164. How to Shift Your Focus During Busy Seasons of Your Life

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this podcast episode, we discuss how to shift priorities while still getting your things done. We discuss the importance of communication and collaboration with family members and other teachers. We also discuss the In this episode we share: How to identify your shift of focus and priorities How being proactive can make these times easier for you Creating a plan for non-negotiables and figuring out what you can let go of Making adjustments as you go and also coming back to where you started 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!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Michelle Emerson and Bridget Spackman, and we are here
0:07.0	to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.9	If you don't know by now, the idea behind a lot of our podcast episodes come from phone calls
0:19.0	between Bridget and I on our walks. Sometimes words just
0:22.5	spill out of our mouths when we're ranting or chatting. We'll call it chatting. And we both will
0:28.2	be like, wait, this would make a great podcast episode. And today we have one of those topics.
0:34.1	We think everyone experiences and we want to share our perspective. But first, we're going to
0:40.0	hear a TSA from April. April says, I've just gone back to teaching after staying home for 14 years.
0:47.4	I used to teach fourth. I'm now teaching second. We are allowed to choose between a couple of
0:52.0	literacy curriculums, which sounds wonderful, but it's
0:55.3	been a truly difficult thing for me. After starting with one of the curriculums and investing a lot of
1:00.8	money into it, I've made a tough decision to switch. My time-sucking hurdle is pouring over
1:06.6	both curriculums to make sure no skill or concept is missed to teach my students. Any advice? Thank you.
1:13.9	I love listening to you both. Well, thank you, April. First of all, switching curriculums is hard,
1:20.5	especially if it happens like in the middle of the school year. I remember when I taught second
1:25.9	grade. Initially, we didn't really have
1:28.5	a math curriculum. At least we didn't have one that we actually used. And then in like the middle
1:33.7	of my third year of teaching, we adopted everyday mathematics. And suddenly I had to learn this
1:40.0	whole new structure for teaching my math lessons. And it was a lot of materials to prep and it was
1:47.6	overwhelming, which kind of inspired this episode because to me, something like adopting a new
1:54.3	curriculum, it kind of creates this new, like busy season of your life. And so during those times, you have to shift focus. And if you're
2:04.0	like, okay, but how the heck do I do that? We're going to chat about it in this episode. So just keep
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