Procrastination, Avoiding Judgment, and Structuring Projects

<p>In this solo episode of the Prof Talk Pod, host Becky Achen challenges faculty to avoid judging procrastination by recognizing similar patterns in their own teaching, research, and service workloads, and suggests building connection by sharing “humanness” and offering grace alongside guidance. Becky offers practical strategies to support student time management, including better sequencing of major assessments, breaking big projects into checkpoints with feedback, providing weekly work plans in Canvas, using no-point draft assignments to populate to-do lists, encouraging self-imposed deadlines in upper-level courses, modeling planning behaviors, and explicitly reviewing assignments and rubrics to clarify expectations and workload.</p>