I'm with Trev on this one: "I just think it’s completely out of touch to believe that ‘a good dose of gtd’ will end cramming and late assignments."

I happen to teach at the high school level. I also happen to employ many GTD techniques to keep myself together. During intro-level courses in particular, I incorporate organizational skills, study techniques, time-management skills, et. al. into the curriculum. Additionally, I embody those skills day to day in the classroom. Most of my students are far more concerned with their own universe(short-term socially influenced events) to ever consider taking practical advice from someone as utterly uncool as their teacher. Not to say that that it's all for naught. Certain students soak it up and others depend on these skills to scrape by. But as a whole, the teenage paradigm remains unfazed.

Don't you recall your outlook during those years? Something to the tune of, "Dude, my teachers/parents are like so out of touch. They don't know anything." In the teenage universe, the notion of time is a wholly different concept than in the adult universe. What is more evident in this age group is concern over the tangible short-term outcomes revolving around social influences. Developmentally, adolescent boys in particular lack the ability to consider things like long-term goals. The concept of precious time is obviously absent on occasion for these reasons.

I'm afraid that many students complete tasks (homework, studying) simply to get them done, rather than to learn or to understand. As such, I strive to cultivate a self-motivated learner in my students. Once this ideal trait is achieved, then one can begin to value and then appropriate time.

Tomorrow's lesson: "Act before there is a problem; Bring order before there is disorder." Perhaps interpreting Lao Tzu ought to be taught more often in high schools.