Managing Lots of Preps with Sophie Forker

06/01/2025 20 min Temporada 1 Episodio 178
Managing Lots of Preps with Sophie Forker

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#178How many preps do you have?  If you have 3, 4 or more, or know someone who does, stick around for this episode. Oftentimes we equate 3 or more preps with 3 or 4 times the work. In this episode Sophie Forker, a French and Spanish teacher in New York City, joins me for a conversation about managing our teacher workload. We talk specifically about navigating a large number of preps, but it ultimately comes down to useful and actionable ways to streamline your lesson planning, whether you have 1 prep or 6. Topics in this Episode:Sophie's personal experience of  having multiple prepseffective strategies for planning and organizing multiple language preps to ensure you stay on top of your workloadhow to  prioritize planning and ensure that each class receives the attention it needs without becoming overwhelmedtools, resources and systems to streamline your preparation process and make it more efficientpractical strategies for effectively managing multiple world language preps in your own classrooms and maintaining a balanced workloadEpisode #79: How to do a Write and Discuss with Ben Fisher-RodriguezConnect with Sophie Forker:Instagram: @mmeforker Connect with Joshua and the World Language Classroom Community: wlclassrom.comX (aka Twitter):  @wlclassroomThreads: @wlclassroomInstagram:  @wlclassroomFacebook:  /wlclassroomWLClassroom Facebook Group__________________________Interested in having Joshua work directly with your department, school or district?  Look at options for collaborating in person or remotely.______________________________Sign up for Talking Points to get  tips, tools and resources for your language teaching.______________________________Join Joshua as a guest on the podcast.______________________________Join Joshua for a Leveling Up Coaching Episode  on the podcast.  Send me a text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast.