Time to Support PGES

Think and Share Let’s say a new teacher’s management skills result in a loss of instructional time. To solve the problem you ask him/her to observe a teacher highly effective in this area. What would you expect this new teacher to see and hear?

Think, Share, List  Visualize the master teacher and their classroom observed.  Share the behaviors you and the new teacher will see and hear.  As a group list the most significant behaviors.

For Your Consideration What can we learn as administrators about creating time for supporting teaching/learning from the “teaching” behaviors we listed?

Time to facilitate effective teaching and professional growth is a result as well as a support of leadership and the productivity of the culture.

Productive Culture Effective Leadership Efficient Use of Time

Five C’s for Saving and Having Time for PGES CommitCombine CoordinateCollaborate Communicate

COMMITCOLLABORATECOORDINATECOMBINECOMMUNICATE

COMMIT Commitment saves time by clearly focusing the work on what’s most important. People get done what really matters to you. What matters most to you? How do people know?

COLLABORATE We often talk about delegation as a time management skill. While this may be true, it often implies pushing off less important tasks to create time for yourself. Collaboration means engaging every member of the organization in getting what matters done. Time is truly saved when we work together to achieve the goals of the school. How do you collaborate?

COORDINATE Just as a great teacher coordinates activities to save time, we save time when we organize our work and the work of others in ways that increase productivity. How do you organize to make the most of not only your time but the time of others.

COMBINE Highly effective teachers and principals make connections to help to reduce the disjointedness of work that wastes time. They also think about ways that one action or communication can reinforce related goals or ideas. How do you use combining accomplish several things at once?

COMMUNICATE Lacking and/or ineffective communication wastes huge amounts of time. How do you make sure your communications are clear, concise and focused on the real work of your school?

Productive Culture Effective Leadership Efficient Use of Time

Strategies for Enhancing Time Efficiency We all have tricks of the trade for increasing effectiveness of our leadership and the productivity of our school’s culture. Let’s share some of those ideas.

Directions for Strategy Sharing Count off by five. Join colleagues with the same number as directed. Review the ideas provided. Add to the list, discussing how the strategy has help you increase your effectiveness and the productivity of others.