Life & Well Being Time Management as a Teacher
By Promila
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Time management is a set of common-sense skills that helps to use time productively. The profession of teaching is one of the areas where time management plays a vital role. It helps in prioritizing the work so that one can start the day on the basis of the importance of the tasks. The skill of time management in the classroom optimizes learning opportunities for students. Listing of daily tasks down, lesson planning, being smart with technology tools, all come under time management. It allows a teacher to accomplish more in a shorter period of time. It leads to more free time which lets a teacher take advantage of learning opportunities, lower the stress of workload, and helps in focusing which leads to more career success. Each benefit of time management improves another aspect of a teacher’s life.

Using the time in the most effective way possible determines which things are important and which can be dropped. It helps in controlling the distractions that waste time and provides more quality time to relax and enjoy life. “Everyone has the same 24 hours”. Teaching is a profession where the tasks end not even one retires. Teachers do not work for a fixed time period. Most of them arrive early, stay late, takes paper home to greed, and prepare lectures and assignments on the days of. Time management helps them accomplish more with fewer efforts because one does not lose momentum and good time management is not just about getting about all our work done. If we are good at managing our time, we can make sure that we use our leisure time as well as possible too. It also means having ourselves enough time to relax and spend time with our loved ones. And so, for the teachers out there here are my top ten time-management tips that I’ve found incredibly helpful. Being a teacher everyone must introspect, and try to shoot questions for the reasons to do hard work in a syntactical way.

Hitherto teachers are the sole representative of buttressing the future of children without getting the same attention and respect. The reason for not getting results could be their ill-nurtured behavior towards the students and the time management. Teachers must strike scrutiny over the daily basis tasks and how they are helping themselves to attain it with utmost sincerity. Their motives should be specific, precise, and chronological. Although it shall take some time, to go beyond the limits and to scale the summit they must spend their time by organizing the days, which shall later help them to protract the symmetry and to avoid any work which goes futile. In every organization, we find the people or so-called sovereigns but we need to understand which work is important and which can be delayed. Instead of accepting and giving our consent for every work should be declined and that must procure the metamorphosis in time management. Teachers should be acquainted with the precise and coherent lesson plan so that they can manage their time by utilizing it with abject accuracy and much-needed follow-ups. We can commence our day by focusing on a short goal for the day or focusing on three to four things that could surely be achieved.

We must conquer all the work with aplomb and self-reliance. There are copious ways to reduce the time which goes in futile due to grade marking or preparing for the assignments, for sure it’s vital for a teacher that they can be cognizant about the students by giving them the marks they deserve and to galvanize them to attain their dreams. The reason the teachers are encountering problems every day is that they are not abreast with the technology and the high-tech tools which can for sure help them to manage their time. Teachers must focus on the child-centric work instead of checking Facebook updates or using any other social media to rejuvenate themselves, which limpidly hinders their work.

Teachers must relax, meditate and they must have a vigil over themselves so that they can start every day with the same zest and galvanize students with the desired hortatory gesture.

A quote by Stephen R. Covey, the author of the famous time management matrix,’ describes time management as-
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”

About the author

Ms. Promila is a science educator in India since 1996. All views expressed are personal.