Informative And Insightful Experience Of Attending The Time Management Skills

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Attending the Time Management Skills lecture was an informative and insightful experience. I learned many things at this meeting, including how to stay organized and how to create goals for myself. This coarse can easily be related to First Year Seminar because all teachers, and almost every career, involves time management and organization skills. I would recommend attending this lecture, this is because it was very helpful for a first semester college student and the speaker was a intriguing and could relate to us. First of all, I learned to prioritize, organize and set goals at this meeting. The speaker showed us a demonstration, she had a jar that represented our day, sand that represented our distractions (friends and social media); …show more content…
Through First Year Seminar I have learned there is a lot of stress on a teacher, so much that almost sixteen percent leave the field of teaching within their first five years (Farris 2014). So, learning to handle stress now, as a freshman at York College, will help me to continue good habits and stay calm when I graduate and become a real teacher. According to Farris (2014), in “Teaching, Bearing the Torch”, staying organized is one way to handle stress (actually one of the biggest ways). Farris (2014) explains planning ahead is important in staying organized, in the lecture the speaker told us to make a list of our assignment and make a schedule to plan out our week (Time 2015). This shows that being organized is not only important for college students, but also teachers. Lastly, the speaker was a teacher at York College of Pennsylvania and she has goals that her and her supervisor create for the year. She told us the important things she does to manage her time so she can reach her goals; like making a list of her goals and sitting them on her desk, this helps to remind her what she is trying to achieve that school year. This relates to First Year Seminar because all teachers have goals they need to meet and are graded on their student’s performance; the speaker is she is a real teacher using the same strategies to ensure her success (Time

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