Teaching to the TOP

123.Testing Coping Strategies for Teachers

Raise your hand if any of these statements are true for you: 
You're waking up later in the mornings.
You find yourself slacking on your normal routines.
You are exhausted in the afternoons. 
You’d rather be spending time in the sunshine than cooped up indoors. 
This time of year is always filled with dreaded testing! Whether it’s standardized testing or end of the year assessments, your students are drained and honestly, so are you! We are going to share some coping strategies you can use to handle the stress, overwhelm, change of routine, and just plain boredom teachers all experience during testing!
In this episode you will hear:
Be proactive by gathering materials and organizing these in advance. 
Try and define some form of consistency for yourself and for your students. 
Develop a new schedule and have this displayed in an area where you can reference this.
Utilize the down time and be proactive for finalizing end of the year tasks. 
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122. How to Overcome Your Productivity Mistakes

WOW! We’ve accomplished an entire month dissecting productivity and how we can build effective habits to help us increase our overall productivity.  As a reminder of all the juicy episodes we’ve shared so far this month we are sharing a small snapshot of the episode below:
Episode 119. Learn From Our Mistakes: Our BIGGEST Productivity Struggles
Episode 120. Real Talk and Tough Love: Let’s Chat About Our Productivity
Episode 121. Productivity Habits Every Teacher Should Build
But we know that even with all the information we have shared on productivity it can still be challenging to figure out why you are still feeling overwhelmed and stressed. In this episode we are sharing some common productivity mistakes that you might be making and the simple solutions to help fix them. 
In this episode we will share:
How to make your habits obvious to increase productivity and stick to your goals. 
How creating separate to-do lists will help keep you focused for the day versus hopping from one task to another. 
How to make your tasks attractive so that you can stop making excuses and get excited about getting your to-dos finished
Why finding the perfect accountability buddy is important!
How you can start making tasks easier for you to get the biggest bang for your buck!
Why celebrating your successes is important for continuing your productivity. 
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121. Productivity Habits Every Teacher Should Build

Have many times have you told yourself that you want to become more productive? It may be fair to say that we have all experienced times like this. However, it is important to note that being a productive person looks very different for each of us. 
In this episode we are going to look at some of the key habits for being productive in our careers and our lives. Each of the habits that we have created will build on one another and create a stacking that will prepare you to be more productive. 
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120. Real Talk and Tough Love: Let’s Chat About Our Productivity

This week we have a relaxed and chatty episode about our productivity right now. We’ve shared that our lives are constantly changing and this means so will your productivity. We have to be mindful of the seasons in life that we are currently in and how we have to make adjustments in order to accommodate certain aspects of our lives. 
This episode will be a start to a new series that we will have here on TOTD. From time to time we plan on sharing what we are going through. Think of this as friends talking over coffee and doing a little catch-up. So get ready because we are going to give you all a little life update, share what we are struggling with and what is going really well. 
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119. Learn From Our Mistakes: Our BIGGEST Productivity Struggles

This month we are breaking down productivity! Today we will chat with you all about some of our BIGGEST productivity struggles and how we have overcome them as teachers. 
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118. How To Overcome Your Organizational Mistakes

Organization can be challenging. From defining a space to maintaining it, organization is sometimes the last thing on our to-do list, but the one area in our life that can make the biggest impact. This month we’ve been focusing all on organization! You can check out the last two episodes in this mini-series to get caught up!
Episode 114. Learn From Our Mistakes: Our BIGGEST Organizational Struggles
Episode 116. Organization Habits Every Teacher Should Build
Most issues related to organization have to deal with the clutter filling our space or not having a system to actually keep related items together. In today’s episode we are sharing how you can overcome the organizational mistakes that you might be making. 
In this episode we share:
We have to make organizational systems more obvious so that we want to use them
We have to make organization attractive so that we enjoy the process of organizing
We have to make organization easy so that it reduces friction
We have to make organization satisfying so that we want to keep doing it again and again
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117. A Week in Bridget’s Life

This week, join Bridget as she works during one of the busiest time's of the year. Between report cards, placement cards and conferences, Bridget is finishing her Master's degree and sharing the excitement of this big accomplishment. Join her as she shares how she manages to break down tasks so that she doesn't feel overwhelmed. 
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116. Organization Habits Every Teacher Should Build

We all know the importance of building effective habits; we preach this every single episode. Today we want to share some habits that every teacher should be building when it comes to organization. This episode is part of our mini-series where we breakdown T.O.P. and share effective and simple strategies to help you be your very best YOU!
Remember we are basing our structure for building these habits from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits. We did an entire episode where we go in depth in the readings of Atomic Habits. You can hear our thoughts on the book by checking out episode 107. Tiny Changes That Give You Big Results!
In this episode we share:
6 habits that you should start to become a more organized person
Reasons for why these habits are so important to build
Examples for what these habits will look like in a day
Tips for help making these habits work
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