116. Organization Habits Every Teacher Should Build

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We all know the importance of building effective habits; we preach this every single episode. Today we want to share some habits that every teacher should be building when it comes to organization. This episode is part of our mini-series where we breakdown T.O.P. and share effective and simple strategies to help you be your very best YOU! Remember we are basing our structure for building these habits from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits. We did an entire episode where we go in depth in the readings of Atomic Habits. You can hear our thoughts on the book by checking out episode 107. Tiny Changes That Give You Big Results! In this episode we share: 6 habits that you should start to become a more organized person Reasons for why these habits are so important to build Examples for what these habits will look like in a day Tips for help making these habits work 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 hosts, Michelle Emerson.
0:04.0	And Bridget Spackman, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.0	We are back together. Well, not together, but we are both in the same podcast episode because last week I was solo hosting a week in my life and Bridget
0:23.0	will be doing the same thing next week. But today we are sharing some organization habits.
0:29.5	We believe every teacher should build. So good. But before we do that, we're going to listen to a
0:36.3	TSA from Courtney. Courtney says, I want to
0:39.3	organize my digital life and have resources grouped together by topic and my drive. But how do I make that
0:47.2	happen when so many resources are lumped together in bigger PDFs? This is such a good TSA.
0:56.1	Yeah, Courtney, I love that you submitted this TSA because I know this is a problem that all teachers have when it comes to those huge
1:02.2	PDF files that have like hundreds of pages. Sometimes they fit into multiple categories,
1:07.7	so you aren't sure where to organize it. I'm going to give kind of a radical
1:12.3	suggestion, so go with me on this. What if you stored all of those PDFs in a single folder?
1:18.9	Maybe you called it like resources. And then within each topic folder, you create a Google Doc
1:26.2	where you list all the resources you have related to that topic and, you create a Google Doc where you list all the resources you have related
1:29.2	to that topic, and then you link to the PDF that you have in that other folder. You could even
1:36.2	put the specific page number, which would help you find it really, really quickly. Sometimes we have
1:41.9	resources that aren't PDFs. So maybe it's like a physical resource book
1:45.9	or other like, you know what I mean, like those physical resource, like a game that you've
1:51.8	prepped, like those types of things. If you have a list of all of those resources within a Google
1:57.3	doc, it would allow you to reference them over time. And so you would know all the
2:02.4	materials you had, and then those physical materials could be stored elsewhere, or those really
2:07.1	big PDFs could be stored in another folder. Keep in mind, you also could then link to like
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