Time Management
Your TA duties will increase your overall workload, which may already be heavy with the burden of your own academic programme. Moreover the TA duties may be more demanding when you are busiest with your own academic assignments. In order to do both wel l, and still have some enjoyment in your life, you must be an efficient time manager. Effective use of time is the result of careful planning and appropriate strategies.
Be sure to share this list of strategies for effective time management with your undergraduate students. It may help them meet your deadlines. The above suggestions concerning time planning, concentration and overcoming procrastination ar e adapted excerpts from Studying Effectively and Efficiently: An Integrated System by Polly MacFarlane and Sandra Hodson of the Counselling Centre at Dalhousie University. The book is available at the University Bookstore.