procrastination
As a person who offten finds himself procrastinating what is a good way to change this. Everyone always says just do it now, but if you are a person who does this it is not that easy or it would be done.
That's tough Christopher - and a common problem for many instructors. It's hard to know how to start. I recommend starting small. Just take baby steps, chipping away at a little work at a time. Suddenly you'll find that your efforts add up.
Prioritize!!! If you make a list of what needs to be done and by when, you can start to map out a game plan so you are ahead of the game instead of behind.
Exactly Robert! It's nice to be able to have everything on paper and come up with a game plan. Your game plan can have short and long term goals to drive toward.
Oh i see this all the time in my classroom and I always share with them the conquences of procrastination when it comes to classroom projects. In my class we have two online forum discussion that are worth 50 points each. I give them two weeks to complete and offer them an opportunity to increase their score by answering my comments and imputing more info to raise their score higher. I tell them by putting off this homework assignment and posting your assignment at the last minute (hours within the cut off time)you will only receive the score for what it's worth without any opportunity to make it better. What surprizes me is that many of them will not post anything. Maybe its the new generation who wants everything handed to them on a silver platter. Go figure
