Courtney Barich's Ranking Priorities

Ranking Priorities is an extremely helpful problem solving strategy. I tried ranking priorities because I was very overwhelmed with assignments. I have so many classes and a few assignments in each of them. I tried writing in my planner when I should do everything, but it was too hard not seeing everything I had to do at the same time. I was having a difficult time deciding which of my assignments I should do first and keeping track of what I needed to do for these assignments.

I decided to try ranking priorities. I first made a list and ranked my assignments in order of which are absolutely essential, important and optional. This way I won't have to think about which assignment I should do first and put the most effort in, right before I to do them. I then made an order of importance and what I needed to do first within these assignments. This helps me stay organized and helps me know what to do when.

I chose my learning strategies class first. I knew I had a few things due this week and needed to decide what I was going to work on first and what I was going to spend most of my time doing. I decided that my faculty interview project was my top priority out of my assignments in learning strategies. I put this under A. I then made a list of what I needed to do for the project, the first I needed to do as A-1 and on. I chose my next assignment that was important to do and put it under B. I put my optional assignment or least important as C. I found this strategy helpful because I got all my work done without feeling under pressure.

Key:

Classes

Assignments

Different parts of the assignments

Learning Strategies

A. Faculty Interview Assignment

A-1Annotate Syllabi

A-2 Syllabus Checklist

A-3 Interview Teachers- signed papers

A-4 Reflection

B.Tech #2

B-1 Ranking Priorities

B-2 Reflection

B-3 Blog

C. Homework- strategy

C-1 Chose Strategy

C-2 Try Strategy out

Writing

A. Essay

A-1 Bumper Sticker

A-2 Outline Essay

A-3 Write Essay

B. Homework Assignments

B-1 Read

B-2 Write notes and annotate

B-3 Answer questions