Course Summary
How to Manage Your Time and Energy as a Teacher is a 45-minute professional learning course that invites educators to reflect on how they manage their time, and how time impacts their wellbeing and professional fulfilment. Teaching is fast-paced and often overwhelming, but this course helps you take a step back and reconsider how you can work with time, rather than against it.
You’ll explore strategies to reduce feelings of busyness, reconnect with what matters most in your work, and create space for the relationships and experiences that bring meaning to your day. A reflective, empowering course for teachers looking to reclaim time and reduce overwhelm.
You will learn:
- To understand that there are many ways to think about time
- To recognise the way time is used to manage and manipulate
- To reflect on your chronodiversity and how to use different ways of thinking about time
- To learn about techniques and approaches to help you address the stress and overwhelm that comes with a poor relationship with time.
Note: Chronodiversity is a way to describe the different ways we experience time. Time, as in weeks, days, hours, and minutes, is different from experiencing time as four terms in a year. We might experience it as the four seasons or, for other cultures, seven or eight seasons. Archaeologists and paleontologists try to connect to deep time that spans tens of thousands to millions of years.
Course time:
About 30 to 45 minutes - perfect for after work or during a spare period. You will have ongoing access via your user dashboard.
Alignment to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards:
This course is mapped to the following Australian Professional Teacher Standards (AITSL). Your completion can be logged as elective PD hours with your state's teaching regulatory authority.
- 6.2.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
- 6.3.2 Engage with colleagues and improve practice
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Course Content
Rethinking Our Precious Time
Course Instructors
Hayley Sommeling-Farrugia is an experienced Early Years Educator, Primary School Teacher, and Instructional Designer for Cool. Hayley is an expert at developing content that considers the educational journey from start to finish, as she knows first-hand the experiences, knowledge and challenges of the educators.
Daniel Donahoo's work is driven by play, technology and narrative. An experienced educator and author specialising in books centred around families, media, and technology. He wrote “Idolising Children” and (co-author) “Adproofing Your Kids”. Daniele writes and blogs regularly on the topics of technology, children, education and families.
This course has been designed in consultation with experts in the fields of education and wellbeing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I log this PD with my State's teaching authority?
Yes! Our courses are mapped to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards (AITSL), and your completion can be logged as elective PD hours with your state's teaching regulatory authority. To do this, grab your certificate of completion from your personal dashboard once the course is complete.
- 6.2.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
- 6.3.2 Engage with colleagues and improve practice
How long will this take to complete?
About 30 to 45 minutes - perfect for after work or during a spare period. You will have ongoing access via your user dashboard.
How does it work?
This course is on-demand and for private study. Learn at your own pace and at times that suit you. Get a certificate when you finish. You will have ongoing access.
Is this course accredited?
While this course is not accredited by state teaching authorities, it is mapped to the national Professional Standards for Teachers. This means that you can log this course with your state regulatory authority as elective PD hours.
- 6.2.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
- 6.3.2 Engage with colleagues and improve practice
Who are the instructors?
This course is designed in consultation with teachers, principals, psychologists, counsellors, scientists, and all manner of experts in the education field.
Cool.org's curriculum team continually reviews and refines our resources to be in line with changes to the Australian Curriculum and best educational practice, so you can be sure your learning is at the cutting edge of education theory.
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