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This week on Highly Recommended I’m sharing one of my favorite strategies for saving time AND adding quality to daily work tasks. Doesn’t seem possible, right?
Have you heard of decision fatigue? We make thousands of decisions every day, and it gets harder to make good ones as they stack up. That’s one good reason for having a set wardrobe you like - Steve Jobs-style - or always making tacos on Tuesdays.
It’s also a great reason to use templates in your work. They save time and they cut the number of decisions you have to make in a busy school day. Plus, when you start the daily tasks you usually have to churn out in a hurry with a well-crafted template, you actually create higher quality work.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about how to use templates for tasks like:
Vocab Quizzes
Handout design
Emails
Rubrics
And much more…
As you make ANYTHING, think of how you can use it again with a simple tweak.
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296: My Favorite Final Exam (I mean, not that I don’t love Multiple Choice)
295: Do your Students Race through Superficial Revision? Try This.
294: Crying in the Dusty Stairwell (on Hitting a Wall in Teaching)
293: Creative Exam Review Activities for ELA (that don't involve a packet)
292: Try the Sesame Street Quiz (5 Different Ways)
291: When Genius Hour WORKS (The Elective Series)
290: Try this Hack to Teach Varied Sentence Structure
289: How to Launch Book Talk Podcasts in Class
288: A Lesser-Known Amanda Gorman Gem
277: How Erica Used the AI PBL Project to give her Students Voice
276: Let All Books Count: A Tale of Two Kids
275: Teaching SciFi & Fantasy (The Elective Series continues)
274: Using Students’ Love of Youtube to our ELA Advantage
273: First Chapter Friday: Nancy Tandon Reads
272: You Need to Know about this Short Story
271: #Bookface is Well Worth a Look
270: Try a March Madness Poetry Bracket
269: Teaching Research to Digital Natives
268: Try These Google Translate Tools in Class
267: So your Students aren't Doing the Reading? Here's Help.
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