- Priorities = Time Management.
Priorities define time management. Being an instructor/teacher might appear to some as an occupation, vocation or profession that operates on a clock. Sure, school/class starts at 0700 and ends at 1500 with a 30-minute lunch and 10-minute breaks at each hour. The demands of being an instructor/teacher reach beyond those times, so it is incumbent for each teacher/instructor to establish priorities within those time constraints. Instructor/teachers have to also build in flex-time so they can address issues that do not perfectly fall in place with a defined schedule. Previously described is a 9-hour day of which is only class time. It does not account for one-on-one student challenges, administrative issues, facility malfunctions, unscheduled meetings, etc. These external encounters are in-fact, part of the training/class “synopsis” and as such require having time built into a given day to address appropriately.
