Welcome to Season 2, episode 9 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 for prioritizing your teaching tasks when everything seems like it's urgent.

Visit truth for teachers.com to read the blog post, get links to recommended resources

and to share your thoughts on the show. So in last week's episode I

debunked the myth that there's a correlation between hours worked as a

teacher and the results you get.

And I shared that it's not only possible to work a 40-hour week as a teacher, but to be an

outstanding teacher while still having a personal life.

All of that is possible in 40 hours.

The foundation of using your time effectively and being efficient is knowing how to

prioritize your task.

So I wanted to dig a little deeper into that topic this week.

I want you to remember that you can't do it all

and everything is not equally important. When your job starts to feel

completely overwhelming and it seems like you could work 24 hours a day and still not

be done with everything, chances are good that you've either lost

sight of your priorities or you never really set them to begin with. You've allowed so many tasks

to pile up on your plate that they all seem equally

important and it feels like the world will just come crashing down if you don't

complete all the tasks right now perfectly. If you're not sure whether a task is really important, ask

yourself what would happen if I didn't do this now? For example, what would the consequence be for not rewriting every

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