copy and paste the instructions below into your Google classroom or other classroom management system.
Instructions for time management worksheet
This is an assignment that we will be using throughout the financial literacy unit. AFTER you have watched the assigned video, start today with pages 2 and 3 of the worksheet.
- Download the time management worksheet.
- Open a Google doc and answer the 3 questions from page 2 on how you spend your time, your priorities and what you want to stop doing.
- On page 3 of the worksheet, Ellen discusses four methods of time management. In your Google doc, answer these questions – Which one appeals to you the most? Why do you think that will work for you? ANSWER IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. For example, “I think the time blocking would work best for me because I tend to get bored and jump from one task to another. That wastes a lot of time remembering where I left off.”
Track Your Time Homework
You can copy and paste the instructions below into your Google classroom or other classroom management system.
Instructions for time tracking assignment
Where does the time go? If you are like most people, you did not come up with 24 hours accounted for in your time management worksheet assignment. For the next week, track how you spend your time each day. The easiest way to do this for most people is using the notes app on their phone. If you don’t have your phone with you all of the time, a piece of paper and a pen will work just as well.
HINT: To spur the next week’s discussion, it may be helpful for the teacher to do this activity as well.
DISCUSSION
After watching the video and answering the questions in writing, students discuss the following questions as a class. You may wish to simply ask each question, or use this slides presentation to show the questions. Students learning at home can answer the questions in writing.
- What are some things you do to try to be efficient with your time?
- Do you have a strategy for your time management?
- How could you become better at time management? Did you identify any ways you spend your time that you would like to change?
DAY 2 (A week after Day 1)
Complete Written and Reading Assignment
Students complete page 4 of the time management worksheet and read tips on page 5.
DISCUSSION
After completing the written assignment, students discuss questions as a class. You may wish to simply ask each question, or use this slide presentation to show the questions. Students learning at home can answer the questions in writing.
- Did anything about how you spent your time surprise you? Did you spend more or less time on some activities than you thought you did?
- How helpful do you think tracking your time was for you?
- Did you use any of the time management strategies suggested in the video? If so, how did those work for you?
HINT: It may be helpful to lead off the discussion with your own answers to these questions.
Assessment
Students will submit responses to worksheet questions for teacher comment. Since this assignment is primarily asking for student opinions, we recommend marking the worksheet assignment as 100% if completed with the student using complete sentences to answer the question regarding page 3, 90% if all questions are answered but not with complete sentences.
For the time tracking assignment
State Standards
ND STATE STANDARDS:
North Dakota Business Education Standard 3.3a.1.13 Describe appropriate time management techniques and their application/transference to the workplace.