HS.43 Strategies for Efficient Time Use (PowerPoint)
This LifeKnowledge lesson (HS.43) teaches students strategies for efficient time use as part of personal development. Through a hands-on interest approach, note-taking, and goal-planning activity sheets, students define efficient time use, identify strategies for accomplishing a goal (setting goals, prioritized to-do lists, calendars, being realistic), and develop a plan for managing multiple activities.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define efficient time use.
- Identify strategies for efficient time use in accomplishing a goal.
- Develop a plan for efficient time use for multiple activities.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Writing Surface
- Overhead Projector
- Transparencies HS.43.TM.A–D
- 1 Copy per student of HS.43.Assess
- 3 Copies per student of Activity Sheet HS.43.AS.A
- 1 Copy per student of Activity Sheet HS.43.AS.B
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- How Do I Begin to Grow.
- Precepts
- I4 Balance personal and professional responsibilities.
- Key Terms
- Delegate; Efficient; Efficient Time Use
- Resources
- Blanchard, K. & Johnson, S. The One Minute Manager. New York, New York. Berkley Books, 1981. Covey, S.R., et al. First Things First. New York, New York. Simon & Schuster, 1994. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed. Springfield, Massachusetts. Merriam-Webster, 2001.
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-EC.9-12.1Productive Resources — Understand choices made by individuals, firms, or government officials have long run unintended consequences that can partially or entirely offset the initial effects of the decision.