Organization Made Easy!: Tools for Today's Teachers

ISBN-13: 9781596671447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 176 str.

Frank Buck

Opis

Meet the ever-growing organizational demands of todays changing world with the variety of tools, digital and otherwise, available to you as a teacher. In this book, organization guru Frank Buck shows you how to take expert advantage of the specific electronic and paper-based resources that will help you manage your time and stay on course as a teacher of the 21st century. Buck offers practical, easy-to-read strategies for organizing your surroundings, increasing productivity, and reducing stress. Teachers will leave this book with a feeling of greater control of the day plus a renewed sense of pride in their profession. IN THIS BOOK... Organizing Digitally Organizing with Paper E-mail and other e-timesavers Handling multiple projects Handling the paper blizzard

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. The Universal Challenges of Time Management and Organization * The Universal Time Crunch * Organization, Time Management, and the Art of Teaching * How This Book Will Help 2. Handling the Paper Blizzard and Decluttering Your Room * Setting Up a Tickler File * Tickler Files in Action * Other Examples * Daily Ritual * And more... 3. Your Signature Tool: Organization Digitally * Why Do I Need a System? * What is a "Signature Tool"? * And more... 4. Your Signature Tool: Organizing With Paper * Paper or Digital? * Five Functions and Five Guiding Principles * And more... 5. Think It Through Once: Handling Repeating Tasks * Education is a Cyclic Business * Setting Up a Repeating Task System * Next Steps 6. Handling Multiple Projects * What Makes Projects Different? * Define the Goal * Break the Project Into Small Steps * And more... 7. Organizing Your Students * The Student Planner * Learn to Deal with Papers * And more... 8. Organizing Your Computer * Setting Up a Digital Filing System * The Desktop * And more... 9. E-mail, the Digital Resources Chart, and Other Electronic Timesavers * E-mail: Time Management Tool or Time Sink? * Decisions, Decisions: Getting from "In" to "Empty" * And more... 10. Focused or Fragmented? * Work from an Organized List * Quiet Time * And more... 11. Conclusion 12. Appendix A: Checklist for a Great Start 13. Appendix B: Configuring Outlook 14. References

O autorze

Frank Buck is an education consultant to schools and businesses. He has served as a central office administrator, principal, assistant principal, and band director during a career in education spanning almost 30 years. Dr. Buck writes a weekly newspaper column, maintains an active blog, and regularly presents at national conferences, including ASCD, Learning Forward, AMLE, NAESP, and Staff Development for Educators.