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Create a Project Plan

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Study Skills & Tools ^Music, Art and Makerspaces All Ages Strategy

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Self-regulation Organization Working Memory Attention

Create a Project Plan

If your student struggles to complete all the requirements of a long-term project

Teach It!

  1. Objective: Students will create a clear plan or outline for a multi-step project or assignment, helping them to manage their time and ensure that important steps are not missed.
  2. Instruction and Practice: Guide students through the checklist (on the next slide) to help them create appropriate plans for multi-step projects.

*students* Create A Project Plan

  1. Start by listing each step of the assigned project.
  2. Next to each step estimate the amount of time it will take.
  3. Add in buffer time for unexpected events, such as an extra game on your sports schedule or you get sick and need to take a day off.
  4. Make a calendar schedule of when you will complete each step and clearly mark the dates. While you might prefer to put the schedule on your phone, a written version where you can easily view each step will better help you stay on schedule.
  5. Keep your schedule somewhere accessible and refer to it on a regular basis.
  6. Mark off each completed step. You will feel an ongoing sense of accomplishment and have a clear view of what you still need to do.

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

Everyone benefits from having a clear plan of how to approach a long-term, multi-step project, particularly students with weaker working memory, attention, and organizational challenges. Having a plan increases the probability that each step will be given the time and attention that is needed. It is important that it is the student who creates an organizational plan that works well for him or her, as every person has a unique approach to organization. Adults should not impose their own organizational structure on the student, but they should support the student to make sure he has an organizational strategy in place.