Teachers are renowned for having organisational skills with no parallel – however, there is always room for improvement! Have a read through these tips for some ideas on streamlining your time management for a busy teaching day.

Firstly, the dreaded paperwork mountain. One way to really refine your time spent on paperwork is to have a rule of touching a piece of paper only once. As soon as it hits your hand, decide whether it is important enough to keep (and file away straight away!) or read and recycle. If you get into the habit of dealing with paperwork quickly, you will find that it piles up less.

Another key idea is to attempt to go paperless as much as possible. There are myriad apps available for organisational purposes, including several designed with teachers in mind. Lots of schools use iPads, so why not see if there is an app to help you out. There are apps which double up as diaries and markbooks, can take simple registers and be used to record planning and assessment data. All of this can easily reduce the pile of papers on a desk!