Step Four
Plan your week…
The blank space they now see on their weekly planner is their TIME TO STUDY.
This is the fun part. At the end of each week, they get to decide which ‘ducks’ they will fill their time to study with for the following week.
NOTE: They’ll also get to see the number of remaining ducks reduce which should give them a sense of progress.
Activity:
Every Sunday evening, or whenever suits, you and your teen can sit down together (or they can do it themselves and you can check it later) to:
1. Remove any existing yellow or red sticky-notes from the ‘Weekly Planner’ (those are the exams and revision from last week).
2. If necessary, add, remove or rearrange any blue and green sticky-notes on the ‘Weekly Planner’ to match their school and personal time commitments for the coming week.
3. Move any upcoming red sticky-notes from their ‘Big Picture’ (if those exams will be sat in the coming week) to their ‘Weekly Planner’ inserted at the correct time and choose which ducks to bring into their Weekly Planner for this week.
Once they’ve decided on what they’re going to study, their Weekly Planner should look something like this:
NOTE: If your teen complains there’s too little space to study or that not many ducks have moved from their rows, this is a great conversation to have with them, because now they have a choice to make. More amber will mean less blue, but more AMBER will also mean a better chance of getting a better grade.
Why is Time to Study free?
As adults, our relationship with time is broken, and we believe it starts at school, when we’re kids.
Schools teach young people that unless you're sitting at a desk you're not working. And as they move into the world of work that’s the only thing that’s valued - doing stuff.
Sure, we need to spend some time ‘doing a job’. But we also need to look at where we are going and make sure we get there - leadership.
But we also need downtime, rest.
Our mission is to create a world of better led people. While we work with organisations all over the world to eradicate accidental management, we believe the first step is to show young people that the journey to leadership begins at school - by learning to lead themselves.
