168. Your Ultimate Checklist of Checklists: What Every Teacher Needs to Stay Sane

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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If you've been around for a while then you know how much we love checklists. They can keep you on track, help you remember what you needed at the grocery store, and give you that little extra time in bed each morning. When you have a checklist that has been curated with thought, you'll find that your checklist will do a lot of the work for you. In this episode, we are breaking down our favorite checklists to create. We give each of the categories you need to consider and some ideas for the checklists to make for those categories. We also dive into understanding how to store these checklists so that you are more likely to use them. You might want to save this episode because it will definitely be one that you come back to again and again. Learn about: Planning checklists Holiday/event checklists Teacher Duty checklists Personal checklists Plus, how to modify and adjust them as you go! 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 and Bridget Spackman,
0:05.9	and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,
0:10.0	and productivity as a teacher. If you've listened to our podcast for a bit, you already know
0:15.9	we love a good checklist. I mean, it's just so satisfying, checking off the boxes, right? But in today's
0:22.7	episode, we're kicking it up a notch. We're going to give you your ultimate checklist of
0:28.6	checklists, aka all the things you need to stay sane as a teacher. But first, before we dive in,
0:35.8	we're going to listen to a TSA from Ramelli. I hope that I said
0:40.0	your name correctly, Ramelli, and I do apologize if I did not. But Ramelli says, currently my TSA is my
0:47.1	commute time. I am already waking up at 5 a.m. to get ready and get going for the day. After school,
0:53.0	not only am I exhausted, but I have to leave
0:55.4	by a certain time or I get stuck in traffic for up to an hour some days. So I end up feeling stressed
1:02.7	out because there's not enough time to go early and there's not enough time after school.
1:07.4	If I try to do any work at home, I feel guilty for using my own time and not having
1:11.9	work-life balance and boundaries. Any advice? First of all, I know having a long commute, it is hard.
1:20.3	And this is where you can't compare your situation to anyone else's. And it's not okay to feel guilty because it sounds like you're comparing
1:30.2	it to what you think you should be doing or what it feels like you should be doing. And ultimately,
1:34.8	everyone's situation is different. And I don't want you to feel guilty for using your own time
1:40.8	or not having that work-life balance and boundaries. At the end of the day,
1:44.6	there were times where I wanted to work at home because it made me feel better. I don't want you to
1:51.4	feel obligated to feel like you have to do it, but you should never feel guilty if you choose to or
1:58.6	want to. And ultimately, that's going to make you feel better.
2:02.6	I mean, I think Bridget and I, we do preach like trying to work your contract hours
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