Beginner
College Success — Managing Your Time and Priorities
Start: Read 3.3 Procrastination, then 3.5 Prioritization in chapter 3.
PDF of the complete College Success book; begin with the selected chapter.
Adaptability, self-development & lifelong learning
Self-development & self-management
Set goals and priorities, manage your time and attention, and review the results of your work.
How to learn
Understand the purpose
Describe in one sentence what you should be able to show or do at the end.
Examine priorities and time
Choose an order using deadlines and dependencies; leave room for breaks.
Check understanding while working
Pause to identify what you understand and where help is needed.
Review the work and adjust
Compare the result with the intended outcome and choose one specific adjustment.
Books & guides
Beginner
Succeed with learning — open course guide
Start: Begin with Thinking about your own learning and Reflection in Week 1.
Free to read; progress tracking and some activities require a free account.
Beginner
Transform Your Habits — 2nd Edition
Start: Begin with The Science of How Your Habits Work, then The Best Way to Start Your New Habit.
The author’s complete free 46-page guide; this is not the Atomic Habits book.
Beginner
Atomic Habits
Start: Read the opening chapters, choose one small habit and specify when and where you will practise it.
Bengali print edition · Purchase required.
Put it into practice
Research & frameworks
Courses & resources
OpenStax · College Success: time and priorities (opens in a new tab)Free web textbook and publisher PDF; print copies are sold separately.
Start: Open 3.4 How to Manage Time.
OpenLearn · Succeed with learning (opens in a new tab)Free to read; progress tracking and some activities require a free account.
Start: Read Reflection in Week 1.
EEF · Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning (opens in a new tab)Free guidance, recommendations and teacher resources.
Start: Start with the summary of recommendations, then the Metacognitive strategies resource.