S5EP09 Which aspects of teaching can you eliminate to free up more time? (Taylor's coaching call)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 2 April 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm going to let you listen in on a coaching call I did with a 9th and 10th grade ELA teacher named Taylor. Like all the teachers I'm conducting these free coaching calls with, Taylor completed a year in the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club and has made really strong progress in work/life balance. Before joining the club, she worked around 80 hours a week, and she's not working around 55-60, for a net savings of 20-25 hours a week. So she's obviously doing a lot of things right when it comes focusing on what's most important and letting go of the rest.
However, Taylor is now committed to being a class advisor, and that's causing her to work a lot of additional hours. As we talk, it becomes clear that she's going to have to eliminate some things from her schedule.
But she's getting stuck on figuring out what she can realistically say no to when it comes to grading, which is what takes up the majority of her time. And, she's having a hard time saying no to students when they ask her to do extra things for them.
Listen in as I talk with Taylor about how to figure out what can realistically be eliminated from a teacher's workload in order to free up more time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 episode 9 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.0 | 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 the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to be doing a coaching call with a teacher named Taylor and exploring |
| 0:20.3 | which aspects of teaching you can eliminate to free up more time. |
| 0:25.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, links to recommended resources, |
| 0:30.0 | and to share your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:32.0 | This podcast episode is sponsored by the |
| 0:34.4 | teacher toolkit.com a free website with over 60 teaching tools designed to help |
| 0:39.8 | make your instruction engaging and meaningful. For each strategy you'll find step-by-step instructions, |
| 0:45.0 | editable templates, and even video footage from your classrooms |
| 0:49.0 | to show you the strategy in action. |
| 0:51.0 | To check out these free tools and the growing collection of affordable online |
| 0:54.4 | courses, visit the Teacher Toolkit.com. |
| 0:58.2 | So what you're about to hear is a new format that I'm using for the podcast now every couple of |
| 1:02.4 | episodes, which is a coaching call. |
| 1:05.6 | This is basically instructional coaching and life coaching kind of blended all together, where |
| 1:10.8 | I'm answering teachers specific questions about productivity and |
| 1:14.0 | balance and managing it all. |
| 1:16.6 | And today I'm going to let you listen in on a coaching call that I did with a ninth and |
| 1:20.1 | 10th grade ELA teacher who's named Taylor. Now like all the teachers that I'm |
| 1:24.7 | conducting these free coaching calls with Taylor completed a year in the 40-hour |
| 1:29.1 | teacher work week club and she's made some really strong progress in work life balance. |
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