Teacher Productivity
Teacher productivity is valued whether you are a classroom teacher or working on your teacher side hustle. In order to be productive with the limited time at your disposal, consider what systems you have in place.
- Do you have workflows?
- Are you utilizing templates?
- How do you organize tasks?
- How much time are you planning out your day?
- Are you looking regularly at your list of tasks?
- Do you have a long “to-do” list?
Teacher Planning Productivity
Let’s start with being productive in the classroom. Over the past 7-10 years, I have spent A LOT of hours planning and creating systems so that I am working close to contract hours. I’ve stopped taking work home. Usually the only time I work at home is during report card writing season (3 times a year).
If you are a new teacher, expect to be working 60-80 hours a week, depending on training, availability of resources, support, etc. I think it would be unrealistic to tell new teachers that they can work 40 hours a week, especially if they are required to write a lot of units, assessment, etc.
I made this video a while back as I am asked how I get all my work done. This takes time, but here are a couple suggestions for you.
Resources Mentioned:
Time Block Google Spreadsheet
Teacher Productivity for Your Side Hustle
This is huge! As someone who has built my business with systems and without them, YOU NEED A SYSTEM! I cannot imagine trying to build this bigger without one. I will be making a blog post shortly but over 6-8 months as my business began to grow, I didn’t have a system in place to help me grow it. Problems ensues that I am still fixing.
Take time to look at how you are organizing everything, and I mean EVERYTHING! It doesn’t matter whether you have a paper or digital planner (I have 2 paper planners, for now), but procedures, templates, systems need to be able to handle growth. Will your current set of systems handle the growth? Over the next month (while I am on summer break), I will add to this page some suggestions for you. Here are a couple digital to take a look at.
