The 2×10 strategy is simple: spend 2 minutes per day for 10 days in a row talking with an at-risk student about anything she or he wants to talk about. This simple strategy builds rapport and lets the student see that you genuinely care about them as a person. I don’t have time to talk individually with kids. You may…
Try the 2×10 Strategy to Reach That Difficult Student (Part 1)
Many teachers are talking about the success they are having with a strategy for working with a student for whom no other solutions seem to work. The 2×10 strategy is simple: spend 2 minutes per day for 10 days in a row talking with an at-risk student about anything she or he wants to talk about. This simple strategy builds…
Crazy Busy at Work
It seems wherever I go, I find people who are, what I call, ‘crazy-busy’ at work: Teachers and other staff who are on the go from the moment they arrive at school, who often miss out on meal and toilet breaks, and who work late, preparing for the next day. If you can relate to…
How To Avoid Unintended Consequences When Emailing Parents
Email should be a convenient and efficient communication tool. However, it is also fraught with danger as messages can be misinterpreted, especially if a ‘tone’ is read into the content. It is important to remember these key points when communicating with parents using email. Once you press SEND, your message is gone. You can’t take…
Speak Up – How Busy is the Staff Car Park after meetings?
In many schools, the staff car park is a busy place immediately after meetings. Colleagues often congregate in small groups, in the staff car park, to reflect on the meeting and share, what they were going to say or should have said! at the meeting. In the car park, after a meeting, staff tend to…
Stop Multitasking
IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR WORK DONE FASTER, STOP MULTITASKING! You lose up to 40% of productivity when you multitask? 40%! Can you afford to lose 40%? I know I can’t. One of the things when it comes to multitasking is that we’re actually really, really bad at it and it’s not really multitasking,…
Are Parents Adding To Your Stress?
I know most teachers will answer the above question with a resounding “Yes!” We have all had parents who add to our stress. You know that parent, who when you see them coming along the path towards you, your tension levels start to rise and that internal dialogue starts inside your head, “I hope they…
Report Writing and the 80/20 Rule
The 80 / 20 rule from the Italian mathematician, Pareto is relevant and applies to report writing. Pareto says it is important to identify the critical few and the trivial many. 80% of our time will be spent carefully writing and editing the reports on 20% of our students Some reports take longer to…
7 Habits of Effective People
Best selling author Dr Stephen Covey’s book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, provides staff in schools with habits worth developing. Covey advised that, “Real greatness was the result of the slow development of character over time; it is our daily habits of thinking and acting that are the ground on which that greatness is…
4 Stress Busting Tools
What’s Important? We all lead busy lives and despite our character traits, our dominant brain hemisphere’s and our ability to handle pressure, we ALL suffer stress in some form or other at different times. If you feel as though you are becoming overwhelmed from a work perspective – STOP! No, we don’t expect you to down…
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