Tia Adam – 11
With the school year already started, many students already have their study and organizational ways down. Some students use agendas, the notes app, and assignment trackers. Many organizational ways can help students stay organized for school, but do they actually help?
Junior Bethany Stufflet writes her homework on her phone after she goes over in her head what assignments she has to do. She finds this to be an effective way to remember her homework for herself, but it does come with issues. If she happens to forget an assignment in her head or forget to write it down, then she might not do a homework assignment that she needed to do. So as much as it works, it is not always a reliable way of organization, unless assignments are written down right away.
For myself, I used to do the same as Bethany, but I would write everything down on a sticky note, an index card, or a random piece of paper. And I mainly always remembered my homework, but I wasted a lot of random paper. After a while though I saw a video on an assignment tracker, and I decided to try it on my computer under Google sheets. Ever since I made it I have been able to track my assignments really well, and it really helps me to remember my homework. The only downside is that it takes a bit more time to document everything with my assignments rather than just writing them down on paper.
According to Standford.edu the biggest part of organization is planning ahead. Planning ahead takes away the stress of having to remember stuff daily. Besides just planning ahead, it is smart to put all assignments on one document or calendar so that it is not confusing to find where an assignment is. Along with organizing assignments on one thing, saving assignments in one spot also helps. The main idea that comes from this website is to keep everything in one place so that it is less confusing in the long run and to plan ahead so that assignments are not forgotten or lost at the last minute.
Overall from different students and websites organization is a key to doing good. Having a good organizational system helps keep everything planned and scheduled. Some good ways to stay organized are using a calendar, an assignment tracker, or a notes app. For more information on organization go to https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu. For a premade assignment tracker, file and make a copy of https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets.
