Paul Laohapiengsak

Paul’s Target Planner

Target planner is designed class with many steps required to pursue and achieve goals.  The bull eye’s design makes it easy for users to see the due dates from the first to the last step.  The target planner notifies users ahead of time of each step and the due date which would allow them to maximize their ability to complete assignments as they have an efficient amount of time.  The ideal classes that will work well with the Target Planner are classes with many steps toward a certain goal.

I used the target planner for both my ENL 213 class (English for non native speaker) and PSY 205 (introduction to Psychology).  The Target Planner is really helpful for my research project for my English class as there are many steps toward the final draft.  Also, Target planner is an excellent strategy to study for my psychology test because there are many chapters consisted in the test.  Therefore, I could study each chapter and build up to the last chapter to be ready for the exam. 

Since I have trouble staying focused on one particular topic or assignment for a long period of time, the target planner is a good way to set deadlines for specific portions of the complete assignment. For instance, in my psych 205 course, I split up the sections and chapters to study for so that I had a deadline for each chapter to study for. This way, I was forced to read and study a certain amount of pages in the text by a certain date so that I would not fall behind in my work. Psychology is a lot of textbook reading and memorization, so it is important that I spend a sufficient amount of time on each section/chapter in order to fully understand the material. Target Planner keeps me organized and concentrated on completing smaller parts of the ultimate goal or assignment so that I do not get overwhelmed or stressed out.

In my English class I have a research paper due toward the end of the semester. I know that I would just end up putting everything off until late April if I didn’t make a target planner, so I divided the assignment into smaller pieces to make it less stressful to think about. Now, my concentration is on the rough draft instead of the final draft. This makes me feel better about the final product when it comes time to complete the final draft because I will already have an essay that I can make changes on and fix.

I will definitely be using the target planner more often, especially in my mathematics 284 class. This class consists of weekly webassign homework. The target planner will help me break up the weekly assignments and complete them periodically throughout the week, rather than on a Saturday or Sunday night. I would recommend using this strategy to anyone that has trouble staying organized or that often times puts off work until the day before or even at the due date.