Course Details
Time management
The aim of this course is to help teachers at all levels to make more effective use of their working time. This aim leads naturally to core objectives. Firstly, pupils will be more effective learners. And secondly, teachers will have more time for rest, recreation and family life.
This course is written for teachers in the leadership group, but on the assumption that other teachers, support staff, and governors members can adapt it to their own needs - good time management is a universally essential skill.
As you work through the course you will:
- analyse the way you currently spend your working time
- learn how to prioritise your tasks, both in broad terms and in detail
- learn how to stop doing tasks that aren't necessary
- learn how to say no when tasks are passed on to you inappropriately or unfairly
- analyse how your organisation currently helps or hinders the efficient use of time
- learn how to improve the time management efficiency of your organisation
If you don't have any management responsibilities, or if you don't do any teaching, there may be one or two Tasks and Activities that don't apply to you. You can skip these and still complete the course without a problem.
Author Biography
Meet the course author:
Gerald Haigh is an educational writer and consultant specialising in school management matters. He has a background in teaching (including senior management posts up to and including headship) in a wide range of schools - primary, middle, secondary modern, bilateral, comprehensive and special. As a head, Gerald Haigh received specialist training on the relationship between headteachers and governing bodies. Since leaving headship, he has been a school governor for nine years, seven of them as chair. He has run governor training sessions for Warwickshire LEA, and is a frequent contributor to the governors' pages of the Times Educational Supplement.