Into the Driver's Seat

Do you manage your time or does time manage you? The lines between work and home life have blurred over the past year of remote working conditions for many educators. The feeling of always having something to do or an email to answer can be hard to turn off. Cognitive overload is real for educators.

But honing executive functioning skills will make it easier to find balance between work and life. Here are five ways to get started.

Via John Evans

Try Barb Blackburn's 7 strategies to create the balance you need to thrive as a teacher. First up: advocate for what you need. Get serious about managing time.

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Dennis Swender

While working online may save us a lot of time, it's caused chaos in terms of managing all of our tasks. Thankfully, there are apps for that. We've rounded up five of the best tools to help you get organized.

Via Daniel Watson, Cheryl Turner

55 Valuable Tips to Save Time

Via Gust MEES, Dr. Caroline B. Laurens

For most K-12 teachers, a standard teaching day is roughly 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.—but that's just time spent inside the classroom. Add in all the additional work—grading, lesson planning, scheduling, conferences, and so on—and teachers end up looking at 12-16 hours of work per day. Google's suit

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

While working online may save us a lot of time, it's caused chaos in terms of managing all of our tasks. Thankfully, there are apps for that. We've rounded up five of the best tools to help you get organized.

Via Daniel Watson, Sharon Murdoch

Guest Post: Time Keeps on Slipping (So, use it productively)!

Paying enough effort and time is a key to success. However, sometimes the effort and time are not enough to get what you want. The matter is that we get the desired result when we properly use all the resources available. In this lies the real effectiveness that can help you to achieve what you want.

There are thousands of examples when people have several spare hours per day for accomplishing their goals but they never get what they want. And there are thousands of examples when people who have almost no free time get everything they want: they combine work and study, family and business, travel and full-time job. Why does this happen? In fact, the answer to this question lies in personal productivity and ability to manage time properly.

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/time-the-most-important-factor-neglected-in-education/

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Time+Management

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Productivity

 

Via Gust MEES, Dennis Swender