A notepad can save a teacher’s life

“Let me be honest, these strategies around time and personal effectiveness management have a lot of relevance for me right now. So, if it helps, consider me your own personal lab rat…or maybe guinea pig…much nicer!”

TIRED, STRESSED, EXHAUSTED? Personal Effectiveness For Teachers

I survived my first year of teaching by eating sausage rolls stuffed inside hot dog buns. Up at 5.00 a.m. to prepare lessons, I stumbled through the mornings, hungry and heavily caffeinated, before fleeing to the school canteen in my first period off, sometimes as late as 2pm to attack a super-sized sausage roll crammed inside a white hot dog bun which moments later I drowned in tomato sauce.