It’s easy to agree that students like you would have many things to do after school, right? Sports, club meetings, hangouts, you name it. What I do know is there are other important things after school that are screaming for your attention, like school work, which may cause the feeling of dismay to some students when it is mentioned. If you are one of the few hundred students who are struggling to organize your time for your academic and personal bliss, then time management lessons from Tallwood that may help you should be added. It may even save a few of you from miserable failure.
A personalized space of time to improve your grades can make a drastic difference, so it is extremely important to sort your time after school. Information from Sekolah Pelita Harapan explains that time management helps you “study smarter, not harder” through consistent and planned repetition of review. I’ll be honest, this skill is hard to start for many others including myself, but having our school help us practice this can be genuinely helpful. This sort of planning can help us organize whatever it is that we do that replaces valuable time for achieving academic success. It may be doom scrolling, grinding on whatever game, or sports activities. With an evened out schedule, this personal time can be achieved along with the hopes of academic success. Think about it, a time where you can catch up on work, study, or consistently be caught up is not too much to ask for with this ability to organize.
If Tallwood were to teach us time management skills, it can also help us achieve things non-school related. Many of you know Natalie Portman, a well regarded actress who may have played a role in one of your favorite movies. Believe it or not, she attended Harvard University during her acting career between 1999 and 2003. One documentary showed that even while she was working on filming Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, she found time behind the scenes to study for her psychology class. The fact that she was able to graduate with honors in Harvard while also being busy with her filming contract still baffles me. Basic time organization skills may help us develop this level of balance of academic and non-academic goals. If you are involved in activities outside of school, say for example dance class, your ability to dissect time to lock in on any academic priorities can give you room to invest time in these activities. Imagine being able to pursue and be involved in activities without having the worry of your grades or any essentials. Well, I believe learning this skill can help us with a good start, even if it may not be perfect.
It’s important to know that time management is not only an academic skill but also a life long skill that could definitely improve our relationships and help us pursue our hobbies. Yes, time management may help you balance your life and school, but it is also important to know that YOU play a huge role by actively doing it. Even though Tallwood can help us a lot by teaching this, being disciplined for this habit should be considered to achieve its vision. If that is able to be done, then I feel it’s a good idea for Tallwood to apply these types of lessons. Tallwood’s goal is for the success of its students, so it shouldn’t hurt to add the basic and fundamental teachings of this skill.
