057. How to ONLY Work Contract Hours as a Teacher

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Are you ready to learn how to ONLY work your contract hours as a teacher!? This episode has been a long awaited one and we are so excited to share it with you. We also have a freebie that goes along with this episode. You can sign up and download your 30 Days to ONLY Working Contract Hours guide right here. Follow this guide and you will be one step closer to working the hours you have been wanting to achieve. -------------------- We started just like so many other teachers, working countless hours and taking work home on the evenings and weekends. After years of trying to find a way to work ONLY contract hours we have done it! We have found the exact strategies and tools that can help you and that have also worked for us for the past year. In this episode we share: Our journey on working only contract hours The importance of finding a greater purpose How minimizing the amount of items you have can focus you and your time The value of dedicating your planning time to specific tasks Honing in on your own personal teaching style Collaborating with your team to work smarter, not harder Batching your work to get more done in less time Check out Episode #008: Get More Done Using One Simple Trick to learn more about how you can use batching to do more in less time. 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 Emerson and Bridget Spackman, and we are here to make you our life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher. Today is a big episode. We are going to be making all your teacher dreams come true by discussing how to
0:23.3	only work contract hours as a teacher. This is something we all strive for and ultimately
0:30.2	want to achieve, but the reality is it's hard. So if you're feeling stuck and can't seem to
0:36.1	turn off your teacher brain when you get home,
0:38.0	this episode is for you.
0:40.9	You know, and I want to kind of pause really fast because I think Michelle and I have really
0:44.6	been on this journey ourselves, right?
0:47.0	And it is, I think, officially been, has it been like a full year where you and I have
0:53.6	successfully been able to work only contract
0:57.2	hours? Yeah. Yeah. It has. It has. It really has. And we've done a lot of the things and we haven't
1:03.0	really done this episode yet because we want to be able to practice what we preach. Right.
1:08.6	We want to make sure that the the things that we share with you really truly do work.
1:14.7	And so I feel great knowing that I leave at the end of the day and I'm still a really good
1:21.1	teacher.
1:22.0	You know what I mean?
1:22.9	So I'm getting really ahead of here.
1:25.3	So let's go ahead and I'm going to pause for a second. And let's hear a TSA from a top teacher. So this teacher says feeling like I have too much to do. Priorities get lost in all the showers of things that admin wants, parents want, students need, I need, etc. What comes first? Where do I fit in with this? With the
1:47.3	remote learning, I have ended up online some days from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. or later. It made me feel
1:54.3	overwhelmed, unmotivated, and yes, inadequate. Where did my boundaries go? How can I get them back? You all can't see me,
2:03.8	but the entire time Bridgett was reading that TSA, I was nodding my head because I have been there.
2:09.4	I think we all have. And the reality is it's hard. It's difficult. I'm not going to stand here. Well, technically I'm sitting. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you all and say, oh, well, it's easy. You just do X, Y, and C. And then all your teacher dreams come true. That's not the reality. Now, hopefully today's episode will help, but I feel like we both should kind of outline our journey as a teacher because we want to make it clear that we did not start by
2:35.3	only teaching contract hours. It's something we've had to learn over time. And obviously,
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