Organizational Skills

Staying Organized

Plan

• Use a planner to keep track of

EVERYTHING.

– Write down your assignments, projects, due dates, materials, and books to be taken home.

Calendar

• Keep a calendar in your room and write

EVERYTHING

on the correct date.

– even fun things!

Create a “To Do” List

• Make a list of

EVERYTHING

you have to do each day. – Use a small pad or notebook. – Cross each thing off as you do it. • Even if you don’t finish everything, you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment as you cross off items.

Create a Filing System

• Organize homework assignments into different folders for each class. – – If possible, use a different color for each class.

Make a mental connection between the color and the class. • For example, a green folder for math class and relate it to money . • If you have one big notebook, then put the assignments in different sections of the notebook.

Clean Up Day

• Once a week clean out your notebook, book bag, and folder.

Phone a Friend

• Pick a friend or “study buddy” and help each other with reminders.

You need...

• A daily planner with a calendar and space for assignments.

• A clearly labeled binder for each subject with dividers within the binder.

• A neat locker and book bag.

Completing Work • • Prioritize your assignments and complete the most important assignments first.

• Check off your assignments when you complete them.

Have an assignment folder for all completed work that you always have with you.

Note-taking • • Take detailed notes in all classes.

Write down the points that the teacher is stressing and mark them in some way.

• Develop your own note-taking style and use it for all of your classes.

Techniques to make notes helpful • • • Highlight key terms and concepts.

Use a type of outline.

Use different colors of ink.

• Any Questions?

Questions