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Five Hours Less: Actionable Ways to Manage your Workload as a Teacher

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Colorado Convention Center, 102/4/6

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Jennifer Manly
Speaker + Consultant
The Strategic Classroom
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Jen Manly is a current college instructor, former high school and middle school computer science teacher, middle and high school curriculum developer, and served as a Project Lead the Way Master Teacher. She is a skilled facilitator and has presented to thousands of educators at the local, state, and national level. She is a Certified Agile Leader K–12 Trainer, coauthor of the Agile Educator Guide, and a 2018 ITEEA Teacher Excellence awardee. She received a 2021 CS Teaching Excellence Honorable Mention and served as a curriculum writer for Code.org's AP CS A curriculum.

Session description

Explore three keys to navigating the unique challenges of teaching to maximize effectiveness and efficiency: Mastering your schedule, setting boundaries, and creating systems for both students and yourself. With a focus on actionable strategies, you'll learn to streamline class processes and workload to make time for what's most important.

Purpose & objective

Objectives:
Identify strategies for setting boundaries during the school year for educators
Explore systems to streamline work and improve efficiency
Create personalized systems for teachers and students to maximize efficiency
Conduct a time audit and personalize a work schedule that prioritizes the most important work

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Outline

Agenda:
Introduction + Using the Notecatcher (5 min)
Setting Boundaries: Email best practices, the 24 hour rule, other ways to set boundaries on your time (10 min)
Systems to Streamline Work + Improve Efficiency: Redefining productivity, The Eisenhower Matrix, Planning your daily work, Pomodoro technique, How to create a classroom system to save time, Example system: Managing redos (15 min)
Mastering your Schedule: Conducting a time audit, Mapping out your weekly schedule, Batching work (15 min)
Time Saving Hacks: Building in repetition, Creating and not wasting time (7 min)
Making Actionable Commitments (3 min)
Q+A (5 min)

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Supporting research

https://www.edutopia.org/article/time-management-tips-teachers
https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/getting-serious-about-teacher-burnout
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-06-15-it-s-time-to-take-teacher-burnout-seriously-here-s-how

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Session specifications

Topic:
Professional learning
Grade level:
PK-12
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Principals/head teachers, Teachers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty
Attendee devices:
Devices useful
Attendee device specification:
Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
ISTE Standards:
For Educators:
Learner
  • Pursue professional interests by creating and actively participating in local and global learning networks.

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