The Teaching Space

Episode 38 of The Teaching Space Podcast explores some strategies and ideas on how you can concentrate more and be distracted less.  Introduction One of the biggest challenges of being a teacher or trainer is that we have such small gaps of time between sessions to get non-teaching work done. As a result, we attract more interruptions than most! (Perhaps not “more”, it’s just they are condensed into a shorter space of time). We also have a tendency to get distracted easily (again, because we are required to get focussed quickly and we don’t have long). Distractions and interruptions fall into two categories: people and things. I will tackle both together. My Top Six Here are my top six workplace distractions and interruptions, and techniques for managing them. 1. People (Physical Interruptions) When someone walks over to your desk to talk to you, stand up. This sends the message you don’t have time for a casual visit and will help them realise they need to get to their point quickly. When interrupted, state