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courage or effort shown by the pupil, respect for the pupils’ understanding of difficulty and
confidence in the capacities and qualities to overcome problems.
Positive face work when used by the pedagogue, results in the following favourable
outcome:
• Increase in the pupil’s willingness to consider the helper’s message.
• Internet in interacting with the helper.

• Liking for the pedagogue.
• Develop acceptance and trust.
• Leads to effective communication.

11. Effective time-management principles:
1. Setting priorities, listing major goals, rating each goal, and asking oneself what is most
important for them to do: It is often seen that people do not set their priorities. Setting
priorities will help individuals to plan effectively. It is also essential to identify and
list major goals. Rating each goal in terms of which extent one has accomplished is
important. Individuals also lack self-introspection and it is required for them to ask
themselves as to what they are doing is important for them or not.
2. List what needs to be done this week in order to reach your top priority goals. Rate
each activity: It is very beneficial to review your situation each week, giving a few
minutes of serious thought to what actually needs to be done to achieve your goals.
It is needed to set one’s mind in such a way so as to translate one’s major purposes
in life—one’s aspirations-into concrete actions. Based on one’s rather wide-ranging
thoughts and feelings, making a realistic list of the learning and work that seems to be
required to reach one’s ‘top’ priority goals. Being creative and realistic is also essential.
Goals should not be confused with activities.
3. Observe how you spend your time: It could be an eye-opening experience to simply
record how one spends one’s 168 hours per week. Noting how one wastes time, spends
time on low priority tasks, has trouble getting started, or tends to be inefficient. This kind
of information may be useful in setting up a daily schedule so that one will stay on task.
4. Make a master schedule of fixed activities for the week: A master schedule for the week
tells one what time is ‘committed’, i.e., time periods that one has already scheduled.
It includes sleeping, dressing, eating, travel time, meetings or classes, housekeeping
chores, time with loved ones, friends or children, and some leisure- relaxation-exer-
cise time. This is one’s fixed schedule. It includes the things that one must do. One’s
master schedule will be pretty stable week after week. The master schedule identifies
the hours that are ‘free’, that one has control over.
5. Keep a running list of assignments—things one needs to get done this week: Keep
track of what needs to be done soon, e.g., get a report written. Note any due dates, the
time required (remember many things take twice as much time as we expected), and
the importance of the task.

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