Task Prioritization ADHD Tool for Teachers

Looking for a way to make your teaching life less overwhelming?

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Teaching is hard enough. Teaching with ADHD can feel… impossible sometimes.

I get it. The endless to-do lists. The papers waiting to be graded.

The lessons that need planning. The meetings you can't forget.

(All the enjoyable meetings! Just delightful, really.)

Plus the emotional and energetic tolls this grueling (though potentially rewarding) job can bring.

All while your brain is pulling you in a dozen different directions.

Free Task Prioritization ADHD Tool for Teachers

That's why I created this tool – because I needed it too.

Because things are pretty gnarly in a lot of ways these days.

No one needs more to add to their plates, right?

You need something to offload some of your dozens of daily decisions.

(I recently heard teachers make over 1500 of them a day! Sounds a bit low…What do you think?)

Anything that helps break down those complex tasks into smaller pieces without too much effort.

Most people know that planners and ADHDers don't really ‘get along.'

But what they don't always know is how difficult that can be for teachers.

It was a long, drawn-out process for me to find systems and tools that worked.

If you're ADHD, are you nodding your head right about now?

There was a bullet journal…lined notebooks…color coding systems…digital apps…

Ringed notebooks, sticky notes, flashcards, writing myself emails…

(Okay, maybe I still do some of these.)

Oh man, and what about writing on our hands? Yikes, definitely don't do that one anymore.

Sure, each of those would work for a while.

But not too much later, their shine would wear off.

And I'd be left trying to remember what class was next and what we were working on in our staff meeting this afternoon.

You know that feeling when you finally sit down to grade papers?

But then your mind remembers allllllll the other things you've been meaning to do?

You remember you didn't email back that one parent, or sign up for a dish to bring to the potluck.

You realize you didn't switch the laundry over or pack your kid a new snack.

(He's still got the warm string cheese in his bag from yesterday.)

You forget all about the grading and by the time you remember, your lunch break is almost over anyway…

So you scroll on your phone.

I'm sure you've never done that, right? No one wastes time that way anymore…

Anyway, what I didn't need was another neurotypical person telling me that I just needed to try harder, or be more organized.

But having a tool like this one that I made for you?

Would have been a game changer!

Because it's all about finding what works for you.

Tweaking it, and doing it again.

I don't know about you, but prioritizing tasks and breaking them down into their smallest parts is not really what I consider fun.

Lucky for us, we have this tool to get us started.

Try the free ADHD Task Prioritization Tool

So you're ready to start!

Just tell the tool what's on your plate right now, how much time you have, and when it needs to be done.

In a matter of mere seconds, you'll get back:

• Your overwhelming task broken into manageable pieces
• Steps arranged by what needs attention first
• Time estimates that work with your schedule
• Beginning points that are designed to get you started

No more staring at your to-do list wondering where to begin.

No more putting things off until the last minute because they feel too big to tackle.

Well, I mean you can, if you want to.

But now you have a tool that can help you push back on those habits.

To start moving the needle in a different direction.

Everyone's situation is unique, so please adapt this and use it with common sense as well.

So what do you think?!

Fill it out, and let's get going!

I can't wait to hear from you about how it helped you.

And all that you accomplished.

Just remember that even if you have tools that work for you, it's still you who is doing the work.

So give yourself a pat on the back because self-accommodations are so important when it comes to ADHD.

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Want to learn how to make tools like this? RightBlogger's Tool Studio is the easiest place to make your own tools to embed on your website.

Want to learn more about executive functions? Check out this information from CHADD.