111. How to Become THAT Teacher: Time Management Edition

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It’s amazing how large of a role your mindset can play when building new habits. When we say things about our identity both positively or negatively it can hinder who we are trying to become. As the saying goes… if we say it often enough, we start to believe it. Recently, there has been a trend going around on TikTok about being “THAT Girl”. It eludes that this is someone who has their life together. She wakes up and meditates on a yoga mat facing the sun and makes her bed. She is THAT girl that everyone wants to be. While we know this is not TikTok, we recognize that as teachers, we all know that one teacher in our buildings that we all see as THAT teacher. She has her lessons planned far in advance. She leaves right at the end of her contract hours and never seems to be frazzled or overwhelmed. This episode is not about being perfect… we believe that there is no such thing as perfect. But it is all about making changes in order to take on a new identity and feel more like THAT teacher. In this episode we share: Mindset shift 1: Instead of saying “I don’t have enough time” say “I always have enough time for my priorities” Mindset shift 2: Instead of saying “It’s faster/better if I just do it myself” say “I can ask for help when needed” Mindset shift 3: Instead of saying “This will just take a minute” say “I can find time to do this later” SUBMIT YOUR TIME SUCKING HURDLE! We want to know what is sucking up all of your time either as a teacher or just a person. Head over to our website and submit your TSH so that you can have a chance to be featured on the podcast! 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 Emerson,
0:05.2	and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,
0:10.5	and productivity as a teacher. This month, we are focusing all on time management.
0:15.6	In our last episode, 110, we shared to some of our struggles with time management.
0:20.5	And in today's episode, we want to really
0:22.8	understand what it takes to be that teacher in your building that has it all together.
0:28.3	But first, let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Emily. Emily says her TSAH is administrators
0:35.6	who expect work completed beyond the realm of contract hours
0:39.0	feasibility. I'm a first year teacher at a new school and have tried going to my team
0:43.9	lead and administrators several times to ask for help regarding my constant overwhelm.
0:49.1	They simply tell me to fit it all in or that's just part of the job to take it home.
0:54.1	They speak down to me when I
0:55.3	discuss my desire to stop after contract hours and explain that even seasoned teachers
0:59.7	must plan to take things home every day. That really irks me. I kind of got a little spicy.
1:09.0	I feel like towards the, like a feisty, spicy. I don't know.
1:12.2	Like I had a Latina here. Towards the very end of that. Like Emily, I really, I hate to say this, but you need to stop listening to your administrators.
1:22.3	Clearly they have this idea that in order to be successful, you have to work yourself to the bone.
1:28.9	You don't need to do this. And there are always, there are so many different ways in which you can work only contract hours.
1:35.6	Yeah, I agree. This one made me mad because, first of all, I think so many teachers are convinced that either it's impossible to only work contract hours.
1:47.1	And so therefore, they constantly find ways to keep working when at the end of the day,
1:53.0	if they truly sat down and said, you know what, like I'm going to just work contract hours,
1:57.1	you can do it. It's all about prioritizing. And obviously, you're not going to get everything
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