#timetables in the system. like including the timetables for stuff that absolutely should be set up like gcse maths

[ogbonnaohakwe]

How To Make Money Freelancing Online In 2021: The Definitive Guide

This is the beginner guide on How To Make Money Freelancing Online In 2021: The Definite Guide Part 1.

Freelancing can end up being a great way to make money for individuals who do it part-time or full-time. The way to make money freelancing is to be dedicated and create a good reputation. Without these two things, it will be hard to find jobs and generate new ones in the future. There are a lot of different types of freelancers out there; including web design individuals, people who have blogs, and writers. How to make money freelancing in Nigeria in simple steps. With all of these opportunities, there are a lot of ways on how to make money freelancing for anyone who has the skills.

Freelancing is probably one of the most well-known ways of making money online. It is by no means the only way but if you have a skill that you can offer others, such as writing, editing, photography, graphic design, or many others, you can become a freelancer. Just choose something you are good at or have a passion for doing and you should be able to make money doing it.

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How To Make Money Freelancing, Probably one of the best ways to get started is to look into reputable freelancing sites like Upwork.com, Fiverr.com, or even PeoplePerHour.com that connect skilled freelancers with individuals who want to hire them. There are a few of these and you should take a look at three or four of them at least.

Most of these sites have both free membership and paid memberships. Once you find one or two that have a layout and system that appeals to you, get a free membership and start bidding on projects. You should be able to get a job or two and this will be enough to let you figure out which site is your favorite.

Generally it is recommended that you stick with just one site – especially if you are going to become a paying member. There should be more than enough work on just one of the big sites to keep you making money online, so there is no reason to pay for more than one membership.

A lot of people are intimidated by the idea of getting onto a bidding site and competing with other freelancers for work, but you really shouldn’t be. It is true that you won’t win every project – in fact, you may only get one in every five or ten – but the important thing is that you bid what you think you are worth. Some freelancers think that in How To Make Money Freelancing, undercutting everyone else is the best way to win jobs. But most buyers are more likely to go with the provider who gives a reasonable bid and crafts a good proposal than the provider who just has the lowest price.

As you complete jobs and get the feedback you will become more comfortable with your timetables and prices. This will make it easier and easier for you to get jobs. How To Make Money Freelancing 2021 guides

This also applies to the other common method of finding freelance work – having your own website. By creating a website or blog about yourself and the services you offer, you are basically setting up a sales page for yourself. Many freelancers will say that their website is their most important tool.

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You don’t have to have a website right away, especially if you are still figuring out exactly what kind of services you want to offer. But you should consider getting one as soon as possible. This is because you can reach out and introduce yourself to potential clients as well as stay in contact with established clients.

While becoming a freelancer may seem like a big challenge, the fact is that it is something that anyone with selling skills can do. If you start small and on a part-time basis you shouldn’t have any trouble finding your strengths and moving up to bigger projects and paychecks.

Some people may ask these questions on hot to make money freelancing online:

How can I make $100 a day on the internet?

Here are the sure ways to make $100 a day online freelancing: Start a dropshipping store Run a print-on-demand store Sell custom products online Sell handmade crafts on Etsy Sell products on Amazon Create digital products Start an affiliate marketing business Build online courses Sell freelance services

How can I make money right now?

Start a Shopify ecommerce store and sell dropshipping products online Sell virtual assistant or freelance services on websites like Fiverr or Upwork Sell used stuff on Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, or Facebook Marketplace Do micro-tasks on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program Tutor kids online in English Rent your unused space on Airbnb Drive for Uber or Lyft Create information products Become a Tasker on TaskRabbit Trade in items on Gazelle or Amazon for gift cards

There many ways you can make money online in Nigeria from freelancing and doing affiliate marketing.

Important Steps On How To Make Money Freelancing Online In 2021

Discover the most crucial steps on how to make money freelancing online, although there are too many steps to take, below are the listed and most comprehensive steps to follow to make money freelancing online in Nigeria.

Advertise on Existing Websites:

How to make money freelancing online in 2021 is by advertising your skills on an existing website to attract clients to your profile and work. People who already have their own website can easily generate more money each month by advertising on it. There are a lot of potential advertisers that will pay website owners to advertise their brand or product. This could be a blogger giving away free products that the company sends in or simply putting up some banner ads. When more people click on the banner ad, more money will be made. Website owners who use advertisers that will target their regular visitors have really good earning potential. A good example of such site you can join in Nigeria is Expertanire.com

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Join a Freelancing Website:

Freelancers can easily find new jobs by joining websites that are designed for them. These are free for most members to join, although there might be fees associated with jobs once they are completed. People who need work done will post their job up on the site for all freelancers to see. Individuals who are interested can easily bid on the project if they are qualified. The poster will then be able to look at the profile of the freelancers who bid on the job to see who the best choice is. Although this can be competitive, it’s a great way to make money online for anyone who has a special skill.

Start a Website And Teach:

Anyone who has special skills can easily teach others how to use them online. Like my website, you can see that I offer different services and mentorship programs, you might want to check it out. This could be via a newsletter or even through video sessions on Skype, Zoom, WhatsApp, etc. Most people are willing to pay for these things because they are less expensive than taking a real class in person. Freelancers who are skilled and can teach others will have a lot of earning potential online. When more people find out about the classes this will increase the number of people who desire the service.

Become A Writer

There are a lot of different websites that allow freelance writers to join for absolutely no cost to them. They can then find people to write for and get paid whenever the articles are accepted. These websites vary in how they work. Some writing websites are meant for writers to find random people to create articles for. Other sites are meant for writers to find regular people they can work for all the time. The pay will vary based on the types of articles that are written, how long they are, and a lot of other factors. An example of such a site is Fiverr.com

Selling Products

Some freelancers can turn their knowledge of how the internet works into large profits just by selling things! There are a lot of different websites that allow people to sell products to people all over the world. This could be through an auction site like eBay or a marketplace like Amazon; there are a lot of different choices out there. If someone is good at selling and knows how to navigate through the site, they can end up making a lot of money.

There are even photography websites where photographers can sell their pictures to websites or just list them for buyers to find. In addition to this, there are art websites where artists can sell their creations to buyers who want unique items. The best part about these is that sellers can set their own prices for each of the different pieces. A lot of people have made businesses out of these types of websites.

Like in this my website, I created a space where I sell all my digital products, from courses and books some freelancers or digital marketers do create a section on their blog where they sell eBooks and Videos as well, I think you should give it a shot, it worth trying

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[adhd-sorcha]

Im trying to get into the medical field and I have a super hard time with adhd. Any advice for getting through all that schooling?

I am soooo sorry I took so long to answer this (good thing you didn’t go on anon!). I have no excuse, I’m just like this.

Before I get into anything, I just want to say that I was only diagnosed a few months ago, so I didn’t go through school consciously coming up with ADHD-busting strategies and there were definitely mysterious difficulties that I’m only now understanding but at the time I never managed to sort (*shakes fist at essay based subjects/exams*). I will tell you what I think were my accidental ADHD-helping techniques though! One other thing, I have predominantly inattentive ADHD ( or formerly ADD) so if you or anyone else are looking for tips on how to stay seated for extended periods or anything like that, I’m afraid I’m no help there. Sorry!! Also, since I don’t know what stage you’re at school-wise, I’ll include things that I found useful in secondary school too, in case it’s useful.

So, in no particular order! (this may get long...)

- Diary, diary, diary: In the schools (primary and secondary) here in Ireland you get given a diary at the start of the year. At the end of every class, the teacher writes up the homework and we copy it into our diaries. Great system!! The diary is only for school so it never needs to leave your school bag, so it should be hard enough to forget. I used to only write short notes, eg. Maths: pg 20, part a-e or something like that. It makes it easy to look through at the end of the day when collecting your books to bring home. I used to look at one line, put those books in my bag, then look at the next line. One at a time. And I often double-checked. It made me slower to get ready to leave than everyone else, but hey! I remembered my stuff! I got myself a diary for college when I moved on. They are soooo helpful. And it’s so satisfying to tick things off as you do them!!

- Have ONE school bag: Might sound weird, but I know people who, in college, just bring whatever handbag matches their outfit that day. No! You’re going to forget to transfer something over. With one bag, you can keep your school diary and pens and student card and things like that in it. They will always be in there. No need to go moving them around, they’ll only get lost if you do that. It just helps to limit the things that you have to remember to bring with you, if your bag is already kind of packed as a default.

- Take advantage of desk/locker space: Keep spare items at your desk/in your locker so that even if you forget to put them in your bag, you’re still covered. Things that I’ve kept at desks/in lockers include: spare pair of glasses, hair ties for labs, spare writing paper (so it doesn’t matter if you forgot your copy!), pens/highlighters/pencils, socks (it rains a lot here, probably not the most relevant...). Absolutely anything that you think you may be likely to forget and is safe to leave at school just keep a spare one already there! (maybe don’t leave valuables...)

- Set your timetable as your lockscreen/homescreen: I’ve never done this one personally. I kept my timetable in my diary. I find it easier to read. But, I know a few people who used to make out their timetable in Word or something and set that as the lockscreen on their phone. People tend to keep their phones somewhere that’s easy to reach, so it shouldn’t conflict too much with executive dysfunction or anything like that.

- Routine: Having a set routine can really help with getting homework done. It becomes a habit and so a certain amount becomes automatic. I used to do mine as soon as I got home from school/college. And I had a set time for when to start my work at the weekends.

- Bring the lecture slides to lectures: I assume this will vary by college, but our lecturers used to post their lecture slides to the class site before the lecture so you could bring them to class. You could either bring the pdf on a tablet/laptop or print them off. (If you’re using a tablet/laptop you can always download the notes when you get there so it’s okay if you forgot to do it before class!). I found these helpful because I only had to make note of the extra information that the lecturer said out loud or I could just highlight important words, thereby limiting the amount I actually had to write. When I just had blank paper, I was always trying to write everything for some reason and just became lost...

- Make study notes that suit you! I remember being shown in school how to make notes when studying. But I found the standard neat lines, black/blue pen that teachers wanted didn’t work for me. They were boring to look at so they were boring to use. So I made them interesting! I used lots of colourful pens, sticky notes just to create little ‘boxes’, scribbled in the margins, drew labelled diagrams instead of putting some things into words. People would actually ask from time to time how I studied from them XD Study notes are one of those things that we’re taught how to do, but there really isn’t a one size fits all approach to it, so don’t be afraid to do different things with your notes. I used mind maps to study history in school! Here’s an example of my 3rd year pharmacology notes (believe it or not there isn’t any colour-coding XD I just went with what was fun!). 

- Have a study buddy: This seriously helped me when I moved from school to college. The two girls I became friends with in first year were so much better at organising study and assignment work between lectures than I was. They’d just automatically go to the library to get stuff done between lectures so I went with them and just worked on whatever they were working on. Having them around kept me on track. We did this informally (by which I mean I’ve only recently come to realise that copying their behaviour is why I got through my first two years so well, they have no idea that that’s what I was doing XD), but you could always formalise something like this with someone. There is no shame in needing someone to help you organise your study or needing someone around to work on assignments together.  You don’t have to do education on your own.

- Have multiple study places: I know study advice normally says have one dedicated location for study, but that gets so boring. I might be able to study at my desk in my room this month but then it gets boring and I can’t study. So, I have multiple dedicated locations for study. My desk at my room, the main college library, library on a different campus. People with ADHD like novelty, so sometimes I find having a change in study scenery can help focus on work!

- ASK FOR HELP: To be fair, this is one I still struggle with myself. But honestly, so many problems can be solved so easily if you just tell someone about them. Can’t remember when that exam is happening? Ask. Don’t know how to make that application/do that assignment? Ask. What did those instructions even mean? Ask. Forget where that office is? Ask. So many educators, particularly at third level, genuinely want their students to do well, but they can’t help if they don’t know you need it. I know for myself I don’t want people to know how disorganised or confused I get so I put off asking questions, but the sooner you ask, the sooner the problem gets fixed!

- If you need to do something differently, do it differently: Before I started my leave I was starting to realise that my having ADHD meant that I would have to do things differently to my neurotypical labmates. I was going to need to write more reminders of basic things for myself and stick them all over my bench. I was probably going to generate data more slowly than them because time management and organisation is difficult for me. I was going to need to have a detailed protocol next to me at all times instead of knowing the procedure off by heart like the rest of them. The neurotypical way is not the only way. Doing something differently does not make it wrong.

- Be kind to yourself: The education system is tough enough on it’s own, but those of us with ADHD have some extra obstacles in our way. There really is no point in comparing yourself to someone who doesn’t have ADHD (or similar problems) and berating yourself for not getting as much done as them or doing something slower etc etc. Don’t let ADHD limit you by any means, just remember that the route to success looks different for different people.

I think I’ll stop it here. This is getting quite long! Like I said, I’m newly diagnosed so there are things that I’m still struggling with myself (time-management is a big one!! I am 100% unqualified to give people advice on that one!!) and the things that I have done well have been more lucky accident than anything else. I hope these are somewhat helpful? Feel free to ask anymore questions though! And I wish you the best of luck with getting into medicine!!

#asks #tips #neurodivergent academia #adhd #actually adhd

[aboleth-eye]

Hello! Would you have any advice for new DMs/things you wish you had been told when you started DMing? I'd like to try it myself, but I've only ever been a player, and just figuring out where to start is a bit overwhelming! Thank you in advance!

Great Question!  Here are my Lessons Learned from when I ran a game for the first time!  

There are Four Lessons I wish I’d known when I got started:  Have Your Resources Handy, Start Small (3 Parts), Things Go Awry, and Have Fun Together!   ((This is going to be a very long post, so I’ll cap it a little less than halfway down))

1.)  Have Your Resources Handy!

If this is your first time running a Tabletop RPG system, even if you’ve been playing for years, HAVE THE BOOK(S), WEBSITE(S) AND/OR PDF(S) NEARBY!  I’m serious about this, guys!  Playing a game or watching someone else play is a totally different monster to running it!  

When you first declare to the group that you’d like to host a game, I recommend you read the rules over at least two or three times before hand–start with a deep read first to get it all in your head, and then you can choose to speed read once you’ve had some time to digest the rules.  

But even if reading ttrpgs is your thing, have the resources within easy reach.  Either have your laptop available with open tabs to any pdfs/scans of the game source material and any relevant websites (like standard reference document pages), and/or have a physical copy of the game book with you.  If you are running certain monsters or encounters, I also recommend you copy down any stats and information to a separate text document (on laptop or printed) so you won’t have to page through stuff during the game.

2A.) Start Small: The Setting

If this is your first time or fiftieth time running a tabletop roleplaying game, and you are running a new system for the first time, limit the scope of project to start.  Writing campaign and world settings can be very intense, and it is very easy to write something too specific and railroad people into your lore and world.

For instance, don’t create a massive world with a continent of named cities and landmarks!  Don’t plan out every inch of your world, or else it’ll turn into a “fill-in-the-blank exploration” story instead of an organic world you can change as your group learns and grows!

My first campaign started in a very specifically written city on the edge of a vast magical desert.  I planned out a timetable of events that would catapult the players into the “open-world”.  The players noticed this and didn’t appreciate it. 

Also, do not bog your players down with Lore!  I’ve gone into campaigns where you need to know information “for backstory”!  This is your first campaign, it’s good to know what to introduce and when!  A group of starting adventurers typically doesn’t need to know your world’s entire array of deities, pages and pages of history, and legends “that shaped the world”!  You can introduce these things at character creation IF THE PLAYERS ASK, and then slowly dish things out as the characters live in your world.

It’s also good to not ties yourself down to specific placement of towns, countries, cities, landmarks, etc.  Leave the map blank save for the starting area, and any broadly defined areas such as forests and mountains.  Once characters finish their first missions and adventures, they’ll explore!  With all the “white space” of your world, you can insert places and things as you journey with the group!  

One of my favorite encounters when I was very new to D&D was when we accidentally burned down a forest.  We were fighting a massive tiger with a pixie NPC in a forest, and the pixie just trapped everyone (tiger included) in entangling vines.  Our pyromancer in the party tried to set the beast on fire, and they rolled a critical failure.  

The beast was set on fire and died!  And so did the pixie!  And now there’s a raging forest fire we have to run from!  We get an oxcart running and we take shifts to outrun the magical fire–FOR THREE DAYS!  It was an incredibly tense situation, and it was fun to add “an entire forest” to the pyromancer player’s list of things they set on fire.

You know what would have made all that suck?  If the DM had decided: “Okay, you pass through this location which is a lich’s hideout and have to face that; then the next day you’ll have to ford a river with the tired oxes.  Finally, you’ll be passing through this county’s border…”  

We just burned down a placeholder  forest, and all the consequences that came with it came AFTER we were finally safe!  The DM didn’t bog us down with heavy lore and their maps during a tense situation; they kept the focus on the action at hand.

Prioritize the players’ story before your own!  That’s the lesson I want to make absolutely clear.  You aren’t telling your story with friends as the characters; the Dungeon Master/Game Master/Storyteller is the worldbuilder who tells the character groups’ story as they interact with the world.

2B) Start Small: The First Encounters

Another item I want to bring up is Do Not Start Your Campaign with a “Unique Encounter”!  Start your campaign setting with a simple task for the players to face.  Here are the kinds of challenges I mean: defeat a bunch of zombies in a graveyard for a reward, go into a mine full of bats to retrieve a homing beacon, follow a simple mystery to find a girl’s lost dog, etc.  The Players’ should be introduced to your world with something simple to follow–that way they can make their marks and introduce how they roleplay to the story.  

Do Not try something you’ve “never seen before”!  Don’t have the characters whisked off to another plane or world while they slept!  Don’t have the players face fifteen or so mooks at once during an ambush!  Don’t have your characters struggle to tread water or leap floating platforms while fighting a monster!  These kinds of encounters instantly put players on guard and feel railroaded!  Give them the chance to decide how they integrate themselves into the adventure.

My first campaign violated this rule.  When the players left the city to enter the desert, they were suddenly beset by 12 monstrous scorpions!  And me, in my ambitious tunnel-vision, thought it’d be interesting to have each scorpion have its own turn.  I rolled twelve Initiatives for the scorpions and it was a LONG combat when it clearly didn’t have to be.  

It all looked so good in my head, but when you get players involved you can tell how grueling and boring something like that could be.  I learned a lot that session.

That combat ended the campaign for me.  I decided to go back to the drawing board because that kind of thinking was not going to fly for me and my friends.

Instead, give your players a task that could easily be solved in one or two sessions!  Do not give your players “only one way” to solve this!  For instance, if your first challenge is to get past some guards, let the players come up with the solution themselves.  They might decide to fight the guards, use magic/science to teleport past them, go off on a side quest to become guards so they can infiltrate them, or even walk up and attempt to socialize with them.  You as the storyteller/DM merely narrate the results of whatever the characters do; just bridge the gaps and think of consequences from the players’ actions.

ALSO!  Have a time limit for your first session, or plan breaks for food/drink/stretching.  This activity of DMing can be very stressful, and you might need a break to take stock of what problems and choices occurred during play.  

2C.) Start Small: The Players

Have your players build starting or low-level characters (I typically start with 3rd level for D&D).  The low levels will mean most powergaming and gamebreaking attempts by certain types of players will be nipped in the bud right from the start.  It will also typically limit the powers and abilities of your group (so you won’t have to memorize or look up high-level stuff until much later).  

Another thing I highly recommend is that you are present during character creation!  Do not let people determine/roll character abilities and stats without you.  Either be physically present when dice get rolled and abilities get determined, or be present digitally in a chatroom, discord or roll20 when electronic character sheets get filled in!  

My first campaign I allowed one of the players to bring a character from a friend’s campaign into it.  The original DM ended the campaign; and even though I had played in that campaign alongside this character I had no clue what they could do.  This made things challenging because this character “suddenly” remembered they could fly–so I had to add aerial combat onto my plate during the first fight of the campaign.

It made the situation tense, especially with my bad early encounters (see the 12 Scorpions combat above).

3.) Things Go Awry

If you’ve come this far, there’s one last piece of advice I want to give you.  Your first campaign is gonna suck in one way or another.

I don’t mean that to be disheartening; I want you to think of it as a learning experience.  Whenever a person learns a new skill or engages in a new activity for the first time, it’s always gonna suck.  (Even if someone has a “natural talent”).  You as the DM/Storyteller are going to notice problems crop up left and right; especially if you don’t take the advice I offered above.  For instance, if you start learning to paint with a new medium or start a sport you’ve never tried; you need to practice with the tools and techniques you’ve prepared to see what works for your style of learning.  

Running a roleplaying game is a very unique mashup of activities.  There’s typically a math element you need to consider behind every action the players take.  You need to workout your improvisation skills to bridge connections and gaps your players make.  You need to get in front of a group of people (sometimes more or less experienced than you) and tell a story that keeps their attention.  It’s a stressful mix of being an improv actor, a storyteller and the physical laws of your world.

Hopefully your players will understand when things get crazy and overwhelming.  Gametime might come to a halt because you need to look up a specific rule or wording that you aren’t familiar with.  It’s okay.  Until you get to know how your game world runs with your players in it, it is totally fine to take a breath and think things through.  Oftentimes you can ask your players for help in making a determination or house-ruling.

Last note on this topic: Get Feedback!  At the end of the session, be bold and ask your players if they enjoyed the session, what they liked and what they didn’t like.  Feedback is how DMs get insight on how the game is playing out.  While you’re DMing, your mind is on a million different topics; let the players tell you how they felt during gameplay, so you know what made them feel good or bad on the other side of the curtain.

4.) Have Fun Together!

This is something that needs to be said, if I’m honest.  Running a game can be a stressful activity that “ruins” some things about it now that you are “behind the curtain”.  This is your first session, in what you hope to be a series of games where you and your friends make all sorts of memories.

However, some DMs get incredibly discouraged and no-nonsense when they run a game for their first few times.  That is understandable, especially if being the “mastermind” is a challenge you haven’t prepared for.  A few sessions in and you might find the game isn’t fun for you and/or your players.  That might be a sign that you need to take a break from hosting–use that time to think how you can make the game fun for everyone, or if this campaign just needs to be scrapped!

The priority of the DM is to bring people together.  If a game system, campaign concept or player actions aren’t making the group (you included) happy; it’s better to stop things and take stock before things go too far.  It is never fun to admit your game isn’t viable or enjoyable, but hopefully you’ll have new experience you can take with you the next time you try your game.  

And heck, if you find you prefer playing at this time, that’s fine!  Even if this attempt didn’t have the results you expected, there is nothing to stop you from trying again later if you wanted.  But now that you know how it is behind the curtain, you are naturally more observant to how your own DM/GM runs their games and you can learn from it.

Remember how good the game system/lore/etc made you feel!  It’s why you wanted to DM in the first place; you recognized you had a story you wanted to tell, and this ttrpg had the tools to bring it to life!  No matter what problems arise when you’re behind the curtain, the game should still bring you enjoyment whether you play or manage the game.  Do not give up on the game just because of one bad session or two!  

When I decided to end my campaign, it really was a painful decision.  I loved the world as it was in my mind, but I was not executing it well so that my players enjoyed it.  I got feedback after that terrible 12 Scorpions combat, and decided to take some time to think about everything.  Our group went back to our original DM, with other members trying to DM in that time; and honestly I didn’t DM until I started a small separate group months later.  

During that gap in DMing I digested what I liked and didn’t like about my campaign, and had more time to reflect on the rules.  I decided to take a few steps back and learn from my mistakes.  I still made mistakes the second and third times I DMed, I make mistakes even to this day.  

But at the heart of it all, I love games so much that I want to constantly make my stories and worlds even better, even to this day.

I take the struggles of DMing as learning experiences, rather than let them define me as a writer, storyteller and game master.  I use them as stepping stones so I don’t fall through the gaps again.  I may have started out with a bad first campaign, but I would never take those mistakes away.  

I hope these lessons were helpful!  I love D&D and tabletop roleplaying games so much, and love giving out advice on how to make the experience your own.  I hope this helps a lot of new people bring their stories to life!  Also, I hope I helped everyone’s expectations into the right state of mind.  

Good luck and happy gaming everyone!!  Much love!

– Aboleth-Eye

#aboleth eye #d&d ask #d&d resources #dm resources #lessons learned #tabletop games #tabletop resources #dm inspiration #tabletop inspiration #game night #tabletop story

[yogaposesfortwo]

Teachers and Studios on Bringing Their Yoga Classes Online

If we were told a few months back that all studios would be closed, retreats cancelled and public classes banished we wouldn’t have believed it. Yoga Teachers and Studios livelihoods rely on their students to show up and when this isn’t possible, times can be worrying.  It is astounding to see the yoga industry evolve to offer classes online, whole studio timetables now available online and teachers and students working together to bring yoga to our homes when we need it most.  We caught up with some Yoga Teachers and studio owners in our network to hear about how they have adapted to the change. For those who are feeling overwhelmed by the change, we hope that this piece will lift your spirits – because we are all in this together, collectively hoping to share happiness, health and love to one another, however we can.

Jess Horn

What are you offering? I am offering my full schedule on line, x 6 – 8 classes a week, with live streaming, donation based classes. I’m also providing some free content including short videos and some Relaxation evenings/ home retreats which I’m hoping to help as many people as possible relax, connect with their bodies, de-stress and manage anxiety. Also to provide a sense of community and move away from fear into connecting with hope, love and the best qualities of humanity. I’m also going to put together a short course – Introduction to Meditation –  for the home office – How to navigate these uncharted waters with more ease. What challenges have you faced or what have you been surprised by? I’ve been surprised at how much it’s helping people. I’m getting really positive feedback and its great to see how many people are keen to join in and embrace new technology!  I have faced a few teething issues (like muting myself accidentally half way through a class!) But each time I do it, it gets a little easier! What is your advice would you like to share to other teachers and the yoga community? If you’re a teacher, now is the time for seva, (service) and your students need you now more than ever, so do reach out to them. As teachers we have the toolkit, the science of yoga, to help them to regulate their nervous system through their breath and find space and calm amongst these crazy and uncertain times. Don’t be afraid about being on line, if its new for you, it can be challenging, but start small, maybe doing a little live, or even pre-recording a video and sharing. You don’t need loads of fancy equipment, or a huge space and it doesn’t matter what you look like, just be authentically you! Remember Done is better than perfect! So move through the self doubt as the world now more than ever, needs your yoga!  I know that many of us rely on our teaching for our income so do ask for a donation / payment if you’re offering full classes. Maybe offer smaller free offerings or donations for those who struggle financially. At this time we need to dig deep, double up on our self care and practice what we preach! If you’re a student of yoga, reach out to your teacher and tell them what you’d like them to share and how you can support each other. We don’t know how long this will go on for, so we need to all pull together and provide support for each other and the yoga community! 

Trisha Champaneri

What are you offering? All my classes are online now – so that’s mainly yoga flows and meditations.  I’ve got something going on every day as I’m trying to keep busy and my regular clients are really needing their practice more than ever.  I’m streaming via Zoom and IGTV and my schedule is on my website. From Monday EVERY DAY at 8:30am, I’ll be offering a daily meditation and motivational video on IGTV.  I want to help people get their ducks in a row early doors, so they align with their intentions and get the most from their day.  This type of grounding work is so valuable and consistency is absolutely key. I’ve got clients that will put this on for their kids too when the schools close.  Hopefully it will set the tone for the day and give some structure to the people who follow it regularly.    What challenges have you faced or what have you been surprised by? Teaching online is TOTALLY different to teaching in real life.  I don’t think I’ve ever fully appreciated that and I’m massively out of my comfort zone!  I am learning something new with each class and it’s really giving me a sense of purpose at the moment.  It’s also given me a real respect for anyone that has ever put themselves out there online and shared this type of work.  It takes guts.   Another challenge is the logistics of course.  Generally I’m okay with tech stuff, but wouldn’t say that I’m the best, so I’m having to learn a lot on that front too.  Currently I’m taking donations for classes (from those who can afford to pay) via my website, but I know that this could be a lot slicker, so I’ll aim to refine that in the next few days.  Classes are obviously free for key workers.  I am pleasantly surprised by the way in which we’re all supporting one another.  The teaching community, small local businesses, everyone really, we’re all rooting for each other and I love that.       What advice would you like to share to the other teachers and the yoga community? Wash your hands and don’t touch your face.  Seriously though, If you’re thinking of doing something similar, DO IT!!!! You can set up streams for your regular students if you’re not comfortable with opening the net wider.  Honestly, it’s easier to set up than you think.   I’d also ask people giving completely free classes to question what that says about the value that you place on what we offer as practitioners.  For sure at the moment, there will be people who cannot afford to pay and they should not have to. But there will also be people who can afford to make a contribution and they absolutely should.  We are all turning to these practices to ease the heightened feeling of anxiety. How can that not be worth something?  Essentially, as I am learning, you just need to back yourself and get on with it.  I know teaching is a very personal and vulnerable thing, but what you offer can and will help someone.  If you have the capacity to do this, then you must, particularly in this time of need and uncertainty. I wish you all the best of health and am sending high vibes to everyone. 

Paula Gardiner, Space2be and The Yoga Lighthouse

What are you offering? We’re offering on-line classes to all of our members. We have also created social media groups where our teachers are sharing videos and free resources. I am in the process of expanding our on-line offering with some pop up events to learn new fun skills eg. quiz night, knitting group , arts and crafts, strictly come dancing classes (learn some basic steps). A variety of activities to keep our members active and inspired. What challenges have you faced or what have you been surprised by? Technology! Communicating with members via so many different ways WhatsApp, Texts, Social groups and making sure everyone has seen the communications! Also making so many quick decisions – not knowing if they are right but no time to procrastinate – trust your intuition! I have been so surprised how important classes are to people a familiar face. How well the on-line classes have been received. I did one I loved it. Connection is so important right now. It’s amazing what we can do in a week if we have to! What is your advice would you like to share to other teachers and the yoga community? Advice – it doesn’t have to be perfect just get something up and running asap. Keep your community close, involve your Teachers, ask for help, communicate not just email get on video pick up the phone. Think what else do customers need. Kindness will go along way so think long term not short term.

Nicole Andrews, FloYoga

What are you offering? We are running a full schedule on Zoom that is booked through mind body from Monday onwards. We started with some donation based classes on IG live for the last few days to trial out how online would work with our community. What challenges have you faced or what have you been surprised by? Really surprised by how much people wanted us to continue at home and its been so amazing the amount of support from our community and beyond practicing at such a challenging time with us and donating to help keep us alive! Challenges are things like music and how to set it up and use it online, how to see if everyone is getting what you are teaching and it is clear or the level etc in class, we hope to get some people using webcam when we go on to Zoom to combat this. What is your advice would you like to share to other teachers and the yoga community? It can be nerve–wracking especially the first couple of times, but like anything new it just takes practice and then you get more comfortable. It’s almost like a reminder of what it was like to start teaching all over again, and has you questioning everything as it’s live for the world to see! Without the ability to have live feedback from students in the room you don’t really know much till after. So really believe in yourself and what you’re doing, it can be daunting as there’s so many offerings but it’s no different to the options in person. Don’t compare yourself to other offerings online, let’s all support each other where we can and enjoy this new challenge! The post Teachers and Studios on Bringing Their Yoga Classes Online appeared first on Yogamatters Blog. Author: Yogamatters Source: https://www.yogamatters.com/blog/teachers-and-studio-owners-on-bringing-their-classes-online/ Discover more info about Yoga Poses for Two People here: Yoga Poses for Two Read the full article

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Everyone is talking about workload and rightly so.  It’s even becoming a line of enquiry for inspections.  The folk up at Wizard of O HQ are banging on about it – because they are the new Good Guys –  and Headteachers now have an extra incentive to make sure they are doing something.  This time, happily, this bandwagon is something we can all agree is necessary.  Even though real terms budget cuts mean schools have fewer admin staff to make people’s lives easier and teachers have MaxPlus timetable loadings and bigger classes – making workload potentially harder to manage – there is still plenty that we can do.

Some workload issues require a major culture shift; some simply need us to rebalance the trade-off between the benefits of autonomy  and the benefits of working collaboratively within an agreed system; others need us to stop doing certain things altogether.

Here are some workload reduction approaches you might want to consider:

Marking

Change marking expectations explicitly and publicly.  Change all the language around marking  to feedback.  Make it clear that only specific pieces of work will be teacher marked.  Keep the marking very lean and very selective.  Introduce whole-class feedback as the default method replacing teacher red pen in books and don’t make your book scrutinies into marking-checks.  They are for looking at standards and progress.

During testing periods – like mock exams – cut back on the scale of each exam and be clear that test marking will replace other forms of marking during that period.

Remember – the learning impact of marking is very very low. If your main reason for maintaining an intense marking culture is parental expectations, then just tell them you’re changing things and explain why.

Planning

In my view, there is way too much duplication of effort across schools – and the nation (See this Reinventing the Wheel post).  If you are taking workload seriously you can make a big difference – and support setting standards – by making sure that every unit of work has one central scheme of work with one set of default resources: questions, reading, worksheets, slides etc. This then provides everyone with a backbone to deviate from if they choose to; if they have time.  But – it means that, at any time, you can use the standard materials without having to create anything extra most of the time.

For this to work, because teachers often don’t like using other people’s stuff, you need to produce as much of this as you can collaboratively with everyone contributing and, thus, developing important curriculum design skills.  Agree on the format and standards and don’t be too precious about sharing or about using materials other people have produced.   If you invest in this this year, it will make future years so much easier, replacing the culture of teachers scrabbling around making their own resources, making tests, planning good learning sequences etc.  This should all be there for you, allowing you to focus on how to deliver the lessons.

Reports

This is simple:  Ditch writing subject comments.  It’s a massive, massive workload burden with very little gain in terms of learning – alongside all the nonsense of creating ‘meaningful’ comments and the tedious, laborious proof-reading that is required.   If you do one overall tutor comment per year and report all subject progress through codes and grades, it cuts workload massively.  My son’s schools did this last year; it worked well. The Head wrote to explain and that was that.  It makes total sense.

Forms

Every time you make pro forma and think – it will only take a minute – multiply that by 100 and then ask whether you really need the information.  Are you asking because you genuinely want the information or is it really a form of control.  Keep information requests to an absolute minimum in the most streamlined format.

Duties

I don’t think schools can run safely without teachers doing duties. It’s always going to be part of the deal.  However, I recommend that staff consider switching to duty weeks instead of weekly duties.  I have used this system in some previous schools and staff were very positive about it.  Duty weeks generate a rota where you do a duty every day for a week – thus making plans to allow that to be a focus – but then do no duties at all in the other weeks.  Give it some thought.

  Data

The answer here is: Cut it right back.  You just do not need to collect so much data centrally at departmental level or whole-school level.  My challenge:  if you halved the number of data drops, what difference would it make?  Do it – try it – and see if you really, really need more data to know what is going on with students.

Meetings

Make every meeting count. One meeting per week can feel difficult to achieve if you factor in parents’ evenings, open days and all the rest – but it isn’t so much the number of meetings as the quality of them.  I suggest that most meetings should be designed around collaborative planning and CPD – and that’s about it.  Of course there is a need for open-ended discussion and for sharing information but most meetings should help to reduce workload by being productive rather than adding to it by leaving everyone with a list of tasks and no time.

I wish I had followed some of Andy Buck’s advise from Leadership Matters – having more meetings standing up, quickly agreeing a plan and then using the time saved to do the actions. Avoid dustbin syndrome:  setting an hour aside for a meeting and then filling it.

Always live type notes and minutes during a meeting. It’s so easy to do and saves hours of faffing afterwards.

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Ever been a form tutor?  It’s busy.   I remember the old days of collecting trip money but there is still a lot to do, especially if there is a programme of PSHE or reading to support and tutors have a role in backing up behaviour and rewards systems.  Alongside the day-to-day attendance monitoring and pastoral care, that’s about enough isn’t it? So, if you hear some say ‘we could get tutors to do it’, just stop them. They’re already busy.  There is a graveyard of failed initiatives across the system that have relied on tutors finding magic minutes.

Emails

Teachers  like freedom and trust when it comes to emails – but this needs to be balanced against workload.  I think email systems should have a gate-keeper who has a workload reduction brief.  Allstaff emails should only be sent by a small group – perhaps including the Head , a couple of deputies, the business manager and staff association rep?  This means you don’t get bombarded and you can control the culture about emails that require quick responses.   Personally, I prefer to manage my email when I want to in my own time – but I recognise sending emails out of office hours can be seen as stress-inducing. I think this needs serious consideration . Email traffic can be ludicrous and tackling it is a good place to look.

Cover

I imagine that most schools have moved toward a ‘rarely cover’ situation.  If not, then that is certainly the way to go. Aim for Zero Cover.  We’ve come a long way since the days of checking the cover board daily.

However, there is still scope for staff to help each other and the SLT to balance a healthy ‘family first’ culture, opportunities for CPD and keeping the cover budget under control.  This requires agreeing to cover each other on a reciprocal basis to oil the wheels of the system.  If you always expect supply cover, it simply means that fewer things can happen – because the money isn’t there.  In terms of workload, I find that it is much easier to liaise with a colleague than to set cover work and pick up the pieces after a lesson that has had supply cover.

And then there are these things:

It’s worth looking at this and holding O to their word.

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Assisting to finish the ultimate job obviously

When you are getting ready to head to college it is best to produce a record of things which you might want to consider with you. It's much better to go school well prepared rather of having to get in touch with your moms and dads for things you need every single 7 days. This retains very true if you are attending courses significantly from home. Higher education is full of quite a bit of pressure because the finest factor which you can do with regard to high school will be to get ready ahead of time. Keep away from procrastination constantly, as this can only insert into the stresses that you by now encounter. By accomplishing your do the job in advance of time, you can sense organized and arranged as university goes on.  Choose as quite a few credits as you can tackle at a person time. Most universities cost you for each credit, but only as many as twelve credits.  After which the rests in the credits in that semester are absolutely free. Using eighteen credits for each semester will depart you paying one-third significantly less than your peers with the similar training. One of several smartest things that you may do while you enter higher education is usually to map out the exact route of your respective plan prior to the very first of sophistication. This may provide you a fantastic notion of exactly where you have to be at what time, and in addition will decrease the frequency that you get lost. When you are getting difficulty determining approaches for tutorial accomplishment, find out if your higher education features a review techniques system. Many pupils are utilized to obtaining large grades with comparatively very little exertion in substantial school and should not be sure ways to examine for his or her faculty courses. Study competencies classes will help you learn how to proceed to reach class. Any time you are going to get a huge examination, make sure you take in an ample breakfast but retain it a bit gentle. You should not go into a exam hungry, or you can expect to have got a lot of problems concentrating. Tend not to overeat either; nonetheless, therefore you never have to deal with an upset belly. Usually strategy time for you to analyze and hold a set timetable for performing so. After you have obtained your course plan, it's best to timetable your examine time. That has a course and analyze schedule mapped out, you'll be able to create the kind framework that should aid you can get through just about every day and optimize your time. Ativador Cerebral Use on the net methods to study at home. Well-liked examine aids include Quizlet and Memrise. You can utilize these web-sites to create flashcards in your course. Usually, another person has previously made flashcards in your course or subject of examine. In this case, you should use what's previously available to study. When you are ready to take a exam, ensure that you have all essential screening supplies with you. Forgetting goods like a calculator or some crucial notes might make you really feel nervous or perhaps set you at a disadvantage throughout the examination. Persistently, the trainer is not going to have extras, so you really need to make sure to pack every thing you would like ahead of time. When choosing your big, assume with regards to the type of career you desire, but believe about the person that you are. For those who are somebody who would not choose to get up before noon, by way of example, you could not need to pick out a major wherever the task opportunities need you to operate early inside the morning. If you are choosing a serious, usually do not merely think about revenue. You are doing not need a career in something that you discover uninteresting or uninteresting. A sensible choice is really a key that could preserve you fascinated fifty or maybe more hrs per week for the relaxation of your respective life. Check out your passions. Saying no to things which make you uncomfortable is simply as critical in university since it was when you lived with the moms and dads. Many students experiment with liquor or sex through their faculty several years, however, if you do not want to do this stuff, don't enable everyone force you into them. Your faculty encounter should be about acquiring entertaining, discovering who that you are and making ready for the future via your classes--not about doing things you will not certainly choose to do. Become involved in as lots of things to do when you can if you are in faculty. The more functions that you simply participate in that reflect your various interests, the higher your résumé will appear inside the stop. Only do that which you can handle, as preserving your grades up could be the main target, of course. To learn more take a look at:

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Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters.

Image: Business Horse Power

Everyone is talking about workload and rightly so.  It’s even becoming a line of enquiry for inspections.  The folk up at Wizard of O HQ are banging on about it – because they are the new Good Guys –  and Headteachers now have an extra incentive to make sure they are doing something.  This time, happily, this bandwagon is something we can all agree is necessary.  Even though real terms budget cuts mean schools have fewer admin staff to make people’s lives easier and teachers have MaxPlus timetable loadings and bigger classes – making workload potentially harder to manage – there is still plenty that we can do.

Some workload issues require a major culture shift; some simply need us to rebalance the trade-off between the benefits of autonomy  and the benefits of working collaboratively within an agreed system; others need us to stop doing certain things altogether.

Here are some workload reduction approaches you might want to consider:

Marking

Change marking expectations explicitly and publicly.  Change all the language around marking  to feedback.  Make it clear that only specific pieces of work will be teacher marked.  Keep the marking very lean and very selective.  Introduce whole-class feedback as the default method replacing teacher red pen in books and don’t make your book scrutinies into marking-checks.  They are for looking at standards and progress.

During testing periods – like mock exams – cut back on the scale of each exam and be clear that test marking will replace other forms of marking during that period.

Remember – the learning impact of marking is very very low. If your main reason for maintaining an intense marking culture is parental expectations, then just tell them you’re changing things and explain why.

Planning

In my view, there is way too much duplication of effort across schools – and the nation (See this Reinventing the Wheel post).  If you are taking workload seriously you can make a big difference – and support setting standards – by making sure that every unit of work has one central scheme of work with one set of default resources: questions, reading, worksheets, slides etc. This then provides everyone with a backbone to deviate from if they choose to; if they have time.  But – it means that, at any time, you can use the standard materials without having to create anything extra most of the time.

For this to work, because teachers often don’t like using other people’s stuff, you need to produce as much of this as you can collaboratively with everyone contributing and, thus, developing important curriculum design skills.  Agree on the format and standards and don’t be too precious about sharing or about using materials other people have produced.   If you invest in this this year, it will make future years so much easier, replacing the culture of teachers scrabbling around making their own resources, making tests, planning good learning sequences etc.  This should all be there for you, allowing you to focus on how to deliver the lessons.

Reports

This is simple:  Ditch writing subject comments.  It’s a massive, massive workload burden with very little gain in terms of learning – alongside all the nonsense of creating ‘meaningful’ comments and the tedious, laborious proof-reading that is required.   If you do one overall tutor comment per year and report all subject progress through codes and grades, it cuts workload massively.  My son’s schools did this last year; it worked well. The Head wrote to explain and that was that.  It makes total sense.

Forms

Every time you make pro forma and think – it will only take a minute – multiply that by 100 and then ask whether you really need the information.  Are you asking because you genuinely want the information or is it really a form of control.  Keep information requests to an absolute minimum in the most streamlined format.

Duties

I don’t think schools can run safely without teachers doing duties. It’s always going to be part of the deal.  However, I recommend that staff consider switching to duty weeks instead of weekly duties.  I have used this system in some previous schools and staff were very positive about it.  Duty weeks generate a rota where you do a duty every day for a week – thus making plans to allow that to be a focus – but then do no duties at all in the other weeks.  Give it some thought.

  Data

The answer here is: Cut it right back.  You just do not need to collect so much data centrally at departmental level or whole-school level.  My challenge:  if you halved the number of data drops, what difference would it make?  Do it – try it – and see if you really, really need more data to know what is going on with students.

Meetings

Make every meeting count. One meeting per week can feel difficult to achieve if you factor in parents’ evenings, open days and all the rest – but it isn’t so much the number of meetings as the quality of them.  I suggest that most meetings should be designed around collaborative planning and CPD – and that’s about it.  Of course there is a need for open-ended discussion and for sharing information but most meetings should help to reduce workload by being productive rather than adding to it by leaving everyone with a list of tasks and no time.

I wish I had followed some of Andy Buck’s advise from Leadership Matters – having more meetings standing up, quickly agreeing a plan and then using the time saved to do the actions. Avoid dustbin syndrome:  setting an hour aside for a meeting and then filling it.

Always live type notes and minutes during a meeting. It’s so easy to do and saves hours of faffing afterwards.

Protect Tutors

Ever been a form tutor?  It’s busy.   I remember the old days of collecting trip money but there is still a lot to do, especially if there is a programme of PSHE or reading to support and tutors have a role in backing up behaviour and rewards systems.  Alongside the day-to-day attendance monitoring and pastoral care, that’s about enough isn’t it? So, if you hear some say ‘we could get tutors to do it’, just stop them. They’re already busy.  There is a graveyard of failed initiatives across the system that have relied on tutors finding magic minutes.

Emails

Teachers  like freedom and trust when it comes to emails – but this needs to be balanced against workload.  I think email systems should have a gate-keeper who has a workload reduction brief.  Allstaff emails should only be sent by a small group – perhaps including the Head , a couple of deputies, the business manager and staff association rep?  This means you don’t get bombarded and you can control the culture about emails that require quick responses.   Personally, I prefer to manage my email when I want to in my own time – but I recognise sending emails out of office hours can be seen as stress-inducing. I think this needs serious consideration . Email traffic can be ludicrous and tackling it is a good place to look.

Cover

I imagine that most schools have moved toward a ‘rarely cover’ situation.  If not, then that is certainly the way to go. Aim for Zero Cover.  We’ve come a long way since the days of checking the cover board daily.

However, there is still scope for staff to help each other and the SLT to balance a healthy ‘family first’ culture, opportunities for CPD and keeping the cover budget under control.  This requires agreeing to cover each other on a reciprocal basis to oil the wheels of the system.  If you always expect supply cover, it simply means that fewer things can happen – because the money isn’t there.  In terms of workload, I find that it is much easier to liaise with a colleague than to set cover work and pick up the pieces after a lesson that has had supply cover.

And then there are these things:

It’s worth looking at this and holding O to their word.

Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters. published first on http://ift.tt/2uVElOo

[careergrowthblog]

Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters.

Image: Business Horse Power

Everyone is talking about workload and rightly so.  It’s even becoming a line of enquiry for inspections.  The folk up at Wizard of O HQ are banging on about it – because they are the new Good Guys –  and Headteachers now have an extra incentive to make sure they are doing something.  This time, happily, this bandwagon is something we can all agree is necessary.  Even though real terms budget cuts mean schools have fewer admin staff to make people’s lives easier and teachers have MaxPlus timetable loadings and bigger classes – making workload potentially harder to manage – there is still plenty that we can do.

Some workload issues require a major culture shift; some simply need us to rebalance the trade-off between the benefits of autonomy  and the benefits of working collaboratively within an agreed system; others need us to stop doing certain things altogether.

Here are some workload reduction approaches you might want to consider:

Marking

Change marking expectations explicitly and publicly.  Change all the language around marking  to feedback.  Make it clear that only specific pieces of work will be teacher marked.  Keep the marking very lean and very selective.  Introduce whole-class feedback as the default method replacing teacher red pen in books and don’t make your book scrutinies into marking-checks.  They are for looking at standards and progress.

During testing periods – like mock exams – cut back on the scale of each exam and be clear that test marking will replace other forms of marking during that period.

Remember – the learning impact of marking is very very low. If your main reason for maintaining an intense marking culture is parental expectations, then just tell them you’re changing things and explain why.

Planning

In my view, there is way too much duplication of effort across schools – and the nation (See this Reinventing the Wheel post).  If you are taking workload seriously you can make a big difference – and support setting standards – by making sure that every unit of work has one central scheme of work with one set of default resources: questions, reading, worksheets, slides etc. This then provides everyone with a backbone to deviate from if they choose to; if they have time.  But – it means that, at any time, you can use the standard materials without having to create anything extra most of the time.

For this to work, because teachers often don’t like using other people’s stuff, you need to produce as much of this as you can collaboratively with everyone contributing and, thus, developing important curriculum design skills.  Agree on the format and standards and don’t be too precious about sharing or about using materials other people have produced.   If you invest in this this year, it will make future years so much easier, replacing the culture of teachers scrabbling around making their own resources, making tests, planning good learning sequences etc.  This should all be there for you, allowing you to focus on how to deliver the lessons.

Reports

This is simple:  Ditch writing subject comments.  It’s a massive, massive workload burden with very little gain in terms of learning – alongside all the nonsense of creating ‘meaningful’ comments and the tedious, laborious proof-reading that is required.   If you do one overall tutor comment per year and report all subject progress through codes and grades, it cuts workload massively.  My son’s schools did this last year; it worked well. The Head wrote to explain and that was that.  It makes total sense.

Forms

Every time you make pro forma and think – it will only take a minute – multiply that by 100 and then ask whether you really need the information.  Are you asking because you genuinely want the information or is it really a form of control.  Keep information requests to an absolute minimum in the most streamlined format.

Duties

I don’t think schools can run safely without teachers doing duties. It’s always going to be part of the deal.  However, I recommend that staff consider switching to duty weeks instead of weekly duties.  I have used this system in some previous schools and staff were very positive about it.  Duty weeks generate a rota where you do a duty every day for a week – thus making plans to allow that to be a focus – but then do no duties at all in the other weeks.  Give it some thought.

  Data

The answer here is: Cut it right back.  You just do not need to collect so much data centrally at departmental level or whole-school level.  My challenge:  if you halved the number of data drops, what difference would it make?  Do it – try it – and see if you really, really need more data to know what is going on with students.

Meetings

Make every meeting count. One meeting per week can feel difficult to achieve if you factor in parents’ evenings, open days and all the rest – but it isn’t so much the number of meetings as the quality of them.  I suggest that most meetings should be designed around collaborative planning and CPD – and that’s about it.  Of course there is a need for open-ended discussion and for sharing information but most meetings should help to reduce workload by being productive rather than adding to it by leaving everyone with a list of tasks and no time.

I wish I had followed some of Andy Buck’s advise from Leadership Matters – having more meetings standing up, quickly agreeing a plan and then using the time saved to do the actions. Avoid dustbin syndrome:  setting an hour aside for a meeting and then filling it.

Always live type notes and minutes during a meeting. It’s so easy to do and saves hours of faffing afterwards.

Protect Tutors

Ever been a form tutor?  It’s busy.   I remember the old days of collecting trip money but there is still a lot to do, especially if there is a programme of PSHE or reading to support and tutors have a role in backing up behaviour and rewards systems.  Alongside the day-to-day attendance monitoring and pastoral care, that’s about enough isn’t it? So, if you hear some say ‘we could get tutors to do it’, just stop them. They’re already busy.  There is a graveyard of failed initiatives across the system that have relied on tutors finding magic minutes.

Emails

Teachers  like freedom and trust when it comes to emails – but this needs to be balanced against workload.  I think email systems should have a gate-keeper who has a workload reduction brief.  Allstaff emails should only be sent by a small group – perhaps including the Head , a couple of deputies, the business manager and staff association rep?  This means you don’t get bombarded and you can control the culture about emails that require quick responses.   Personally, I prefer to manage my email when I want to in my own time – but I recognise sending emails out of office hours can be seen as stress-inducing. I think this needs serious consideration . Email traffic can be ludicrous and tackling it is a good place to look.

Cover

I imagine that most schools have moved toward a ‘rarely cover’ situation.  If not, then that is certainly the way to go. Aim for Zero Cover.  We’ve come a long way since the days of checking the cover board daily.

However, there is still scope for staff to help each other and the SLT to balance a healthy ‘family first’ culture, opportunities for CPD and keeping the cover budget under control.  This requires agreeing to cover each other on a reciprocal basis to oil the wheels of the system.  If you always expect supply cover, it simply means that fewer things can happen – because the money isn’t there.  In terms of workload, I find that it is much easier to liaise with a colleague than to set cover work and pick up the pieces after a lesson that has had supply cover.

And then there are these things:

It’s worth looking at this and holding O to their word.

Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters. published first on http://ift.tt/2uVElOo

[careergrowthblog]

Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters.

Image: Business Horse Power

Everyone is talking about workload and rightly so.  It’s even becoming a line of enquiry for inspections.  The folk up at Wizard of O HQ are banging on about it – because they are the new Good Guys –  and Headteachers now have an extra incentive to make sure they are doing something.  This time, happily, this bandwagon is something we can all agree is necessary.  Even though real terms budget cuts mean schools have fewer admin staff to make people’s lives easier and teachers have MaxPlus timetable loadings and bigger classes – making workload potentially harder to manage – there is still plenty that we can do.

Some workload issues require a major culture shift; some simply need us to rebalance the trade-off between the benefits of autonomy  and the benefits of working collaboratively within an agreed system; others need us to stop doing certain things altogether.

Here are some workload reduction approaches you might want to consider:

Marking

Change marking expectations explicitly and publicly.  Change all the language around marking  to feedback.  Make it clear that only specific pieces of work will be teacher marked.  Keep the marking very lean and very selective.  Introduce whole-class feedback as the default method replacing teacher red pen in books and don’t make your book scrutinies into marking-checks.  They are for looking at standards and progress.

During testing periods – like mock exams – cut back on the scale of each exam and be clear that test marking will replace other forms of marking during that period.

Remember – the learning impact of marking is very very low. If your main reason for maintaining an intense marking culture is parental expectations, then just tell them you’re changing things and explain why.

Planning

In my view, there is way too much duplication of effort across schools – and the nation (See this Reinventing the Wheel post).  If you are taking workload seriously you can make a big difference – and support setting standards – by making sure that every unit of work has one central scheme of work with one set of default resources: questions, reading, worksheets, slides etc. This then provides everyone with a backbone to deviate from if they choose to; if they have time.  But – it means that, at any time, you can use the standard materials without having to create anything extra most of the time.

For this to work, because teachers often don’t like using other people’s stuff, you need to produce as much of this as you can collaboratively with everyone contributing and, thus, developing important curriculum design skills.  Agree on the format and standards and don’t be too precious about sharing or about using materials other people have produced.   If you invest in this this year, it will make future years so much easier, replacing the culture of teachers scrabbling around making their own resources, making tests, planning good learning sequences etc.  This should all be there for you, allowing you to focus on how to deliver the lessons.

Reports

This is simple:  Ditch writing subject comments.  It’s a massive, massive workload burden with very little gain in terms of learning – alongside all the nonsense of creating ‘meaningful’ comments and the tedious, laborious proof-reading that is required.   If you do one overall tutor comment per year and report all subject progress through codes and grades, it cuts workload massively.  My son’s schools did this last year; it worked well. The Head wrote to explain and that was that.  It makes total sense.

Forms

Every time you make pro forma and think – it will only take a minute – multiply that by 100 and then ask whether you really need the information.  Are you asking because you genuinely want the information or is it really a form of control.  Keep information requests to an absolute minimum in the most streamlined format.

Duties

I don’t think schools can run safely without teachers doing duties. It’s always going to be part of the deal.  However, I recommend that staff consider switching to duty weeks instead of weekly duties.  I have used this system in some previous schools and staff were very positive about it.  Duty weeks generate a rota where you do a duty every day for a week – thus making plans to allow that to be a focus – but then do no duties at all in the other weeks.  Give it some thought.

  Data

The answer here is: Cut it right back.  You just do not need to collect so much data centrally at departmental level or whole-school level.  My challenge:  if you halved the number of data drops, what difference would it make?  Do it – try it – and see if you really, really need more data to know what is going on with students.

Meetings

Make every meeting count. One meeting per week can feel difficult to achieve if you factor in parents’ evenings, open days and all the rest – but it isn’t so much the number of meetings as the quality of them.  I suggest that most meetings should be designed around collaborative planning and CPD – and that’s about it.  Of course there is a need for open-ended discussion and for sharing information but most meetings should help to reduce workload by being productive rather than adding to it by leaving everyone with a list of tasks and no time.

I wish I had followed some of Andy Buck’s advise from Leadership Matters – having more meetings standing up, quickly agreeing a plan and then using the time saved to do the actions. Avoid dustbin syndrome:  setting an hour aside for a meeting and then filling it.

Always live type notes and minutes during a meeting. It’s so easy to do and saves hours of faffing afterwards.

Protect Tutors

Ever been a form tutor?  It’s busy.   I remember the old days of collecting trip money but there is still a lot to do, especially if there is a programme of PSHE or reading to support and tutors have a role in backing up behaviour and rewards systems.  Alongside the day-to-day attendance monitoring and pastoral care, that’s about enough isn’t it? So, if you hear some say ‘we could get tutors to do it’, just stop them. They’re already busy.  There is a graveyard of failed initiatives across the system that have relied on tutors finding magic minutes.

Emails

Teachers  like freedom and trust when it comes to emails – but this needs to be balanced against workload.  I think email systems should have a gate-keeper who has a workload reduction brief.  Allstaff emails should only be sent by a small group – perhaps including the Head , a couple of deputies, the business manager and staff association rep?  This means you don’t get bombarded and you can control the culture about emails that require quick responses.   Personally, I prefer to manage my email when I want to in my own time – but I recognise sending emails out of office hours can be seen as stress-inducing. I think this needs serious consideration . Email traffic can be ludicrous and tackling it is a good place to look.

Cover

I imagine that most schools have moved toward a ‘rarely cover’ situation.  If not, then that is certainly the way to go. Aim for Zero Cover.  We’ve come a long way since the days of checking the cover board daily.

However, there is still scope for staff to help each other and the SLT to balance a healthy ‘family first’ culture, opportunities for CPD and keeping the cover budget under control.  This requires agreeing to cover each other on a reciprocal basis to oil the wheels of the system.  If you always expect supply cover, it simply means that fewer things can happen – because the money isn’t there.  In terms of workload, I find that it is much easier to liaise with a colleague than to set cover work and pick up the pieces after a lesson that has had supply cover.

And then there are these things:

It’s worth looking at this and holding O to their word.

Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters. published first on http://ift.tt/2uVElOo

[careergrowthblog]

Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters.

Image: Business Horse Power

Everyone is talking about workload and rightly so.  It’s even becoming a line of enquiry for inspections.  The folk up at Wizard of O HQ are banging on about it – because they are the new Good Guys –  and Headteachers now have an extra incentive to make sure they are doing something.  This time, happily, this bandwagon is something we can all agree is necessary.  Even though real terms budget cuts mean schools have fewer admin staff to make people’s lives easier and teachers have MaxPlus timetable loadings and bigger classes – making workload potentially harder to manage – there is still plenty that we can do.

Some workload issues require a major culture shift; some simply need us to rebalance the trade-off between the benefits of autonomy  and the benefits of working collaboratively within an agreed system; others need us to stop doing certain things altogether.

Here are some workload reduction approaches you might want to consider:

Marking

Change marking expectations explicitly and publicly.  Change all the language around marking  to feedback.  Make it clear that only specific pieces of work will be teacher marked.  Keep the marking very lean and very selective.  Introduce whole-class feedback as the default method replacing teacher red pen in books and don’t make your book scrutinies into marking-checks.  They are for looking at standards and progress.

During testing periods – like mock exams – cut back on the scale of each exam and be clear that test marking will replace other forms of marking during that period.

Remember – the learning impact of marking is very very low. If your main reason for maintaining an intense marking culture is parental expectations, then just tell them you’re changing things and explain why.

Planning

In my view, there is way too much duplication of effort across schools – and the nation (See this Reinventing the Wheel post).  If you are taking workload seriously you can make a big difference – and support setting standards – by making sure that every unit of work has one central scheme of work with one set of default resources: questions, reading, worksheets, slides etc. This then provides everyone with a backbone to deviate from if they choose to; if they have time.  But – it means that, at any time, you can use the standard materials without having to create anything extra most of the time.

For this to work, because teachers often don’t like using other people’s stuff, you need to produce as much of this as you can collaboratively with everyone contributing and, thus, developing important curriculum design skills.  Agree on the format and standards and don’t be too precious about sharing or about using materials other people have produced.   If you invest in this this year, it will make future years so much easier, replacing the culture of teachers scrabbling around making their own resources, making tests, planning good learning sequences etc.  This should all be there for you, allowing you to focus on how to deliver the lessons.

Reports

This is simple:  Ditch writing subject comments.  It’s a massive, massive workload burden with very little gain in terms of learning – alongside all the nonsense of creating ‘meaningful’ comments and the tedious, laborious proof-reading that is required.   If you do one overall tutor comment per year and report all subject progress through codes and grades, it cuts workload massively.  My son’s schools did this last year; it worked well. The Head wrote to explain and that was that.  It makes total sense.

Forms

Every time you make pro forma and think – it will only take a minute – multiply that by 100 and then ask whether you really need the information.  Are you asking because you genuinely want the information or is it really a form of control.  Keep information requests to an absolute minimum in the most streamlined format.

Duties

I don’t think schools can run safely without teachers doing duties. It’s always going to be part of the deal.  However, I recommend that staff consider switching to duty weeks instead of weekly duties.  I have used this system in some previous schools and staff were very positive about it.  Duty weeks generate a rota where you do a duty every day for a week – thus making plans to allow that to be a focus – but then do no duties at all in the other weeks.  Give it some thought.

  Data

The answer here is: Cut it right back.  You just do not need to collect so much data centrally at departmental level or whole-school level.  My challenge:  if you halved the number of data drops, what difference would it make?  Do it – try it – and see if you really, really need more data to know what is going on with students.

Meetings

Make every meeting count. One meeting per week can feel difficult to achieve if you factor in parents’ evenings, open days and all the rest – but it isn’t so much the number of meetings as the quality of them.  I suggest that most meetings should be designed around collaborative planning and CPD – and that’s about it.  Of course there is a need for open-ended discussion and for sharing information but most meetings should help to reduce workload by being productive rather than adding to it by leaving everyone with a list of tasks and no time.

I wish I had followed some of Andy Buck’s advise from Leadership Matters – having more meetings standing up, quickly agreeing a plan and then using the time saved to do the actions. Avoid dustbin syndrome:  setting an hour aside for a meeting and then filling it.

Always live type notes and minutes during a meeting. It’s so easy to do and saves hours of faffing afterwards.

Protect Tutors

Ever been a form tutor?  It’s busy.   I remember the old days of collecting trip money but there is still a lot to do, especially if there is a programme of PSHE or reading to support and tutors have a role in backing up behaviour and rewards systems.  Alongside the day-to-day attendance monitoring and pastoral care, that’s about enough isn’t it? So, if you hear some say ‘we could get tutors to do it’, just stop them. They’re already busy.  There is a graveyard of failed initiatives across the system that have relied on tutors finding magic minutes.

Emails

Teachers  like freedom and trust when it comes to emails – but this needs to be balanced against workload.  I think email systems should have a gate-keeper who has a workload reduction brief.  Allstaff emails should only be sent by a small group – perhaps including the Head , a couple of deputies, the business manager and staff association rep?  This means you don’t get bombarded and you can control the culture about emails that require quick responses.   Personally, I prefer to manage my email when I want to in my own time – but I recognise sending emails out of office hours can be seen as stress-inducing. I think this needs serious consideration . Email traffic can be ludicrous and tackling it is a good place to look.

Cover

I imagine that most schools have moved toward a ‘rarely cover’ situation.  If not, then that is certainly the way to go. Aim for Zero Cover.  We’ve come a long way since the days of checking the cover board daily.

However, there is still scope for staff to help each other and the SLT to balance a healthy ‘family first’ culture, opportunities for CPD and keeping the cover budget under control.  This requires agreeing to cover each other on a reciprocal basis to oil the wheels of the system.  If you always expect supply cover, it simply means that fewer things can happen – because the money isn’t there.  In terms of workload, I find that it is much easier to liaise with a colleague than to set cover work and pick up the pieces after a lesson that has had supply cover.

And then there are these things:

It’s worth looking at this and holding O to their word.

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Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters.

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Everyone is talking about workload and rightly so.  It’s even becoming a line of enquiry for inspections.  The folk up at Wizard of O HQ are banging on about it – because they are the new Good Guys –  and Headteachers now have an extra incentive to make sure they are doing something.  This time, happily, this bandwagon is something we can all agree is necessary.  Even though real terms budget cuts mean schools have fewer admin staff to make people’s lives easier and teachers have MaxPlus timetable loadings and bigger classes – making workload potentially harder to manage – there is still plenty that we can do.

Some workload issues require a major culture shift; some simply need us to rebalance the trade-off between the benefits of autonomy  and the benefits of working collaboratively within an agreed system; others need us to stop doing certain things altogether.

Here are some workload reduction approaches you might want to consider:

Marking

Change marking expectations explicitly and publicly.  Change all the language around marking  to feedback.  Make it clear that only specific pieces of work will be teacher marked.  Keep the marking very lean and very selective.  Introduce whole-class feedback as the default method replacing teacher red pen in books and don’t make your book scrutinies into marking-checks.  They are for looking at standards and progress.

During testing periods – like mock exams – cut back on the scale of each exam and be clear that test marking will replace other forms of marking during that period.

Remember – the learning impact of marking is very very low. If your main reason for maintaining an intense marking culture is parental expectations, then just tell them you’re changing things and explain why.

Planning

In my view, there is way too much duplication of effort across schools – and the nation (See this Reinventing the Wheel post).  If you are taking workload seriously you can make a big difference – and support setting standards – by making sure that every unit of work has one central scheme of work with one set of default resources: questions, reading, worksheets, slides etc. This then provides everyone with a backbone to deviate from if they choose to; if they have time.  But – it means that, at any time, you can use the standard materials without having to create anything extra most of the time.

For this to work, because teachers often don’t like using other people’s stuff, you need to produce as much of this as you can collaboratively with everyone contributing and, thus, developing important curriculum design skills.  Agree on the format and standards and don’t be too precious about sharing or about using materials other people have produced.   If you invest in this this year, it will make future years so much easier, replacing the culture of teachers scrabbling around making their own resources, making tests, planning good learning sequences etc.  This should all be there for you, allowing you to focus on how to deliver the lessons.

Reports

This is simple:  Ditch writing subject comments.  It’s a massive, massive workload burden with very little gain in terms of learning – alongside all the nonsense of creating ‘meaningful’ comments and the tedious, laborious proof-reading that is required.   If you do one overall tutor comment per year and report all subject progress through codes and grades, it cuts workload massively.  My son’s schools did this last year; it worked well. The Head wrote to explain and that was that.  It makes total sense.

Forms

Every time you make pro forma and think – it will only take a minute – multiply that by 100 and then ask whether you really need the information.  Are you asking because you genuinely want the information or is it really a form of control.  Keep information requests to an absolute minimum in the most streamlined format.

Duties

I don’t think schools can run safely without teachers doing duties. It’s always going to be part of the deal.  However, I recommend that staff consider switching to duty weeks instead of weekly duties.  I have used this system in some previous schools and staff were very positive about it.  Duty weeks generate a rota where you do a duty every day for a week – thus making plans to allow that to be a focus – but then do no duties at all in the other weeks.  Give it some thought.

  Data

The answer here is: Cut it right back.  You just do not need to collect so much data centrally at departmental level or whole-school level.  My challenge:  if you halved the number of data drops, what difference would it make?  Do it – try it – and see if you really, really need more data to know what is going on with students.

Meetings

Make every meeting count. One meeting per week can feel difficult to achieve if you factor in parents’ evenings, open days and all the rest – but it isn’t so much the number of meetings as the quality of them.  I suggest that most meetings should be designed around collaborative planning and CPD – and that’s about it.  Of course there is a need for open-ended discussion and for sharing information but most meetings should help to reduce workload by being productive rather than adding to it by leaving everyone with a list of tasks and no time.

I wish I had followed some of Andy Buck’s advise from Leadership Matters – having more meetings standing up, quickly agreeing a plan and then using the time saved to do the actions. Avoid dustbin syndrome:  setting an hour aside for a meeting and then filling it.

Always live type notes and minutes during a meeting. It’s so easy to do and saves hours of faffing afterwards.

Protect Tutors

Ever been a form tutor?  It’s busy.   I remember the old days of collecting trip money but there is still a lot to do, especially if there is a programme of PSHE or reading to support and tutors have a role in backing up behaviour and rewards systems.  Alongside the day-to-day attendance monitoring and pastoral care, that’s about enough isn’t it? So, if you hear some say ‘we could get tutors to do it’, just stop them. They’re already busy.  There is a graveyard of failed initiatives across the system that have relied on tutors finding magic minutes.

Emails

Teachers  like freedom and trust when it comes to emails – but this needs to be balanced against workload.  I think email systems should have a gate-keeper who has a workload reduction brief.  Allstaff emails should only be sent by a small group – perhaps including the Head , a couple of deputies, the business manager and staff association rep?  This means you don’t get bombarded and you can control the culture about emails that require quick responses.   Personally, I prefer to manage my email when I want to in my own time – but I recognise sending emails out of office hours can be seen as stress-inducing. I think this needs serious consideration . Email traffic can be ludicrous and tackling it is a good place to look.

Cover

I imagine that most schools have moved toward a ‘rarely cover’ situation.  If not, then that is certainly the way to go. Aim for Zero Cover.  We’ve come a long way since the days of checking the cover board daily.

However, there is still scope for staff to help each other and the SLT to balance a healthy ‘family first’ culture, opportunities for CPD and keeping the cover budget under control.  This requires agreeing to cover each other on a reciprocal basis to oil the wheels of the system.  If you always expect supply cover, it simply means that fewer things can happen – because the money isn’t there.  In terms of workload, I find that it is much easier to liaise with a colleague than to set cover work and pick up the pieces after a lesson that has had supply cover.

And then there are these things:

It’s worth looking at this and holding O to their word.

Tackle Workload. This bandwagon actually matters. published first on http://ift.tt/2uVElOo