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Teaching to the TOP

180. Quick Tips for Teacher Time Sucking Hurdles (Part 3)

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8667 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been collecting Time Sucking Hurdles for 3 years now! For those of you that are new to our podcast, a time sucking hurdle are the tasks or distractions that suck up all of our time from what we really should be doing. Sometimes these hurdles are our own faults and sometimes these come at the faults of others.  And while we would love to share them all we don’t have the time or the number of episodes. In this episode we are sharing 10 recent Time Sucking Hurdles in the hope that it can inspire you and answer a hurdle of your own. We would love for you to complete our TSH form so that we can continue to share these to our community! 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,

0:05.8

and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and

0:10.4

productivity as a teacher. We're back with one of your favorite episodes. That might be a lie.

0:17.3

We have no idea if it's your favorite, But these episodes are some of our most popular,

0:22.3

so, you know, we can just pretend. We are going to share some quick tips for time-sucking

0:27.4

hurdles that have been submitted via our website at teach on the double.com slash t-sh. And because

0:34.0

this is going to be a T-S-H episode, we are going to just bypass the normal like TSHs that we do at the very beginning.

0:40.6

And we're going to jump right on in to our very first TSA.

0:45.3

Yes.

0:45.9

Our first TSA is from a top teacher.

0:48.7

This top teacher says, hi, I loved listening to your podcast as I get ready in the morning.

0:53.9

However, I do always forget

0:56.2

something. It's always something this results in me being stressed and sometimes late to school.

1:02.6

Help. Yeah, I relate to this so much because I feel like the older that I've gotten, the worse

1:09.3

it ends up getting for me.

1:11.8

But my recommendation to you, and Michelle, you're going to have to chime in and remind me

1:16.6

where we got this from.

1:18.4

Was it David Allen's book Getting Things Done, where we talked about like having a notebook

1:24.5

to be able to catch your thoughts?

1:30.2

Yes. Getting Things Done was like one of the overarching rules was capture everything. So as soon as something comes into your mind, you need

1:36.4

someplace to capture it. Yes. So top teacher, I would recommend having some form of a small notebook.

1:42.2

I wouldn't do like a normal paper-sized notebook,

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