SDV Goals Time Management

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Setting Goals and Managing Your Time

Setting goals helps you to determine where you want to go in life. It gives you vision and motivation. If you know what you want to achieve, you will know where to concentrate your efforts, organize your time, and your resources. By setting goals, you will be staging a forward momentum, a purpose; and will benefit from the reward of achieving of those goals. Without goals, you may be set perpetually adrift in life; perhaps never experiencing a sense of real achievement because you have not determined what it is you really want to achieve in the first place.

Effective time management techniques and strategies can influence not only academic success, but also personal success. New technological devices have led to incessant interruptions in our lives. It takes self-discipline and self-understanding to know when it is appropriate to tune in and when you should tune out.

This module will help you to become aware of how set goals and manage time more effectively. You will analyze how individuals (and yourself) accomplish the tasks that you choose as priorities and identify strategies for dealing with roadblocks.

Learning Objectives After you have completed this topic's activities, you should be able to:

Define types of goals. Identify roadblocks and how to succeed them.

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Demonstrate setting a goal. Analyze how you spend your time. Formulate a semester calendar.

Summary of Learning Activities By the end of the module, you should have completed the following:

Reading: Chapter 1, You and Your College Experience

Chapter 2, Staying Motivated, Organized, and On Track

Video:

Setting & Accomplishing Realistic Goals

Overcoming Procrastination: Causes & Cures

Time Management: Strategies for Success

How to Manage Your Time Better

Quiz: Setting Goals (50 points)

Assignment: Time Management Worksheet (50 points)

For grading information, refer to Course Grading in the Syllabus.

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Academic Planning Video and Reading Review the following resources in preparation for the quiz and assignment in this module.

Watch the Academic Career and Transfer Planning Video (https://learn.vccs.edu/courses/607975/assignments/13475617) .

(Note: Though this video appears in Grades, it does not carry any points).

Review the following webpages:

College Catalog (http://www.nvcc.edu/catalog/index.html) Transfer (https://www.nvcc.edu/transfer/)

(https://www.nvcc.edu/transfer/) Transfer Hub (https://blogs.nvcc.edu/transfer/) (transfer event and transfer college information; transfer planning and transfer application help) (http://www.nvcc.edu/apps/1/transfersearch/gaasearch.aspx) Transfer Agreements (https://www.nvcc.edu/transfer/agreements/index.html) (view Guaranteed Admission Agreements and Articulation Agreements with four-year colleges) Transfer Virginia (https://www.transfervirginia.org/) (transfer planning resources and transfer partner college information)

(http://www.nvcc.edu/transfer/agreements/index.html) Career Services (https://www.nvcc.edu/career-services/Students.html) Career Connection (career development resources; search and apply to jobs and internships)

Graduation (http://www.nvcc.edu/graduation/)

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1/24/24, 3:13 PM Quiz: Setting Goals Quiz

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Setting Goals Quiz Started: Jan 24 at 3:13pm

Quiz Instructions Purpose Assess your knowledge of types of goals and overcoming roadblocks.

Directions To prepare for the quiz, you need to make sure to review all of the assigned module content.

There are 17 questions in the quiz. You can attempt the quiz only twice. The quiz must be completed in one sitting. Reflect on how you did on the quiz and review the concepts and information that you have missed.

Grading This quiz is worth 50 points toward your course grade.

2 ptsQuestion 1

Review the case of Jamal. Question one and the four questions following, will refer to this case study:

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Jamal wants to attend NOVA and transfer to George Mason University after graduating in two years. He has applied to NOVA for the upcoming semester. This is his first time attending college and he met with an advisor who provided him the steps he needs to take to enroll in courses several weeks ago; which include the financial aid application, placement testing, and orientation. The semester start is just a few weeks away and he has not taken the placement tests because he has not felt motivated. Whenever Jamal goes online to review NOVA's financial aid webpage and begin the financial aid application, he is distracted by the social media notifications on his smartphone.

What is Jamal's subjective goal?

Ask the advisor what the steps are again.

Attend college.

Graduate from NOVA in two years.

Check his social media notifications.

Walk his dog.

2 ptsQuestion 2

Which of the following would be an objective goal for Jamal?

Register for courses.

Check his email.

Take the placement tests by the end of the week.

Review the application for George Mason University.

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Update his smartphone.

2 ptsQuestion 3

Which of the following is a process goal for Jamal to be considered for financial aid?

Talk to his advisor about registering for classes.

Review the information on NOVA's financial aid website.

Complete the financial aid application.

Wait for motivation.

Both b and c.

2 ptsQuestion 4

Jamal's not feeling motivated is considered which of the following?

Subjective Goal

SMART Goal

Internal Roadblock

External Roadblock

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Replacement Activity

2 ptsQuestion 5

For Jamal, social media is acting as what?

A subjective goal

A progress goal

An internal roadblock

An external roadblock

A productive activity

2 ptsQuestion 6

Why should you set goals?

A goal can keep you on task.

A goal can improve performance.

A goal can prolong persistence.

A goal can prepare you for roadblocks.

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All of the above.

2 ptsQuestion 7

The following is an example of a strong objective:

"Pass biology exam."

yes

no

10 pts

"earn an A.S. in Science from NOVA at the end of the spring semester with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.85"

[ Choose ]

"A.S. in Science and a cumulative GPA of at least 2.85 "

[ Choose ]

Question 8

Mikey's S.M.A.R.T. goal is to earn an A.S. in Science from NOVA at the end of the spring semester with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.85. To do so, Mikey needs to complete the seven remaining classes successfully in the fall and spring semester. Mikey also needs a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.85 to transfer to George Mason University. Match the elements of Mikey's goal to the correct S.M.A.R.T. objective.

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"complete the seven remaining classes successfully in the fall and spring semester"

[ Choose ]

"transfer to George Mason University" [ Choose ]

"end of the spring semester" [ Choose ]

10 pts

1 [ Choose ]

2 [ Choose ]

3 [ Choose ]

4 [ Choose ]

5 [ Choose ]

Question 9

Davina has the goal of earning a 2.5 GPA this semester. Arrange the objectives needed to make Davina's goal S.M.A.R.T.

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2 ptsQuestion 10

Success counseling involves thinking about one wants to get out of a particular goal and assessing what they are doing now to obtain that goal.

True

False

2 ptsQuestion 11

What does Laurie Hazard from the StudentLingo video mean when she says "procrastinators are liars"?

They lie to others to get out of their procrastination behavior.

They lie to themselves to get out of procrastination behavior.

They are untruthful in all areas of their life.

They will cheat on exams.

Both A and B.

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2 ptsQuestion 12

We ________ so that we can engage in behaviors or give ourselves permission to engage in behaviors that we know are the things that we are not supposed to be doing.

Prioritize

Lie

Rationalize

Replace

2 ptsQuestion 13

Jesse has three chapters to read tonight. Jesse tends to procrastinate with a favorite _______ ________, playing video games. However, by allowing playing of video games for 30 minutes after reading a chapter, this has now become a ________.

little step; rationalization

cost benefit; reward

temperature reading; accountability

replacement activity; reward

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2 ptsQuestion 14

Procrastination can be productive if one focuses on completing school tasks they enjoy rather than giving equal time to all tasks.

True

False

2 ptsQuestion 15

Prioritizing tasks involves:

focusing on tasks in terms of when things are due.

giving equal treatment to each class.

focusing on tasks one enjoys.

focusing on tasks in terms of when things are due and giving equal treatment to each class.

2 ptsQuestion 16

Setting clear goals and objectives supports accountability for oneself.

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True

False

2 ptsQuestion 17

Which of the following is not a strategy for combating procrastination?

Reward Yourself

Avoid Difficult Tasks

Tune Out Negativity

Cost Benefit Analysis

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