229. Couch Chronicles: 5 Ways to Prepare for the End of the School Year From Your Couch!

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A new alliteration means a new Teaching to the TOP series! Welcome to the Couch Chronicles where we give you actionable steps you can make to be productive right from the comfort of your own couch. In the first of this series we want to tackle the overwhelm of the end of the school year. This is one of the busiest times of the year. You’ve got state testing, assessments, portfolios, conferences, field tips… the list goes on and on. But wouldn’t it be nice (cue the song from 50 first dates) to get a little ahead so that each day didn’t feel like you were drowning in to-dos? Well, this episode is going to share how to make that happen! In this episode we share the following ways you can prepare for the end of the year: 1. Create your end of the year checklist 2. Clean out your Google Drive 3. Clean out your email 4. Clean out your LMS 5. Create any EOY materials (letter templates, event reminders, etc.) Don’t forget to check out the NEW 2024-2025 Digital Planners that are in our store! You can visit our store www.teachingonthedouble.com/store to grab your planner now and try out these new strategies. LINKS: 124. Plan With Us: How to Conquer the End of the School Year 125. TOP Tips for Packing Up Your Classroom 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.
0:12.0	So we've got a new series thanks to Michelle's incredible talent for alliteration. In this series, we are sharing simple, proactive steps that you can take from your couch to help
0:23.3	manage your to-does and your stress.
0:26.1	But first, we're going to hear a time-sucking hurdle from Madison.
0:29.9	Madison says, hi, ladies, longtime follower of your podcast.
0:33.9	I have learned so much from your episodes and put so many things into my practice
0:38.8	in my classroom and life in general too. My favorite episode was the one where you discuss the
0:44.2	plastic and glass balls. My TSA is parent-teacher interviews. At my school, we run them over two
0:51.4	nights, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. after teaching all day. I am mentally drained as well.
0:56.8	We are only given 10 minutes to discuss with the parents any academic and behavioral issues,
1:02.4	celebrations, positives, friendships, and then questions. Do you have any tips or tricks to keep on time
1:08.9	and on track for the parent-teacher interviews. Thank you.
1:13.1	So I'm assuming that you are not in North America because of the way that we spelled practice
1:17.5	favorite and behavioral, which I absolutely love. So Madison, yes, we do have some tips. And I think
1:25.6	this is a really great episode for it because the tips that
1:28.4	I'm going to give you are from your couch. So you can literally do them ahead of time to be proactive
1:33.4	so that you're not feeling stressed during that day. So the biggest one that I would give you
1:37.4	is to come up with some form of a template where you can go ahead and write down all of the celebrations,
1:46.1	the issues, the friendships, and then maybe even have an area where parents can write
1:51.2	questions that they can send to you in advance. So here's how this would work. You would create
1:57.1	your form and then you would fill it in with all of the information that you are
2:01.2	planning to share with families. And then you would send that to them and they could return it back
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