Personal Kanban For A 12y Old – Improving Homework It Will?
After some discussion about how we could improve the weekly homework for our 12y old, I introduced the tool I use myself. Personal Kanban.
With a few adjustments from “Traditional Personal Kanban” (is there such a thing?) and much curiosity from the 12y old we started a few days ago.
12y Old Personal Kanban Setup:
- One “To Do” column with all weekly tasks.
For now it includes homework and guitar practice tasks.
All tasks were discussed and finally agreed by her to be a “normal school week”. - Three lanes for each day, “Afternoon”, “Evening” and “Done” (at the bottom).
Needed since we have specific deadlines per subject, and it’s easy for her to plan a full week. - Some slots disqualified by planned tasks such as Scouting and Dance lessons.
Good for showing the days that she will not be able to do any of the “weekly tasks” at all.
The 12y old have the freedom to choose days for her tasks. With very few restriction… like… it’s not “optimal” to do all five “15 minutes guitar practice” tasks on the same day. She wanted to put all tasks up in the start of the week, but we alse talked about leaving them in the “To Do” column until started upon.
We noted if any specific subject have a “deadline day”. Math always to be completed until Monday for example. (Easy now when each week looks the same).
Any additional “none weekly task” could be added if she need to keep track on it.
It’s still the first week, but the first impression from us and the 12y old are really positive. She finds it satisfying to move tasks to the “Done” slot, just like me ;)
On Sunday we will reset the Kanban and start all over again. Perhaps a small retrospective… nah… not this time ;)
This could really work!
