teacher leadership styles through time management
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Leadership Styles through TIME MANAGEMENT Expertise by Dheeraj Mehrotra. A must for all educators. Learn how to roll out interest in your classrooms.TRANSCRIPT
Leadership Styles for
Teachers
THROUGH THE INTEGRATION OF TIME MANAGEMENT
SKILLS
Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotrawww.sixsigmaineducation.com
As teachers, we have accepted a huge
responsibility- the education, nurturing, safety and welfare
of young people. Parents trust us, for six hours per day, with their children. There is
no greater
responsibility.
Our schedules are highly structured, not unlike the assembly line worker who must stop and
start at the whistle. But in our case, we're not assembling inanimate parts, we're working with enthusiastic, vulnerable, impressionable children. We are truly in the trenches all day.
As a teacher, you are the chief executive officer, chairman of
the board and president of your
own corporation of thirty employees. Your classroom is corporate headquarters and
your product is the education of your students.
Your time is booked every day. There is no
leeway in altering a class schedule,
so you must work within the very limited planning periods.
An important component of your job is to be available for students and parents beyond the
actual classroom sessions.
Yes,
kindness! Just because we
are in control and expect
appropriate behavior, does not mean that
teachers need to be cold or distant.
One very effective method for teachers to
save time is to group activities
as much as possible. With this process you can use to maximize those all-too-short blocks of time so that you can lessen the amount of work you drag home every evening.
TelephoneSet aside a time when you will make and
return non-urgent phone calls. It might be fifteen minutes in
the morning and another fifteen minutes in the afternoon. Work toward keeping routine calls within that block.
EmailElectronic messages can easily dominate your day. Turn off the sound or alert that advises
you of incoming messages. Just as with
telephone calls, set a block of time each day when you focus on just your email.
As teachers we need to
strive for positive relationships
with our students--one that has clear
expectations, but is based on mutual
respect, communication,
and kindness.
DiscussionsIf you confer several times a day with
certain colleagues,
set up a folder and collect items during the day so that you can cover all points during just one meeting. This limits interruptions for both of you. Encourage others to have a folder for you also
Grape wine stories
ReadingFor articles and publications
(circulars/ CCE Registers) that do not have an action date, keep them together and schedule time on your calendar to catch up on the reading. This reading block can include both paper and electronic information.
FilingEven if you have a terrific filing system and you know where to put all your reference papers, do not stop and file each individual item as it comes in. Wait until you have a folder of papers, and
then note on your calendar when you will file.
It will take practice to develop the habit of grouping your activities in order to limit multitasking, but the resulting increase in productivity is worth the effort.
Being friendly, disciplined by time and having a good rapport with students can go a long way towards creating
a positive classroom environment.
Write things down instead of keeping
them in your
head and
Manage Time.
Our role as a leader has much more importance that we sometimes realize in the overall classroom climate.
As a leader, we must guide, shape, teach, motivate, correct, direct, and encourage our
students!
Define your "collection points" and keep them to a
minimum – These are all the places where you get new information or
write things down. (for example, email, voicemail,
sticky notes, to-do list, etc.)
Realize that you can't do
EVERYTHING, so don't even try;
instead focus on a few key things that
will give you the most value and
satisfaction.
. Approach your job as a business manager and the critics outside of school will begin to understand that you face the same problems and
dilemmas that they face in their world.
You are in charge of more people, in a more volatile environment, with more supervisors (parents and
administration), than 95% of the managers in the world! This link to business is
unmistakable
Your classroom is your business.
Let parents and students know that you know how to run your business and that your business is successful!
Your first two hours each day are often your most productive. Instead
of wasting them by checking email or with
trivial busywork, use them for your most valuable,
most important, highest-leverage assignments/
lesson planning.
As you plan and structure your day and week, try to consolidate your time and intentionally create blocks of uninterrupted
time that you can use for your most important
projects.
Use specific times for processing – It's much better to have predefined times for processing your stuff (like email, notes, etc.) rather
than just doing it whenever new stuff arrives. Setting
up 2, 3 or even 4 processing times per day
works well for most people.
A week is a natural time period for effective planning because it's short enough to make realistic plans and long
enough to balance short-term urgency with long-term
importance. If you are not doing it already, think about planning your entire week
ahead of time.
Avoid multitasking and try to focus on a single project for a block of time. You'll
get much more done when you are able to work
this way.
Avoid multitasking and try to focus on a single project for a block of time. You'll get much more done when you are able to
work this way.
Remember that being busy and active is not
the same as being productive. Focus on projects and activities
that will move your closer to your goals.
If you can work on a single project for a
block of time, then only look at tasks related to that project, don't allow
tasks from other projects to distract you.
Interruptions and distractions
are two of the biggest time wasters in our modern society. Learn to handle
them effectively and then work proactively to reduce
them.
Remember Parkinson's law... "Work tends to expand so as to fill the time available for its
completion." Figure out a good enough
result for your project so you can decide when you are
done and can move to something else.
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