217. Information Overload: Our Best Tips and Tricks for Managing All the "New" Education Initiatives

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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With education taking a complete overhaul with its practices and districts feeling the need to add too many initiatives onto the plate of their teachers, everyone is feeling overwhelmed. While this push for improving the education of students is not going away, there are some simple practices and strategies that you can begin using to help from feeling exhausted and overwhelmed with information. In this new episode we share our best tips and tricks for combating the overwhelm and process through the loads of information to find the key pieces and starting points. You’ll find that with these strategies you can feel more focused on the task at hand, and make great strides without finding a breaking point. 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 host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.7	With the transition that we've been making in education, many schools are implementing new curriculums, initiatives, and giving more opportunities to learn about new research
0:21.8	that is out there. But how do we deal with it all? In this episode, we want to share some tips
0:26.9	for handling information overload. But first, let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Madeline.
0:33.9	Madeline says, hi, my school in Australia is going to implement structured literacy next year,
0:39.0	2024. Any tips and advice would be handy. An episode on your podcast would be much appreciated.
0:45.5	Madeline, we're answering that request. This episode is definitely going to be for you.
0:51.1	I will say structured literacy is something, an initiative that has been
0:55.5	implemented within the state of Pennsylvania. So it's been kind of brought down as like an act from
1:00.8	the state saying that every school needs to have structured literacy, yada, yada, yada. It's a whole wordy
1:07.1	situation. And structured literacy can be really overwhelming. And so for a lot of you that are
1:13.1	out there listening and you're like, well, what in the world is structured literacy? Basically,
1:17.6	structured literacy is taking the science of reading and it's giving the how to do it. It is the how
1:24.4	of the science that we are getting about how children learn. And so with all that
1:30.7	knowledge of how kids learn to read, what are those strategies and how are we implementing those
1:35.9	into our classrooms is important. It's one of the pieces that a lot of the science is missing.
1:41.6	And so structured literacy is that call to be able to answer that. They're saying,
1:46.0	oh, here's the science. And now here's some like explicit strategies that you can be using to help
1:52.7	achieve whatever the science is saying. So that is basically it in a nutshell. And if you think about
1:59.9	literacy in general, there are five elements.
2:02.8	Really, there should be six, but nobody's asking me. You have the phonological awareness,
2:09.4	phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency. I think writing needs to be in there as well.
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