This course will provide you with specific strategies to effectively streamline your daily tasks and optimize your planning time.
In this course, you will learn about all the diverse responsibilities you are required to complete during your planning time and how to analyze areas for improvement and efficiency. You will learn specific time management strategies for teachers and implement tools that can help you streamline your planning. You will learn about team collaboration and how to streamline meetings as well. The course comes with a downloadable PDF of the content and a planning organizer to help you ensure your efficient planning time.
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 10 or later.
- Mac: macOS 12 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Microsoft Word Online
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
- Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
- Editing of a Microsoft Word document is required in this course. You may use a free version of Microsoft Word Online, or Google Docs if you do not have Microsoft Office installed on your computer. Model Teaching can provide support for this.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
Productive Planning Processes Course Content
The video and article will provide you with insights and strategies to streamline your planning time so that you can tackle extra tasks efficiently. You will learn several time-saving strategies you can begin to utilize and will also plan for how to make the most of any collaboration time during your planning periods. The course also includes some "Reflect or Discuss" prompts to help you connect with the course content and ends with a "Try This Task" to guide you explicitly on how you might implement the ideas into the classroom.
What you will learn
- Identify the wide variety of tasks you are responsible for during your planning time
- Analyze several time-saving tips and tools for parent emails, grading, meetings, and other tasks
- Evaluate how to plan for productive team collaboration time
How you will benefit
- You will be less stressed and overwhelmed with all your daily tasks
- Your planning time will become more streamlined, and you will have more time in the day to devote to more important aspects of your teaching
- Your students will benefit because you can prioritize instructionally focused tasks once you have streamlined most of your other responsibilities
Self-Study