Category: work life balance

OneNote as a Planning Tool

I have set my 2019 planner up using OneNote with the help of this blog. Getting organised helps me feel like I’m working towards a healthier work life balance and improving my wellbeing.

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I have been speaking to a number of teachers at school about the use of OneNote and I have been meaning to write about how OneNote has merged into my day-to-day teaching. I thought about the main ways in which I use it:

  1. For day-to-day planning (effectively replacing my paper planner)
  2. In lessons as a teaching tool (almost a replacement for ActivInspire)
  3. For storing and marking work through the Content Library and Class OneNote functions
  4. For creating long-term plans, unit plans and collating resources for future units of work
  5. For continued professional development

I thought I would compile a quick series of posts on each one of these uses.

OneNote as my Planner

I started using OneNote personally before I started trying to integrate it into my teaching. I was already using a table format in Word to plan my maths lessons and started to see others at school using OneNote…

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New Year New Me!

Well it’s been just over two weeks since I was in the classroom. It would appear a change really is as good as a rest as despite the challenges Christmas can bring, I actually feel very rested. My mood feels lifted, I feel like I have both the time and motivation to exercise and consider what I am eating and drinking. I never thought I would consider giving up teaching after less than five years particularly as I gave up so much to enter the profession in the first place.

Do any other teachers feel the same way?