S5EP15 Season 5 Wrap Up: Use your summer to tackle time-wasting practices and rethink what's necessary
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The episode you're about to hear is a free coaching call I conducted with a graduate of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club. It's a combination of instructional coaching and life coaching all sort of rolled into one, where I'm answering teachers' specific questions about productivity and balance and managing it all.
This particular call is a teacher named Claire who teaches special education. She works with kids in grades K-6 and actually splits her time between 2 schools, so she's at one school with one group of kids in the morning and another in the afternoon.
Claire's initial question is about how to use her summer to get ahead for fall when she doesn't know the needs of the students in her classroom. Her caseload can change a lot from year to year and that makes it difficult to plan ahead. So we talk through some systems she and any teacher can create during the summer that will make the following school year easier to manage. We talk about getting digital files organized, getting procedures in place, and so on.
I then challenge Claire to figure out 2-3 of her biggest time-wasters and use her summer to figure out a better way. It's very hard to find the time and mental bandwidth to take a step back during the school year and analyze systems, so summer is really perfect for that. And when she told me what her biggest time suck is, when she talked about collecting data on student progress and grading their writing, she had a really big aha moment that I think is going to resonate with you in a powerful way, too.
Claire and I dug really deeply into how to analyze if something really has to be done, if the things we perceive as mandated are in fact requirements, and analyze teaching practices through the lens of whether they're actually effective for kids rather than if they're the way they've always been done, and they way everyone else does them. I love that moment in our conversation and I can't wait to share it with you.
At the end of the call, I mention a free on-demand video series I've created to help you plan out how to use your summer. You can sign up for that here:
http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/secrets
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5, episode 15 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 |
| 0:12.1 | the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized. encouragement and |
| 0:14.0 | get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.0 | Today I'm going to be doing a coaching call |
| 0:18.0 | with a teacher named Claire |
| 0:19.5 | and exploring how to use your summer to tackle major time wasters and rethink what's really |
| 0:25.2 | necessary. Visit truth for teachers.com to get the show notes and |
| 0:29.3 | written highlights as well as links to recommended resources or to share your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:34.9 | So this episode is going to be the final one for season 5 of Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:39.7 | We are wrapping up this week and preparing you for summer break. I want to help you make this |
| 0:45.6 | your most productive and also your most relaxing summer yet. Those two things |
| 0:50.6 | really aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, productivity and rest are actually interdependent. |
| 0:55.8 | So I'm going to help you think through some of these productivity issues in this episode. |
| 1:00.3 | And then, don't worry, you won't be on your own until season six begins in August. |
| 1:04.4 | I'll be back with a bonus extended episode in between seasons like I normally do. |
| 1:09.2 | That's going to be probably in late June and in this bonus episode I'm going to teach you some |
| 1:14.5 | awesome productivity habits and share more about how you can join the 40-hour |
| 1:19.1 | teacher work week club. The club is going to be open to new members from June 28th until July 7th. |
| 1:25.0 | Now make sure you stay tuned until the end of this episode because I have another |
| 1:30.3 | resource that's going to help you plan out your summer. It's a totally |
| 1:34.2 | free on-demand video series and I'm going to share at the end where you go to get it. |
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