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Teaching to the TOP

030. Q&A: Your Time Management Questions Answered

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8667 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We get countless questions regarding how we manage to do it all. From getting things done to managing our teaching careers with our passions and businesses, we share it all!  In this episode, we are answering YOUR questions, but because we had so many, we have organized them into three separate episodes. This is the first of three episodes and we are going to answer all your time management questions.  ANSWERING YOUR TIME MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS: Below are the questions we have answered. Even if we did not get to answer all the questions that were asked you are able to gain some informative insight into how we manage our time. Have you got any tips for not working too much during quarantine? From arrustemaj1 How do you balance your time away from school with school work on extended breaks? From ms.brittnidoyle How do you find the balance between planning ahead and being flexible? From hawth018 How do you make the best use of your planning time? We have 40 minutes a day. From thecaffinatedcandidclassroom What time management tips do you have for a student working on his BA during quarantine? From edgar 780 How to spend less time grading but still have a fair and accurate number grade for report cards? From jamiesloan14  How do I have my students have good time management but still do well in class? From teachwith_mrsguire  You seem very involved in school and other things. How do you balance it? From ali_malone4 Can you go over creating a schedule for your planning to be more productive? From heathnoel34 How do you make time for your podcast, tpt, etc. businesses on top of teaching? From wajwilliams4 How do you manage to plan time for other obligations besides teaching? Ex: Youtube From teachingwithpositivity Top tip for 1st year teachers to establish work-life balance? I start my first job in August. From baker_girl_91 How much prep time you have a week & how your contract hours compare to student hour From teachinginthegoldenstate Do you recommend planning your entire week ahead of time or preparing day to day? From arthur_dynasty How do you manage your time and stay productive in the summer? From scout1283 What is the biggest time saving tip you can give? From dashielberkofficial CONCLUSION Time management is determining the value in return for each task that you complete in a given day. Ask yourself whether the task is helping you towards your goals, and define your time blocks to completing those tasks that get you closer.  SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0

Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your hosts, Michelle Farray and Bridget Spackman,

0:05.8

and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,

0:10.5

and productivity as a teacher. Today's episode is going to be different, but in the best way possible.

0:17.0

We are going to be answering some of your top questions. Get it top time management organization

0:23.5

productivity. Now, Ridget and I reached out to you all on Instagram and we wanted to know what

0:29.3

questions you had. And we were overwhelmed again in the best way possible by all of your questions.

0:35.1

So instead of doing a single Q&A episode, we did decide to break this into

0:39.5

three separate episodes. So in today's episode, we're going to focus only on those time management

0:45.7

questions. Yes, and absolutely, guys, before we jump into that, we first want to share a TSAH

0:52.4

from Michelle, who says, my TH is getting buried by all the little

0:56.9

tasks. Those two minute things that they add up and suck away any time I have to get projects

1:02.2

planned and completed. Michelle, I totally understand you on this. I think a lot of the times

1:07.6

we have a tendency to underestimate or either overestimate how much

1:12.9

certain things are going to end up taking us.

1:15.1

I know for me personally, I was always in that really bad habit of saying, okay, I'm going to

1:19.3

work really, really hard and I'm going to try to get this done in an hour.

1:22.2

When in reality, it was more of a two or three hour job, but I was just trying to put that

1:27.0

pressure on me because I

1:28.4

felt as though if I worked super hard, I could get it done. So I think that's always a really big thing

1:33.9

is having to kind of be realistic when it comes to what are the tasks and how long is it going

1:39.8

to take for me to complete it. Yeah, and just to clarify, this is not me. This is a different,

1:46.3

Michelle. Oh, yes. I'm so sorry. So I definitely have experienced this also. And I think what has helped

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