Review the Time Management Powerpoint and bullet some essential points and reveal how you plan on implementing some of the strategies.
Time Management
for Doctoral Learners
DR. FATIMA MANSUR
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Effective Time Management
Factors
Perseverance
Time on Task
Good relationship with your
committee
Selecting a Topic
Is based on the work of others?
Can be replicated?
Is generalizable to other settings?
Is based on some logical rationale and tied to theory?
Is it doable?
Does it generate new questions or is it cyclical in
nature.
Is it incremental?
Is an apolitical activity that should be undertaken for
the betterment of society?
Questions to Consider
How much the tuition costs you daily.
Will student loan debt be a challenge?
-Is the sacrifice worth it, when it comes to
volunteering, working overtime, etc.?
-Should you be tutoring, becoming an adjunct,
coaching sports or singing in the church choir for the
next few years?
Just think about these questions…
Add something / take away
something
Ok, you are adding 15-25+ hours a week to the
typical demands on your time.
-What activities will you give up or multitask during?
-Where can you multitask, in addition to the
efficiencies you’ve already built into your life?
-If you want to graduate in three or four years, what
will have to do to reach that goal? Are you
considering the unpredictable nature of the
research process?
-Consider strategic use of Leaves of Absence.
Multi-tasking
Books on tape while you are in transit
Recorder and/or note pad by your bed
Always have reading with you for doctor’s office
visits, red lights, etc.
Doctoral work during lunch hours
Cater to your preferred learning style – ex: auditory
learners can use Word to scan a book to listen to
later
Let’s share time saving tips
Catch full citation first time!
Use a system to house your sources(i.e. Zotero, REFS)
Have organizational systems for files Use bookmarks well on computer
Set up rewards when you finish 5 pages of writing, etc.
Schedule your # of study hours each week and stick to it
Use different reading styles. Scan before your read.
How many hours a week are you
studying?
Two+ hours a week for every credit hour of class
A 6-credit course = 18 hours of work a week plus
7 hours a week of prep for the doctoral study = 25
hrs.
Plus: networking, reading professional journals,
making trips to the library, planning for future terms,
and attending residency.
Planning doctoral studies:
You aren’t doing your life’s work for your doctoral
study.
Pick a do-able research topic.
Pick something you are passionate and/or very
curious about.
Start keeping notes and references from the start.
Design an organizational system and use it.
How do you spend your time?
How will you?
School Related: Classes, study, doctoral study
prep
Networking, etc.
Work and travel
Family
Personal
Social & entertainment
Boards, committees
Health and self-care, eating, exercise, etc.
Sleep
Become the scholar-practitioner
now
Surround yourself with activities,
colleagues, beliefs and symbols of the
scholar that you are becoming.
Socialization theory suggests:
Mastering course work and the theories in your field
and knowing you could teach it to others if you had
to.
Adjust to the realities of graduate student life.
Utilize study partners and academic support group,
Aligning your studies with your professional goals. Do
you want what you are preparing for? Do
informational interviews in your field.
Building relationships with your school and
specialization – peers, faculty, mentor, doctoral
study committee. Know the structure. Build a
community of learners.
Recognize the changes
You are changing and sometimes you’ll feel
crazy, but you may be “going out of your
mind” to a developmentally new framework.
See: Robert Kegan’s In over our heads: The
mental demands of modern life. Harvard
University Press. 1998.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/KEGOV
E.html
Suggestions for reframing
behaviors and attitudes
Ideal workspace
Meditation, Prayer, Exercise, yoga
Self-hypnosis, Positive affirmations
Talking partners
Creating a narrative about your past
and your intentions
Return regularly to joyful activities
Symbols, rituals, etc.
Simply staying at the task:
Changing your work setting for variety and
stimulation
Have a variety of tasks ready so you can do
one that inspires you or you have energy for in
the moment (reading, annotating, writing,
organizing)
-Rest your eyes by looking up every 5 minutes
-Exercise 5 minutes every hour
-Keep hydrated –
-Brain Gym exercises:
http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/blbraingy
m.htm
Effective time management
Effective time management comes down to
choices. Good choices lead to better results, while
poor choices lead to wasted time and energy.
Time management gives you a framework to make
better
Decisions on how to spend your time, but in the end,
it is up to you to actually make the tough choices.
Backward planning
When do you want to graduate?
Time and financial investment?
Cost/benefit analysis
Benefits – personal, social, economic
Live into the new you
Attend scholarly conferences in your field.
Read scholarly journals.
And don’t leave behind the people or hobbies you
love.
Honor what they know about you or give you that
can help you succeed and what they need from
you so that you can count on sustenance over time.
Perseverance
Motivators
Write down on a piece of paper all the reasons you
want a doctoral degree – personal, employment,
etc.
Put a Doctor in front of your name
Visualize yourself at the Commencement
In Closing
The experience of obtaining your doctorate is
oftentimes, challenging, frustrating, and overwhelming.
But remember that old adage,
“… it is a marathon not a sprint…”
Continue to persevere!
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