123.Testing Coping Strategies for Teachers

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Raise your hand if any of these statements are true for you: You're waking up later in the mornings. You find yourself slacking on your normal routines. You are exhausted in the afternoons. You’d rather be spending time in the sunshine than cooped up indoors. This time of year is always filled with dreaded testing! Whether it’s standardized testing or end of the year assessments, your students are drained and honestly, so are you! We are going to share some coping strategies you can use to handle the stress, overwhelm, change of routine, and just plain boredom teachers all experience during testing! In this episode you will hear: Be proactive by gathering materials and organizing these in advance. Try and define some form of consistency for yourself and for your students. Develop a new schedule and have this displayed in an area where you can reference this. Utilize the down time and be proactive for finalizing end of the year tasks. 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.
0:02.4	We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson,
0:05.3	and we are here to make your life easier
0:07.5	by helping you master your time, organization,
0:10.3	and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.9	This time of the year is always filled with dreaded testing.
0:17.9	Whether it's standardized testing or end of the yearthe-year assessments, your students are drained,
0:22.6	and honestly, so are you. We're going to share some coping strategies that you can use to handle
0:28.2	the stress, overwhelm, change of routine, and just plain boredom teachers all experience
0:33.5	during testing. But first, let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Kelly. Kelly says,
0:39.5	hello ladies. That kind of makes me feel like office ladies. Yeah. And I'm honored.
0:44.9	Kelly says, my TSA happens occasionally. It happens at the end of the day when I'm completely drained
0:51.2	after teaching my little kinders. Sometimes after meetings and after school, my brain is mush.
0:57.4	Powerless definitely helps.
0:59.3	I often feel tapped out mentally and physically.
1:02.3	My brain is in a fog.
1:03.8	Sometimes I end up just heading home, but often I try to push through, but end up struggling.
1:09.6	Help this tapped out teacher focus and not feel
1:12.4	so drained. Yeah, Kelly, I completely understand where you're coming from. You've spent so much of
1:18.2	your day trying to make decisions and take care of your kinders that anything that requires a
1:21.9	decision is just not going to happen at that point. We've definitely all been there, and I want you to
1:26.3	think about this question. Can you
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