Thursday, 2 May 2013

Top 5 productivity blogs

There’s a whole world of productivity advice out there but, to stop you being unproductive by reading everything, here’s 5 of the best: time management ninja Feel like you’re wasting time? “The mission of this site it to help individuals and companies reclaim their time” lifehacker   Tips for every single area of your life. Productivity specific links here: productivity Michael Hyatt A variety of leadership topics including...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

start here

How do I work smarter not harder? Do you feel like the endless list of emails, spreadsheets, reports, marking and paperwork gets in the way of the job you actually wanted to do.... teach?! Most of it is (hopefully) useful but it can be overwhelming. You think you need to work harder - get into work earlier, stay later, working every night and weekends. Don’t do that. Claim your life back. There will always be hard work to be done...

marking and feedback

Marking often feels like a waste of time. The school marking policy wants constructive feedback  but does all the time you spend writing comments actually have an effect on the pupils? Do you feel like you’re writing the same comment over and over again. You need a feedback strategy. This automated feedback system takes time to set up, but once it is up and running it will do the work for you, generating the feedback comments and...