EP179 Out the door by 4: Streamlining Friday afternoon planning (Rebecca's coaching call)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this coaching call, a 25-year veteran teacher explores why it's taking her so long to get out the door on Friday afternoons when she's trying to plan for the following week. Rebecca shares, "I'm a really good teacher, but with as long as I take to plan lessons, I should be one of the best in the world!"
Together, we explore ways to streamline her planning process so she's spending less time fitting the pieces together and hunting for good activities. We also examine her Friday afternoon routines to look for ways she might be wasting time, and try to find tasks she can move to other time periods to allow her to start her weekend at a decent hour.
Rebecca's coaching call ends with 3 actionable takeaways, one for reducing the time spent planning lessons, one for prioritizing coworker conversations without staying late, and one for re-allocating work hours to make sure she's out the door by 4 on Fridays.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 179 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:07.2 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:12.4 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.7 | Today you'll get to listen in on a coaching call with a teacher named Rebecca who wants to uncover why it takes her so long to get out the door on |
| 0:25.2 | Fridays when she's trying to plan the next week ahead. Visit truth for |
| 0:29.8 | teachers.com to get the transcript or find our new Truth for Teachers podcast community on |
| 0:35.0 | Facebook. You can share your thoughts on the show there and reflect with other |
| 0:38.7 | listeners in our private group. This episode is sponsored by ViewSonic Education. |
| 0:45.0 | They're the creator of View Board, an interactive whiteboard for the classroom, |
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| 1:16.0 | So today's episode is a coaching call |
| 1:18.0 | with a seventh grade honors and regular |
| 1:21.0 | ELA teacher named Rebecca. |
| 1:23.8 | So Rebecca is a graduate of the 40-hour teacher work week club |
| 1:27.2 | and she has put a lot of strategies in place |
| 1:29.5 | to streamline her workload and focus on what really matters in her instruction. |
| 1:34.0 | And she's been teaching for 25 years, so she has a lot of expertise. |
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