Managing Workload
Published on 30. April 2009
128 pages
978-1-907078-21-7 (ISBN)
Description
Teaching is a challenging and rewarding profession. If there's a downside, it's the workload: not properly managed it can lead to stress and related problems. If you feel you could be using time better - working less and enjoying life more - then this book offers some useful tips, tools and strategies for work-life balancing. Sections on stress, attitudes and habits, time management and looking after yourself lead to a helpful workload evaluation tool at the end of the book. Drawing on the experiences of real teachers in real schools, you sense that Will Thomas understands the pressures and challenges peculiar to the job and his common sense approach is welcome.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Alresford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 black & white illustrations
File size
5,24 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-907078-21-7 (9781907078217)
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright Notice
- Enjoy the read!
- Title Page
- Publisher
- Contents
- Introduction
- Work-Life Balance
- What is it costing you?
- What is work-life balance?
- The good news
- Managing workload - 5 steps
- Evaluating your life
- The work-life focus tool
- Satisfaction profile
- Analysing your satisfaction
- More great news
- Something to think about
- The future
- Preferred futures
- The power of goals
- Goal-setting
- SMART goals
- Your key to success
- Parkinson's law
- The working envelope
- Envelope case study
- Making the envelope
- Defining your envelope
- Working envelope grid
- The longer view
- Balancing
- Winning Attitudes
- What gets in the way of balance?
- Inappropriate prioritisation
- Prioritising - strategies
- Procrastination
- Procrastination - strategies
- Failure to delegate
- Delegating - strategies
- Limiting beliefs
- Limiting beliefs - strategies
- Interaction behaviours
- Passive behaviour
- Aggressive behaviour
- Assertive behaviour
- When to be assertive
- Saying yes when you should say no
- More about assertiveness
- Passive-aggressive behaviour
- Interaction behaviours - strategies
- Great Habits
- 'To do' lists don't work
- Pure actions thinking 1
- Pure actions thinking 2
- PAT and planning
- PAT and weekly review
- PAT and strategic planning
- Alternative planning approaches
- A weekly planning grid:
- Planning each day
- Flexibility
- Holiday working
- Staying organised - a case study
- Moving on
- Taming Time
- A personal story
- Tips and strategies
- Learning and teaching
- Sharing the workload
- Marking and feedback
- Freeing up teachers with EASE
- Other people's problems
- Coaching and mentoring
- Coaching others
- Parents
- 7 steps with difficult parents
- Know your support staff
- Managing interruptions
- Telephone calls
- Paperwork and e-work
- Rule 1 - a tidy desk
- Rule 2 - 'a place for everything.'
- Rule 3 - be ruthless with paper
- Rule 4 - treat emails as you would paper
- The result
- The learning workspace
- The nomadic teacher
- Looking After Yourself
- Pressure and stress
- Stress hormones
- The mechanism of stress
- Healthy body, healthy mind
- Maintaining resilience
- Your long-term health
- Refuel
- Refuel: lousy eating - lousy feelings
- Refuel
- Exercise
- Stop
- Take stock
- Self-evaluation Framework
- Self-evaluation Framework
- Work-life balance
- Winning attitudes
- Great habits
- Taming time
- Looking after yourself
- Interpretation
- Further Information
- About the author
- Order Form
- Title Listings
