Outstanding teachers serve their students by guiding them through their coursework and motivating them to complete program requirements. Instructors at educational institutions are often faced with high stress resulting from heavy teaching loads and limited time. When teachers cannot manage their own time and stress, they cannot fully serve the needs of their students. This course will show instructors how to manage time and stress in their lives and teach some of these skills to their students.

Module 1: Taking Control of Your Time

• Identify obstacles that get in the way of good time management.
• Create a list of personal and professional tasks that need to be completed.
• Describe how to set limits to involvement in certain tasks and to prioritize others depending on task importance and urgency.

Module 2: Making More Time for You

• Streamline the process of lecture preparation.
• Design exams and homework assignments that can be graded quickly.
• Use technology to save time when completing tasks.
• Organize teaching materials so that they can be rapidly accessed.
• Accomplish clerical tasks more effectively.

Module 3: What's Stressing You Out?

• Define stress.
• Define the causes of stress.
• Describe the consequences of living with stress.
• Identify particular stressors that affect your personal and professional life.

Module 4: The Road to Stress Free Living

• Determine which stressors can be eliminated and /or reduced in your life.
• Describe how to eliminate certain stressors.
• Describe how to reduce the stressors that can't be eliminated.
• Identify coping mechanisms that can be used for stressors that cannot be eliminated or reduced.
• Assist students to gain some of these time management and stress reduction skills.