Finding Time
Managing Your Most Precious Resource
presented by
Ron Partin
This workshop is structured around a humorous slide presentation with active audience participation. It offers 101 effective time management tips as well as practical strategies for making your school a more enjoyable and rewarding environment. Though the workshop is tailored to the specific needs of your organization, content often focuses upon combatting procrastination, organizing paperwork, enhancing meeting effectiveness, setting productive priorities, and goal setting for success.
Program Objectives:
This staff development program is designed to enhance the educator's ability to:
- Identify the major time robbers in schools
- Halt the erosion of academic learning time
- Identify your long term professional and/or personal goals
- Turn dreams into goals, and goals into actions
- Put first things first by balancing the urgent and the important
- Schedule class time for maximum productivity and enhanced student learning
- Minimize the number of internal and external classroom interruptions
- Identify five ways to combat procrastination
- Develop an attitude of demanding excellence, not perfection from both self and others
- Control the paper blizzard
- Handle drop-in visitors
- Implement a personal time management system
- Attain optimal student time on-task
Time: Your Most Precious Resource
The myths of time usage
Identifying your time robbers
The erosion of school time
Working smarter, not harderDiscovering what you want
Goal setting for success
The power of mental imagery
Overcoming obstacles to success
Wishes vs. goals
Planning projects
First things first: Setting priorities
PERT: Planning the big projects
Scheduling your time
Discovering your prime time
Alternative schedulesGetting organized
Using lists effectively
The pitfalls of TO DO lists
Coping with the paper blizzard
Effective record-keeping
Cutting reading time
More productive meetings
When not to meet
Six cardinal rules for successful meetings
Delphi Technique: Meetings with nobody there
Effective team meetings
Attacking major time traps
Minimizing interruptions
Coping with drop in visitors
Decreasing telephone distractions
Just say "no" (tactfully)
Handing interruptions
Getting the most out of travel timeCombatting procrastination
The pitfalls of perfectionism
Special problems of educators
Taking attendance
Handling make-up assignments
Preserving classroom momentum
Improving student time on-task
Finding time for school improvement
