Everyone has a system for keeping track of their work.
Now, you may have an incomplete system.
Or you may have a system you only use sometimes.
Or you may have too many systems.
But when your principal comes into your classroom and tells you that you need to
test your students' reading levels, you already do something with that task.
You may write it on a sticky.
You might email it to yourself.
Or maybe you just hope you'll remember.
The point is you have some kind of reaction, and
that reaction is part of your system.
Now let me take a second to address what I see as a common misperception.
Let's not think that organization and togetherness are synonyms.
I actually don't love the term organize.
Now I know I used it in the title of this course, but
now that you're enrolled, I can tell you the truth.
I prefer togetherness.
It encapsulates everything.
Prioritizing, planning, efficiency, follow through and more.
Most of us are naturally better at certain aspects of togetherness, and
we need more support in other areas.
Me too.
When I was a full time teacher, I would have strongly agreed with
this statement about my colleagues considering me responsive.