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I'm Mrs. Brigman, a math teacher here at
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GOC, and I want to talk about a really
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helpful tool that can help you plan for success
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here. That is using a weekly planner.
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Included with this video is a template
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of a weekly planner. It's very
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basic, but it gives you everything you
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need to set you up to be successful.
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Notice that it's blank at the top for you
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to fill in the week, and then it has enough
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rows to cover all of your courses here at
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GOC, plus a little extra space that we'll
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talk about in a minute. There's a column
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for every day of the week and there's even
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space on the end for you to fill in things
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going on over the weekend. So let's talk
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about how to fill this in. The first thing
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that you want to do is you want to go to
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your course homepage for each of your courses.
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On the right hand side of your homepage
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you see that daily agenda there. If you
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look at it more carefully you'll see all
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the assignments for that particular course.
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If you're caught up on everything you should
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not see anything showing overdue and it's
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just the assignments for the next two weeks
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showing up. You can then use that to fill
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in one row for that weekly planner template.
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Or if you want to see all
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of your classes together,
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if you click the link at the bottom that
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says view all work, it'll bring you
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to a larger daily agenda that has all of
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your work for all of your courses in
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one place. So whether you go homepage
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by homepage or you use the large daily
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agenda, you can now fill out your weekly
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planner. So let's look at an example.
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This student has six classes here at
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GOC. Notice their first row is their math
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class. They've color -coded their different
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courses, and every day they fill in
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what they're working on. Notice that
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calculus has something to do every day.
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doesn't. However, there are two
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quizzes that have to be taken.
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In your Spanish class, you may not have an
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assignment every day, but you fill in every
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single class. Then at the bottom it says
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extra. This person is involved in extracurriculars
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here at school but they also have
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other things going on in their life. Notice
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they work Monday, Wednesday, and Friday so
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they put that on here. They have a student
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leadership meeting here on Tuesday. They're
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taking a dance class on Thursday. Oh and they
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have a dentist appointment on Wednesday.
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All of these things help you to plan your
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workflow. For example Wednesday might
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be really busy with the dentist and work.
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So you might want to work ahead and
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get some of these things that are due on
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Wednesday done earlier. That way you're
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always working ahead instead of behind.
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Then in the weekend column you can fill
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in things that are going on in your life
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on the weekends. That way you know that
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if you do get behind how much time are
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you really going to have over the weekend
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to get things done. This helps you to plan
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out and be as successful as possible.
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Once you fill this in you can either type
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it out like this student did, or you can print
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it and write it out by hand. Whatever works
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for you. Then I strongly suggest you do
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print a copy and you maybe put it on your
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refrigerator at home or hang it above your
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workstation where you sit and do your schoolwork
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every day. That way, every day when you
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get up, you know exactly what has to be done.
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You should complete this every week at the
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start of the school week. Maybe take some
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time on Sunday afternoon to go ahead and fill
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it in for the coming week or Monday morning
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before you start working in any of your
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classes go ahead and fill out your planner.
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Whatever strategy works for you to help
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you be as successful as possible I
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encourage you to use it. This template you
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can make as many copies of as you need to
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so that you should have enough to get
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you through the entire school year if you
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want. Hopefully you find this is a really
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helpful strategy to get you through
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and help you to be as as successful as
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possible here at GOC. Thanks for watching.
