keep up-to-date on mail
Set up a time for checking email and
your school mailbox
Delete unwanted email
Unsubsribe to email lists you don't use
Use labels and folders for organizing
email
Let parents and students know when
you're available via email and when
you're not. Discuss appropriate
response times
Clean out your school mailbox so that
important information doesn't get
buried
TIME
MANAGEMENT
TIPS FOR NEW
TEACHERS
find your best time to
work outside of class
time
Willing to work through lunch?
Before or after school?
Take home?
Use prep time wisely
PRIORITIZE
Determine what's urgent, important, or
a combination of the two and start
there or....
If you can do it in two minutes, do it
and build on that sense of
accomplishment
SET TIMERS
Allot time for a task and stick to it.
Set timers and alerts, for example a
buzz five minutes before a class or
lesson should end to allow time for
exit tickets, wrap-ups, clean-up, etc.
CREATE ROUTINES early
and stick to them
Make routines a habit for yourself and
students
don't try to do
everything at once
Divide up tasks, for example grade five
projects each day as opposed to all
thirty at once
Clear your workspace so that you can
focus on the task at hand
Stagger your planning so that you're
not swamped with multiple
assignments to grade at once
be okay with saying
"no"
New teachers often feel like they have
to agree to all requests to coach,
advise, etc.
It's okay to say "no" and focus on your
teaching and your personal life
plan, plan, plan!
Plan your lessons but also plan your
prep time, grading schedule, etc.
Find a method that works for you!
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