Wednesday, 10 October 2012

1.4 Set goals to manage commitments in work and personal life


Smart Goal Setting

I should always try my best on the work set by doing them properly and detailed and hand them on time so that I get good feedback in a better standard as well so each time I do work I will give the work a good layout and introduction on the work so I don’t forget the work. I would also have opportunity of grammar checked for my work to reduce my work from end of year which also improves my grammar because I get to see the problems of grammar in my work.

 

I also need to use good wordings when I put it in my own words or reword the meanings I need to use some more advanced English or adjectives to make more sense.

 

Extended project

I should do things a little faster so I should take more photos in work so that I don’t forget the steps. So I hope I can investigate more of making so I don’t get the making wrong. I should use more time to do the log book then other practise so I get more information recorded and photos recorded too because they count my points so I will spend half an hour to 1 hour on log book so I won’t do the forget everything and catch up the log book on the last day.

 

When comes to scenarios I need to read several times to remember precisely and understand it more if I don’t understand then I should ask  so I could improvise what I am saying or even rewrite it.

 

When comes to explain or analyse I would need to find out the meaning of the words so that I understand how to actually do it.

Smart targets

 

Use the following guidance when create your targets – your advisor can help you;

Keep your targets SMART;

 

Specific

“I will do better” is very vague – if it was that easy then we would all be getting top grades. Write down what you need to do to reach your goal. “I will practice my crosses from the right side” is better than “I will get on the school team”

 

Measurable

How do you know you are doing better? “I will work on my improving my vocabulary this year” is better because you can review the results of your vocab tests and measure your successes.

 

Attainable

We would all love to be able to score top marks in all subjects but it is unlikely to ever happen. Set yourself the goal of learning 5 new words a week in Chinese, rather than learning the whole dictionary. Remember that you may also want to play sport, see friends and watch a movie at some point…..

 

Relevant

Make sure that your goals will improve your school life. While you might want to get better grades setting the goal “I will play Halo once an evening for 2 hours” is unlikely to help you achieve your target.

 

Time-based

How often are you going to do something to help? How long are you going to do it for? When will you re-assess your successes?

 

Further notes;

Make sure that you focus on what you are going to do rather than achieve;

“I will improve my performance by focusing on my verbs” is better than “I want to get a 6 in Chinese”

 

Be positive – saying what you are going to do is best. “I will contribute effectively in group work” is better than “I won’t talk in lessons”

 

 

Now that you know you’re learning strengths and areas for improvement, you can begin to think about the targets that you can set yourself by cutting 10 minutes.

A target is something that you can work with your teacher to achieve to improve your performance in an area of school life, Think about the following things;

 

l   It does not have to be academic – it could be a target to improve your involvement in CAS, your relationships with your classmates

l   It must be something that matters to you – otherwise you won’t care about achieving it

l   It must be a SMART target – these are outlined on the following blogs

 

 

Reflections about how you spend your time each day.

Trends:

I can see the sport times & games could catch up my working times if I don’t use my free periods effectively or don’t do work the time I suppose to do.

Anomalies:

 

Areas which could be improved upon

I could gym with friends instead of playing games that’s useless for life even it help stress but I think socializing with friends also do help. I only play games on Saturday and Sunday before playing basketball so it won’t disturb my thinking from work.

Practical and focused goals for managing your learning (Smart)

I need to effectively use the free periods which could leave out about 4 hours a week. When there is a hand in assignment day on 8:10 I could just go straight to school and eat so I won’t be late handing in the work because I will have about 15 minutes early because I still need to leave at 7:20 due to the minibus only come on that time for KGV but in Sha Tin we want to leave at 6:50 if too early there might not be any minibus going due to they will not earn money.

I also need to use my time in tutor times effectively because most of them have nothing to do to BTEC especially Sha Tin due to not much we need to watch or do.

For Sha Tin college afternoon break I play basketball and king george v school lunch I am thinking of work out, but due to the short time I use to have lunch. Do work during early arrival too. I can cut down the lunch time watching times and eat faster so I have time to gym. In dinner time I should try to eat my fruits faster. I should actually sleep early without watching anything when my head felt tired or I won’t be able to do well on second day to save 10 minutes each day in a total of 1 hour 10 minutes. Cut gaming from 3 hours to 30 minutes or none because I feel the success too watching other stuff, try new games each time don’t need to be addicted to one game and more time to do work. I also want to cut the entertainment to 1 hour too because I got to entertain playing badminton with the club too.

 

According to cutting the games I have about 1 more hours on Saturday and Sunday.

According to cutting my watching time and eating fruits in dinner I cut down 30 minutes.

According to cutting time to watch before sleep I want to increase the time to sleep to 8 hours 30 minutes. Also usually on Saturday & Sunday I watch a bit television before sleep even it’s very late already so I should not watch any television and go straight to sleep

Tutor times

Sha Tin College

25 minutes

King George V School

20 minutes

Break times

Sha Tin College

Afternoon break is after lunch – 1:15 – 2:05

50 minutes

Meal Times

King George V School

Lunchtime – 1:25 – 2:20

55 minutes

Travelling to school times

Sha Tin College

6:50 – 7:30

40 minutes

King George V School

7:30 – 8:00

30 minutes

Personal times

Total for the week (Entertainment): 1 day 2 hours 30 minutes

Watching TV/YouTube

2 days school 2 days weekend’s morning eating together (10 minutes)

40 minutes

2 days school 2 days weekends Lunchtime (10 minutes)

20 minutes

7 days Dinnertime (30 minutes)

3 hours 30 minutes

Gaming

30 minutes

Entertainment and Socialising

About 1 hours

Sport & exercise

20 hours

School subjects sport & exercise excluding breaks and lunch

3 hours

Work out

2 hours 30 minutes

Badminton

10 hours

Basketball

4 hours 30 minutes

Music

Listen to music usually when travelling to venues where I play badminton

30 minutes

Homework/Working time including free periods

School days: 20 hours 15 minutes

6 hours (Sat)

7 hours (Sun)

Weekends: 13 hours

Total work time: 1 day 9 hours 15 minutes

Eating

Breakfast: 10 minutes x7

1 hour 10 minutes

Lunch: 15 minutes x7

1 hour 45 minutes

Snacks: 10 minutes x4

40 minutes

Dinner: 15 minutes x7

1 hour 45 minutes

Total eating time: 5 hours 20 minutes

Sleep

10:00 – 6:30 x3

8 hours 30 minutes

1 day 1 hour 30 minutes

10:00 – 6:45 x2

8 hours 45 minutes

17 hours 30 minutes

12:00 – 8:30 x1

8 hours 30 minutes

10:30 – 7:30 x1

9 hours

Total sleep:

60 hours 30 minutes = 2 days 12 hours 30 minutes

Total hours of day time: 7:30 – 10:30 = 15 hours

Total for the day:

Total hours in a week: 168 hours = 7 days

Total for the week: 108 hours 30 minutes = 4 days 10 hours 30 minutes

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