MIT2020 - Research: What is self-management?

Reading through the literature, the importance of being a competent self-management should not be underestimated. Studies show that strong self-management skills in students leads to better life outcomes, better performance in school and lower school dropout rates.

It is clear that being a successful self-manager requires a person to be competent across a number of areas including a person's skillset for organisation, planning, time management, stress management and self-motivation.

For the purposes of my design project, I will focus on the ORGANISATION component. My aim is to design a tool that will support Year 8 students to get ready for their leadership camp in the first week of Term 3.

MIT2020 - Google Meet (May 25th) - Getting back on track!

Today another Google Meet with the MIT2020 mentors and crew- a chance to check in and see how everyone is after lockdown and how our projects are tracking.

We are all at very different stages with our projects - some progress, some success and some stuckness. Despite my recent revelations, I am definitely feeling firmly in the 'stuck' camp and took advantage of the opportunity to meet one on one with Matt. 

Exploring how to support Year 8 students to confidently manage the transition from the primary to secondary school learning environment is a too broad and was causing me a degree of overwhelm! Matt  advised me to narrow the scope of my project to just one aspect of self-management skills and Matt also suggested to make it practical for the students by linking it to a single even in their lives  e.g. the annual Year 8 Graduation in Term 4.

Taking has advice on board, my next steps are to:

• Research the literature on self-management skill sets (e.g time management and organisation skills)
• Link the Year 8s self-management skills to their preparation for the upcoming Year 8 Camp (scheduled for the start of Term 3).