Goal Breakdown

University applications are essentially huge goals that need to be broken down into small ones.

• If you find that you need to put an academic coach hat on, here's a worksheet that can help your procrastinating students to start doing small tasks one by one. 

Goal Planning

• Help your student set goals and identify obstacles with this worksheet. Prompts from the worksheet: 

• Obstacles to reaching my goals
• Things I will need to achieve my goals
• What I can being doing tomorrow to work toward my goals 

• If you need to help a student break a goal down into each days of the week, this simple goal planner is your friend.

Solve Problems 

There are many problems that may be encountered in the university application process.

• Help your student address them in a systematic way with the following worksheet. There are detailed prompts for the 5 main steps: 

Tips

• This one-page contains a list of time management advice. The essence are as follows: 

• Use a to-do list or an appointment book
• Prioritize your tasks
• Break large tasks into smaller pieces
• Limit distractions
• If you can't limit your distractions, get away from them
• Give yourself time between tasks
• Let yourself be less than perfect

Techniques

• Here are 9 popular & proven time management techniques.Any of these familiar to you? 

• Pareto Analysis
• Pomodoro Technique
• Eisenhower Matrix
• Parkinson's Law
• Time Blocking Method 
• Getting Things Done (GTD) Method 
• Rapid Planning Method (RPM)
• Pickle Jar Theory
• Eat That Frog technique 

Recent developments in technology are probably replete with possible resources for your students. I'm personally not very tech-savvy so this list is very short, but feel free to throw recommendations to me. 

I like these organizer apps: Notion, Trello, OneNote 

Some AI sample prompts 

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