Time Smart Teaching: 8 Insider Tips to Reduce Teacher Workload that Schools Don't Tell You

by Jane Bell

Are you new to the secondary school teaching profession in the UK and feeling overwhelmed? If you answered 'Yes' then this book is for you. Based on my 10 years teaching and school leadership experience, I share my 8 key areas in which you reduce your workload and gain a better work-life balance whilst being a Good or Outstanding teacher. This book will get you into the mindset of becoming a time- efficient teacher using affirmations and producing systems that drastically reduce marking and feedback processes . You will learn which tasks to do, delegate and delete from your workload. This book will give you practical advice and lots of free resources to implement straight away into your classroom setting in UK high schools, regardless of the subject you teach. Along the way you will receive my frank and brutally honest appraisal of the teaching system and how it exploits teachers who are not assertive enough to leave work at the school gate. If you have ever wondered how to stop taking your marking home, or design assessments that are quick to mark, then look no further. The chapters in this book will teach you how to say 'no' to extra demands on your time, and maximise the time available during your working day so you can leave the school at 3:30 pm, right after the kids. Don't burn out trying to become the 'perfect' teacher, instead, learn to become a time-smart teacher.

290 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2019