This April 23, 2013 webinar provided practical strategies teachers may use to make the most of the time spent with students in class and time invested in serving students outside of the regular classroom hours. Based on time management tips from business experts as well as over 30 years of instructional experience, this webinar provides a proactive approach to manage time well. Topics covered included establishing goals and setting priorities; recognizing classroom time wasters and implementing strategies to defeat them; saving time outside of class; and how technology can help instructors save time.

2. Time Management Tips for
Instructors

3. 1.Establishing Priorities
2.Classroom Time-Wasters and How to Address
them

4. In what modality do you typically teach?
A.Face-to-face on campus
B.Online courses
C.Blended courses that combine online and face-to face
in a single course
D.I teach in multiple modalities
Poll Question

5. Which of the following “timewasters” do you
have to deal with regularly? Select all that
apply.
A. Unproductive meetings
B. Seemingly useless paperwork
C. Things designed only for compliance that add no value to the
student
D. I never waste time
Poll Question

6. Institutional Goals
Program-Specific Goals
Course Goals
Class Meeting Goals
Setting Priorities

7. • Tardiness
• Absenteeism
• Renting rather than Owning
• Not paying attention
• Not understanding
• Not taking responsibility
• Not on the same level as classmates
Student Challenges

8. Which of the these student behaviors present the biggest
challenge to you? (Select One)
•Tardiness
•Absenteeism
•Unpreparedness
•Not paying attention
•Not understanding
•Not taking responsibility
•Not on the same level as classmates
Poll Question

9. The most effective way to ensure the time you
have with students is valuable is organize the
educational experience effectively.
Develop a strategy for each potential “time
bandit” before you need use the strategy.
Organization is Key

10. Rewarding the behaviors you want!
 Review activities for that day’s test
 Review activities and handouts for
next week’s test
 Graded participation activities
 Treats / Raffle Tickets / Fun Stuff
These strategies also apply at the end
of the class to reward those who
stay.
Tardiness

11. Sometime students want the class to stop so
they can catch up.
• Rewarding promptness
• Greeting and Seating
• Alternative exercises
Preplan what you will have them do.
Tardiness

12. Modifying behavior you do not want!
 The “evil eye” (sort of)
 Limited make-up opportunities (points off?)
 Proactive advising
 Don’t stop the lesson
 Stay after / Come early
Tardiness

13. Absenteeism
Sometimes have good reasons for missing
class.
Sometimes they do not.
Absent students should be expected to keep
up! Make it easy for them to know what to
do.

14. Achieve a Balance!
“Too tough or too easy?”
 We do not want to make it impossible for students
who miss for legitimate reasons to make up work.
 We do not want to make it too easy for students
who just skip to make up work.
Absenteeism

15. Achieve a Balance!
 Phone call or email from the student on day of
absence
 Email assignments to instructor
 Drop off assignments to Dean or Registrar
Absenteeism

16. Achieve a Balance!
 Point reduction scale
 Test make-up schedule
 Alternative course assignments to earn
back participation points
 Drop the lowest quiz score(s)
Absenteeism

17. Renters
How can we get students to take responsibility
for their learning?
• Be sure they know what you expect from them
• Provide pathways to success

18. Renters
How can we get students to take responsibility
for their learning?
•Be sure they are aware of all the tools available to
them
•Consider “second chances”
•Ask questions
 How did you prepare?
 Did you try ….?
 What else can I do to help you?

19. Give ChoicesGive Choices
Allow students input into decisions about
what they will do to master the objectives.
Decisions can be collective or individual,
though individual decisions impact motivation
more strongly.
Renters

20. Give ChoicesGive Choices
 Which assignments to do?
 Oral or written reports?
 Individual or group projects?
 More or fewer tests or test
items?
 Essay or objective tests?
Renters

21. Provide OptionsProvide Options
Students are far more likely to take
ownership and responsibility if they
have:
 Choices
 A sense of control
 Personal participation

22. Chat Time
What is the single most important thing you
would like your students to learn?
(Please send responses to All Panelists)
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23. More Thoughts
• Everything does not have to be graded
• Build reusable instructional materials
• Handouts
• Lesson Plans
• Tests
• Discussion Questions
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24. More Thoughts
• Leverage Technology
• Gradebooks
• Ancillary Resources
• Develop standard conventions
• Test generators
• Publisher resources
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25. More Thoughts
• Develop Self-Service Strategies
• Turning in assignments
• Make-up work
• Absentee notifications
• Webpages
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26. Time Savings with Aplia

27. Founded by an Instructor

28. Auto-graded Assignments

29. Additional Review

30. Analytics

31. Course Care