Welcome to Season 3, episode 10 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

the mind and heart of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. Today I'm

going to share some thoughts on how to create more class time for instruction.

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So every teacher needs more class time, right?

Every year it seems like there's more and more content that needs to be covered

and less time to teach it in.

Excessive testing and all the other distractions really just suck away the time that we have for

instructing students. Sometimes it feels like we test them but we don't even have

enough time to teach them, right? Fortunately there are some easy ways that you can

create more time for teaching.

There are lots of things happening in our classrooms that either waste time or just make

lessons take longer than they need to.

If you struggle with lesson planning because you just don't have time to

teach everything you're supposed to, these easy tips and productivity hacks will help you maximize

every moment with students. I'm going to run through 10 ideas for eliminating

class time wasters and I'll go through them pretty quickly. Then in the blog

post for the dot com slash S3 Epp10.

That's for season 3 up 10.

So the first tip is to look for unnecessary tasks

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