Objectives:
- To understand that procrastination is not a sign of laziness, but a sign of an anticipated negative experience.
- To develop effective strategies for better self-organization and time-management.
Pre-class work
- Use this week to reflect and identify a least one way that your current self-organization system is successful and one way that it can be further developed. Both will be helpful as we identify strategies during the workshop.
- What is one thing you are worried about this semester (if any)?
- What is one thing you are looking forward to this semester (if any)?
In class [slides: part 1, part 2 (unavailable)]
- [10min] Students socialize
- [20min] Overview of the spring semester:
- Recap “cycle of isolation” from the last class of the fall.
- Explain how the fall was focused on factors impeding individual student growth. In contrast, in the spring we will shift the perspective to the broader context; specifically, we’ll focus on the way these factors actually create an unsupportive and exclusionary academic culture.
- Moreover, emphasize how in the spring, we’ll be thinking of ways to create a more supportive and inclusive culture.
- Lastly, summarize in what ways the course changed from their fall semester feedback.
- Session by Harvard’s Academic Resource Center about self-organization and time-management – please contact them for the materials used in their session.
- [5min] In-class survey: What did you take away from class today?