Tuesday, September 20 -- Week 4 Begins TRADITIONAL CALENDAR

Today's shout out goes to Emilee!  She was added to the course after it began and is already staying in touch with me and working to catch up!  

 

Week 3 was due last night and Week 4 begins today.  Week 4 is due on Monday.  Starting today, only 3 weeks will be open at a time -- the past, the current, and the next weeks. Remember to contact me if you have questions -- I am here to help!

We do not have a textbook however we do have text.  When you are posting your assignments, you should be referring to and explaining what you have learned from the text.  Please read the texts and/or take the analysis quizzes (you have another one coming up) -- skipping the content means you are just going through the motions and not growing as a leader.  This course is not designed to be completion only.  

To help you reference the text, I created the following resources (some of you have seen one or both resources attached to my feedback in your gradebook):

Ready, learn, lead!

Week 4 is focused on time management, in which we explore how to manage our time more effectively by thinking about what we do in a different manner. The idea here is that to be effective leaders, we must learn to manage our time better to get better, more effective results. I know I have struggled in the past to get the most of my time, and I’m sure you have too. This week gets us thinking about how to be better stewards of time. No better time than the present to get started!

Week 4 Assignment Tips: 

Weekly Planner and Reflection -- The first activity asks you to write down and plan out your strategy for getting week 4 activities done on time. The idea is to visualize and plan an objective so you can make it more manageable to accomplish. There is a portion of the assignment that asks you to analyze how well you were able to keep to your plan, what went right, what went wrong, in order to get a better grasp on future planning. Make sure to do this assignment with great intention, or you may not get what you should out of the assignment. This reflection should happen at the end of the week.  Don't forget to post your Planner and Reflection -- it tends to be the last thing people submit for Week 4, and sometimes they forget! And don't forget the reflection, that's key!

Covey Quadrant and Analysis -- Take your current ‘to-do’ list and sort all the activities into the appropriate grid. Then, assess the amount of time you have to accomplish the lists and, if necessary, reallocate activities. Quadrant I is for the immediate and important deadlines. Quadrant II is for long-term strategizing and development. Quadrant III is for time pressured distractions. They are not really important, but someone wants it now. Quadrant IV is for those activities that yield little is any value. These are activities that are often used for taking a break from time pressured and important activities.  Remember that your assignments this week are not just about sending in a planner or this activities quadrant but also to reflect on what you have experienced and learned!

Drive to Completion --  Using your time effectively and having enough focus and determination to finish what you have started -- Week 4 calls it the Drive to Completion. Have you ever started something and never finished it? Perhaps its time to think about ways of focusing your energies on completing what you start!  Please answer each part of the questions -- use the PEEL resource as your guide to be sure you are showing you understand the text.

Test of Time Creation -- You are asked to read and analyze how leaders know when to act on a given set of information. Often times, things don’t have deadlines, and there are no specific rules when something takes place. Great leaders have honed their ability to know “when the time is right”.  Everyone can work on this and be better at doing the right thing at the right time.  Read the article to learn the many ways our use of time is tested -- it goes through the questions you ask yourself to decide if something is worthy of your time.  How do you chose which problem to solve first?  Create a presentation that shares your understanding of the many tests (paraphrased and not word for word) OR create a video.  After posting your presentation for the class to see, reply to at least one of your classmates.  "I agree" or "Me, too" replies without explanation will not receive credit.

Procrastination Journal -- Remember to review the requirements for journals.  State your ideas, explain them, and offer example(s) to show your understanding.  Consider the definition of procrastination:  the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before a deadline.

Before posting any of your assignments, ask yourself the following questions:

a. Did I follow all instructions?
b. Did I completely answer the questions?
c. Do I clearly reflect that I understand and am thinking about the topic?  Did I use any weekly vocab?
d. Do I clearly reflect that I am applying the topic to my life--asking questions, giving examples, etc.?

  

Message me in the course using the inbox on the left of the screen, text/call me outside of Canvas at 9196-435-2008, email me at melissa.dettman@ncpublicschools.gov, or message me using Remind.  If I do not answer right away, I will answer as soon as I can and definitely within 24 hours.  You can also get help using the Peer Tutoring Center -- click on the PTC quick link on our homepage.