Time Management Lesson Plan
Instructor: Teresa Faust
Course Name: Adult Roles and Responsibilities
Grade Level: 9th-12th grades
Length of Class 3 class periods that run 70 minutes, re-check
on changes every two weeks.
Unit: Time management
Lesson Name: How I spend my time
Lesson Goal: Students should effectively show use of time
and evaluate and re-adjust to correlate with
goals set.
Learning domain: To understand the importance of time and
managing time to succeed in the goals the
students set.
Objective: Students will be able to:
- Record a 24 hour period
- Fill in a time chart
- Analyze where the student needs to make changes to accomplish what they want in a 24 hour period.
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Review: (10 min.) “Goals and decision making”
Materials for review: Overhead projector and overhead of the
definitions of short term goals, long term
goals and the steps to make decisions
Transition: After reviewing the overhead and having
the students discuss some of their personal
short term and long term goals we move on
to the objective for the day.
Overview: (10 min.) “Evaluating the importance of time
management.
Materials for overview: Overhead projector and overhead
with schedule and quotes about time.
- Present objectives and Agenda for the day.
- Explain to the students what the goal is for the day.
- To get the students thinking about time read the quotes and ask if they have heard of any themselves.
Transition: Today we will be using the 24 hours that was
recorded for homework. Using the information you
will transfer the information to the schedule like the
one on the overhead.
Presentation: (20 minutes)
Materials for presentation: Overhead projector and overhead
with an example of the time
mangagement information sheet
“How I Spend My Time”, a
calculator.
- Begin the presentation with a completed example of a personal record of a 24 hour day.
- Plot the time in the appropriate spaces on the chart.
- Calculate the time it would take in a week and a month.
- Have a discussion if the students agree with the color code of activities and why they may have put an item in a different category.
- Reflect on how the time was spent and have students suggest schedule changes to utilize time efficiently.
Transition: Today you will be charting your information onto
the time recording sheet. You will need to get out
red, blue, yellow and purple colored pencils.
Exercise (20 min.)
- Fill out the information and answer the questions at the end.
- Compare what is on your personal goal
Sheet.
- Analyze the information and see what
needs to be changed in order to accomplish
the goals those were set.
- Develop an action plan on how to reschedule a 24 hour day.
Summary: (10 min.)
- Discuss with students what they observed was their major time management problem and record they responses on the white board.
- Explain to the students that they will revisit this type of recording every two weeks to see if their plan of action is going to change to succeed in their set goals, example: maintaining a 3.5 grade point average, lose 20 lbs before track season, spend more quality not quantity time with family and friends.
- Ask the students if they have any questions or concerns.
Resources for Time Management lesson Plan
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Name ______________________________ Date __________________ Score_________/50
TIME MANAGEMENT - HOW I SPEND MY TIME
- On a separate piece of paper, keep a record of everything you do for 24 hours (20 points).
- Start with 12 AM in the morning and put each hour on a separate line.
- For each hour, write what you have done. Be specific and detailed.
- Each hour can have many different activities written down.
- 24 HOURS LATER: Count up how many hours were spent doing the following:
Sleeping ______ School / homework ______ Using the computer______ Using the phone______
Time with family ______ Chores/job______ Watching TV/videos______ Eating ______
Time with friends______ Physical activity ______ Personal grooming ______ Traveling ______
Participating in a practice/lessons ______
- Categorize each activity and color code it as explained below:
Yellow = School / homework Red = TV / computer / phone Blue = Eating
Red= Exercise / sports Red = Time with friends Red = Time with family
Blue = Sleep Blue = Personal grooming Purple = Chores / job
Red = Hobbies
- Below each time slot, fill in each space. Color code it according to the chart above.
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- How much time would be allocated to work, school, and leisure using the 24 hour period recorded?
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Work/Purple |
School/Yellow |
Leisure/Red |
Necessities /Blue |
Past 24 hours |
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Past week
168 hours |
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Past month
672 hours |
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- What did you do with free time that was not scheduled? Could you have made better use of that time? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________
- List the things that you could not do because you did not have enough time. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- List the activities that took up more of your time than you expected. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Time Quote
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Your Guide to Quotations.
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A Select Collection of Time Quote
Charles Richards: Time Quote
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
H. Jackson Brown: Time Quote
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown: Time Quote
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger: Time Quote
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Benjamin Franklin: Time Quote
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Thomas Edison: Time Quote
Everything comes to him that hustles while he waits.
Robert Browning: Time Quote
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made; Our times are in his hand who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
Louis E.
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