Time Management

Many kids are such procrastinators (guilty), that they will skip a morning class to do homework for an afternoon class. In any educational institution this is considered one of the greatest travesties besides plagiarism. Instead of giving out a syllabus with a final due date for a project and a page or two explaining in minute detail how it is to be done, and just waiting for that day when students turn in the final project, I plan to put the project on a time line and remind the students occasionally that something will be due in X days. This way, the whole class stays together on the project and I am better able to explain things or answer questions. It will also make grading much less stressful for me. Instead of having note cards, source cards, rough draft, peer review, revised draft, final draft, and works cited page to grade all at once for thirty-some-odd students, I will be checking them frequently on the due dates to keep them from piling up at the end of the semester.