A human is only a human
who has limitations and many problems in life. Therefore, it is a normal thing
that cannot be avoided. The reason is that the human is only a creature that
has the existence in this sphere because of God’s power. Sometimes, the human
is never satisfied with everything that he/she has. We try to get something out
of mind by forcing ourselves. Frankly speaking, the most important thing that
has to be decoded that is human’s ability has limitations that cannot be forced
to learn or remember everything in once directly because it needs time and
space to have a rest inside the process. Consequently, our need to take a rest
will make us think how to manage our study time in order that it has an important
key which brings how to study better and get our target in studying. There are
several opinions that will make us realize how important the rest time is. Many
of them strengthen the fact that the rest time is needed in the learning
process.
In one case, a pressure
can be caused by studying without taking a rest. If we study hard without
taking a rest, it will press our mind. Then, the pressure influences our
emotional level. As the result, we will be more sensitive to having negative
expression such as anger, fear, or sadness. Studying without taking a rest is like
giving pressure into our brain without stopping. For instance, let us see the
Cikampek high way in Jakarta. If there is no traffic light for controlling the
high way, that way will be crowded and have traffic jam. In the same side, it
will have similarity with the human’s brain that is forced to think without
taking a break. That statement is strengthened by Matthew Walker, director of
the Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab at the
University of California, Berkeley. He said that sleep is important for our
life like how important the magnetic north is for a compass. From Matthew’s
opinion, we comprehend how essential taking a rest is in our life, especially
in the case of the learning process. The reason is that taking a rest will give
time for brain processing the previous data which is entered from the studying
process. Moreover, we try to learn English at that time. Learning language
needs more memory to remember the vocabularies, how to pronounce well, how to
use the correct grammar and so on. Importantly, we have to know that having
less rest can press our brain.
On
the other side, getting enough rest or sleep will give time to relax our mind.
It means that the relaxation happens in our brain. By having rest, our brain
will be fresh to get new materials. Actually, the children’s life really gets
the impact of this phenomenon. An article whose title is Tips for Helping Young
Children (Gina Kemp, M.A., Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., Deborah Cutter, Psy.D., Ellen
Jaffe-Gill, M.A., and Melinda Smith, M.A. : 2009) talks about how essential
taking a rest is. It tells that the sleep or rest time is important to have good
learning so we will study well with the condition that having enough rest. The
reason is that an exhausted child who has full activities during the day will
get more difficulties to focus on studying and learning something new. We can
check an example in the sixth grade of Miftahul Ulum Islamic Private Elementary
School of Batu. After having a whole day studying in the formal class, the
students have to get some extra time of studying for several subject matters
which will be materials of the national examination. It will be more effective
for studying if students have enough time to take a rest before having the
following lesson.
Getting more pressure in the learning process has to
be balanced by getting the rest time, but it will be complicated to manage the
time without any schedule. In this phase, making a study planning
makes our study better. The following steps will help to solve the problem of
time management in study process.
The first step is arranging the schedule. In
arranging the schedule, we have to choose what activities are inside our plan.
We should divide which one as the priority and make them in list. For instance,
we take English as the priority of the subject matter. In our schedule, we have
several subject matters, but we focus on English. In this case, we give more
time for learning English in our activities list. In the schedule, we have
three hours to study. We can take an hour and a half for studying English,
thirty minutes for taking a rest, and the rest one hour for doing homework. The
priority can be applied in the other subject matters such as Mathematics,
Economics, Arabic, Physics, and so on. In this case, the schedule that we want
to make is flexible based on what we need.
As the following step, deciding the time duration
which is needed to study and take a rest will cover the whole
part of the plan, so it is considered to be essential to think in making the
study planning. The choosing time duration of study will consider the duration
of each time that we have to study and take a rest. As the instance, our study
time is three hours per day outside the study time in the school. Try to think
whether it is too hard for you or not. If you think that it is too difficult to
be done, you can change with the duration that you are able to do it. It may be
for about two hours per day or it can be up to you based on your ability. The
reason is if we force ourselves to study longer and harder than our ability, it
also can give pressure in our mind. Be careful to decide the duration of your
studying! This step is important because it will influence how long the
duration you can use to study.
After
making sure about the time duration of the whole of time in our study planning,
we try to produce the decision when we will have our rest time among the study
time. The separation time that can be used is an hour for studying, a half hour
for taking a rest, the following hour for continuing the study, and then the
last thirty minutes for refreshing our mind. This plan may be changed based on
our need. Like what is explained above, when we give English as one of the
example, it has been explained that the rest time can be taken in the middle of
two activities inside the daily list. Therefore, the rest time will give a space
for our mind to be calm down before continuing to study the other subject
matters.
Finishing
the plan of study, we should try to apply the schedule that we have made into
our daily life. It may be hard at the first time we try, but it will be easier
for the following application. Moreover, the pressure, relaxation and study
planning will be followed by some implication which is brought automatically.
The various effects can be seen in the following passage.
Applying the schedule above will bring a balance
in our life because we have our study time and enough time to take a rest. The
reason is that we can enjoy our rest time between two activities, so it can
refresh our mind. As the result, having rest will make us health. It is not
only for our mind but also our body. If we have healthy mind, we will have
healthy body. This effect will come first when we apply the plan in our daily
life because the effect can be felt directly. Besides that, this effect can be
seen clearly by the other people. For example, we have studied in the whole
night on the previous day. Then, we have to go to school early in the morning.
Consequently, we will look exhausted and our face will be pale. On the other
example, if we get less sleep on the previous night, we will be sleepy in the
class and cannot catch the lesson from our teacher.
The other effect that we can get from making the
schedule for improving our study is the raising of some aspects in the learning
process. In the term of study, this plan brings exciting and enjoying situation
because we get the rest time before learning the other lessons or doing
homework from the other teacher. Then, a joyful situation gives students an indirect
impact. It is a motivation for studying, so we will be able to study regularly.
The motivation is very helpful to encourage us to get a better improvement of
learning something. As the instance, we have a good plan for studying every day,
it will make us easy to prepare subject matters on for the following day. We
say that the final effect is related to the result of our study. The result of
the study depends on how good we manage our study time.
In the studying process, the rest time is absolutely
needed to improve our skill because it will bring several effects into our
life. It can be good or bad, so we need a schedule to help us manage our time
easily. In conclusion, the rest time is needed for both of our physic and
improvement of study. As the good human, we have to learn how to manage our
time well in order to increase the quality of our studying.
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