226. Dealing With Decision Fatigue: 4 Ways to Defog Your Brain

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

According to data from busyteacher.org, teachers make an average of at least 1,500 educational decisions each school day. This means that in a six-hour day, teachers make four educational decisions every minute. Seems hard to believe? Well, when you consider how exhausted you are at the end of a work day, it actually makes a lot of sense. So how do we manage to get past decision fatigue and be able to continue living our lives after 3:30 in the afternoon? In this episode we want to share 4 ways to help defog your brain so that you can eliminate fatigue and feel in control of your time and life. LINKS: Episode 008: Get More Done Using One Simple Trick 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, and we are here to make
0:07.3	your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.9	Let me know if any of these sound familiar to you. Procrastination. Decision avoidance. Impulsivity.
0:39.5	Exhaustion. Brain fog. Irritability. Overwhelmed. Should I continue? Or are we all on the same page here? This reminded me of the office episode when Dwight is listing off the symptoms of marijuana use and he's like saying it to Kevin, he's like, let me know if any of this sounds familiar.
0:44.7	Now, most likely, this probably sounds like you right now because it's that busy season for most of us.
0:45.8	A lot of these signs mean you might be experiencing decision fatigue.
0:51.2	So we are dedicating this episode to addressing decision fatigue with some easy
0:55.6	strategies you can use to defog your brain. But first, we're going to hear a TSAH from Megan.
1:01.8	Megan says, my TSAH in teaching is definitely classroom management incentives. I am constantly
1:08.9	having to change things up and try new things because it's not working for my students.
1:13.8	I want non-monetary incentives and my school does not allow any edible items.
1:19.9	It's super frustrating because food is a wonderful motivator for my students who often don't have enough food at home.
1:27.3	Plus, my class is so chatty.
1:30.6	Okay. So off the top of my head, some of my favorite free but also non-food-related incentives
1:37.9	include Stinky Feet Day. So that's where my students would get to take off their shoes in class
1:43.9	and who doesn't love to walk around in socks?
1:46.5	Seriously.
1:47.2	Right.
1:48.5	Pajama days, if that's allowed.
1:50.5	I know one of the schools I taught at, we had like a consistent attire program.
1:54.4	So it wasn't really always an option.
1:56.2	But allowing them to wear a hat, allowing them to choose their seat for the day, allowing them to
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