EP240 The big 5 tips for productivity to reduce overwhelm (with Amy Stohs)

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

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🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

There are 5 overarching principles that can help you streamline and simplify your workload so that you feel less overwhelmed.

I call these principles "The Big 5 Tips for Teacher Productivity", and I've woven them all throughout the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek program (both the Full Year version that kicks off each summer as well as the self-paced Fast Track version, which you can begin any time).

I've invited Amy Stohs, a member of the 40 Hour team, to share what the "Big 5" looks like in her daily teaching practice, and I love her unique spin on these time-tested ideas:

Eliminate unintentional breaks
Figure out the main thing and do it first
Work ahead by batching and avoid multi-tasking unless the work is mindless.
Relax any of your standards that create unnecessary work to a level that no one else will notice but you.
Use scheduling to create boundaries around your time.

Amy shares specific, actionable steps she's taken for each of these principles to help her regain control of her time and get more done with less effort.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 240 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host Angela Watson
0:06.3	and I'm here to speak life, encouragement and truth into the minds and hearts of educators
0:12.1	and get you energized for the week ahead. Today I'm talking with Amy Stowe's about what
0:16.9	the big five tips for teacher productivity have looked like in her daily classroom practice.
0:23.1	Visit truthforteachers.com to get the transcript and check out our new Truth for Teachers writer
0:27.8	collective, which Amy is a part of. Teachers, if you're looking for engaging project
0:33.4	based lessons for students in K-12, I encourage you to take a look at the PBL tools and resources
0:39.4	on defined learning. Defined learning provides an online library of engaging real world projects,
0:46.2	including inspiring career-focused videos, research resources and more to help you create
0:52.6	deeper learning opportunities for your students. Listeners of this podcast can get free 60-day
0:59.1	access to all of defined learning's PBL resources. Just go to definedlearning.com forward slash truth.
1:07.9	That's defined learning.com forward slash truth. So this school year has turned out to be
1:15.6	really unprecedented in its challenges. If your co-workers are burning out and overwhelmed and
1:21.5	your administrators feel helpless to do anything about it, let them know about the 40-hour
1:26.6	leadership program. It's a new offshoot of my 40-hour teacher work week program. It's designed
1:32.2	to create change at the school level. It will help everyone in the building stay focused on what
1:37.7	really makes a difference for kids and streamline or eliminate the rest. 40-hour leadership can be
1:43.6	joined at any time. It's an entirely self-paced program for administrators. It only requires an
1:50.2	upfront time investment of around 8-10 hours for reimagining systems and simplifying processes
1:57.0	that will save everyone in the building time and energy every single day. We can work with your
2:02.8	school to acquire grant funding and use professional development money to cover the cost via
2:08.2	purchase order and we offer additional consulting packages for personalized coaching and support.
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