072. 5 Things Teachers No Longer Need (and What To Do Instead)

Teaching to the TOP

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Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Are there certain areas of your life where you are happy with exactly how it is? You feel this way because it’s become a habit but have you ever sat back and considered if what you are doing is actually helping your productivity. Today we are chatting about 5 things that teachers no longer need! Yes, we will most likely touch on something that you are still doing but should start looking for alternative methods to help boost your productivity in and outside of the classroom. So what are the 5 things teachers no longer need? Well, we go in depth about why you don’t need these five items and what you SHOULD be doing instead. The Five Things Teachers No Longer Need: Filing Cabinets/ Binders Notebooks and papers Center Materials Forms Paper Planner In this episode we share: How to transition from using binders and filing cabinets to a digital format Why notebooks don’t help your professional development and how you can use digital note taking to start implementing your new learning What to do with all those digital center materials you’ve accumulated over this past year and limit how much you are preparing for in-person centers next year What forms can go digital to make processing, locating and maintaining records easier Why a digital planner can make your life easier and planning less time consuming LINKS: TOP Digital Teacher Planner 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
0:07.3	your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.5	If you love to purge and get rid of things, then today's episode is for you. We are going to be
0:19.4	sharing five things teachers no longer need and can get rid of,
0:23.1	plus we will share with you what you can do instead. But before we jump into this episode,
0:29.0	let's hear a TSA from Melinda. My TSA is organizing paper, girl, you and so many other people.
0:54.6	I don't put things away when I'm finished and leave it for later. Laders in quotes, guys. The next year, when I teach that chapter, I have a box of materials to organize before getting started. This is something that teachers are all guilty of myself included, even though I do tend to be pretty organized. I have those drawers where I sometimes stuff papers. And I love that she put
0:59.7	later in quotes, because we all know what that really means, we're not going to ever get to it.
1:04.7	But the reality is that we are just making our lives harder when we need to be doing the opposite.
1:10.3	I feel like everything we preach
1:12.2	in this podcast is about how to make your life easier. I mean, we have that in the intro.
1:16.7	So I think today's episode is going to really help with this because we are going to share some
1:21.6	strategies of ways to transform your papers into digital materials. So this is no longer a problem.
1:29.1	You know, I've been really guilty of not using the same materials because I don't have them
1:33.7	with me or I haven't put them away and they're just stacked in like this bucket inside of my closet.
1:39.2	So this past year, I have really been focusing on transitioning over to having everything online, making my
1:46.1	planning so much easier and ensuring that I'm not wasting time trying to reinvent the wheel
1:51.0	and remember what was it that I did last year? Yeah. Now, before we jump too far into today's episode,
1:58.7	we just want to make this really clear. We're not saying you have to
2:02.6	completely eliminate these items from your teacher life. Rather, we are suggesting that you
2:08.3	adapt and transform these materials to be used digitally. So you have to ask yourself, does it matter
2:16.0	that this is on paper or can it be made digital?
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