036. Q&A: Your Productivity Questions Answered

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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 third in our Q&A series. Be sure to check out Episode #030 where we answer your time management questions, and Episode #032 where we discuss our organization tips. In this episode we are sharing your productivity questions. We hope that you enjoy them! YOUR PRODUCTIVITY QUESTIONS: How have you changed your ability/methods of “TOP” since your 1st years of teaching? From jaymie.nicole SPED teacher here: how do you balance the paperwork & lesson planning period? From kellseyo How do you manage to grade writing assignments in a timely fashion? They take forever! From teachuntilcontent Do you answer emails after school hours? From belenanmartin How do you prioritize your tasks? From onfireforchoir How far in advance should you be planning? From savannah_watson What are some digital tools that help you with organization and productivity? From grade3withmst How do you stay motivated on low/down/off days? From voraciousteacher & What are some ways to keep yourself motivated to complete a big task? From amber.bach17 How to stay productive and organized when others may be loading more on your plate? From alf021 What self care practices boost your productivity (in your experience)? From eeemilyp How do you deal with that one co-worker who drags down productivity? Major TSH for me!! From russellrmc What to do about things you can’t control? Ex: admin comes in and asks for report info ASAP throwing off your plan! Especially if team lead - happens a lot! From colorcodedenglishclass CONCLUSION Mastering the art of productivity is something we all strive for in our lifetime; however, it seems that at the exact moment when life is going the way we planned, everything instantly changes taking our productivity with it. Understanding what building and sustains productivity is the key. Know your strengths, weaknesses and build from that to maintain the life that you want to live. 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 host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Farray, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.7	This is going to be our final episode on the Q&A series, and today we're going to be sharing all about your productivity questions.
0:21.6	But first, let's share a TSAH or time-sucking hurdle from Dana. Dana's time-sucking hurdle is being
0:28.6	indecisive. I have so many things that I want to get done, but I have a hard time picking what
0:34.1	to work on. They all seem so important. But now I am not doing much of anything
0:39.4	to get prepared for school. We totally understand this. I think as teachers, because we have so
0:45.5	much on our plates, it feels like we have to be doing everything at once. Hopefully today's
0:50.4	episode is really going to help you break down and decide what is important and what you
0:54.9	should be working on first. So let's go ahead and jump right on into it. But first, a reminder that
1:00.3	if you haven't heard the other Q&A series episodes, definitely go back and check them out.
1:06.2	Episode 30 is going to be all about your time management questions and episode 32 is going to be on your
1:12.2	organization. So let's go ahead and jump into that very first question. This one is coming from
1:17.3	Jamie.nichol and the question is, how have you changed your ability methods of top since your
1:26.4	first years of teaching? So I think personally, I'm going to
1:30.5	break it down by top, you know, time management, organization, productivity. In terms of time
1:35.4	management, when I first started teaching, I spent a lot of time doing things I didn't need to be
1:41.0	doing. I didn't prioritize what was actually important in terms of
1:45.6	lesson planning and all of that. I very much focused on the frivolous things like creating
1:50.3	labels and things I didn't need to be doing. In terms of organization, I would say most of it has
1:56.4	stayed the same. But one thing I've really embraced is organizing things digitally and having less
2:02.2	physical papers and definitely less binders. I had a lot of binders my first year. And in terms of
2:08.1	productivity, I think I used to rely a lot on motivation rather than discipline. And if I didn't feel
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