Welcome to season 2 episode 8 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth

into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.

Today I'm going to share some tips to help you work a 40 hour week as a teacher,

shaving 10 or more hours from your work week.

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Whenever I mention a 40 hour work week for

teachers people tend to have one of two objections. Either they think it's

not possible or they think it's not aspirational that you can't do a good job in 40 hours

so you shouldn't even attempt to try that as a teacher.

I believe that not only is a 40 hour work week possible for teachers but that most teachers

can do an excellent job as an educator working those hours. I believe that because I lived it during my 11 years

in the classroom. Even as a new teacher I would say that probably around 90% of the time I worked a 40 hour week.

And I maintain that schedule no matter what or where I've taught.

I've taught in seven different schools, I've taught three different grades, I've taught in two different states, three different districts.

I managed to keep my work hours to a reasonable level that really worked for my life in all of those different teaching contacts.

My friends and my colleagues and really anyone who was paying attention can attest that I

left the building about an hour after the kids did every afternoon and I took very little work home. But I never really

talked about it until after I left the classroom and became an instructional coach because

telling people about how few hours you work is really not a smart idea most of the time.

So many people equate hours worked with results and they just seem to believe that like staying at school until dinner time every night doing who knows what somehow means that students are going to be learning more.

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