Online instruction, like any career working from home, requires you to carefully manage your time, set boundaries, and actively cultivate a healthy work-life balance. In this Discussion, you examine time management challenges and explore effective strategies to help you address them successfully.
To Prepare:
Review the media piece, Voices from the Field: Effective Online Instructors. Consider the different strategies for meeting the demands of online teaching while balancing personal responsibilities.
By Day 3 of Week 9
Citing from the literature, post your responses to the following:
In what ways could your personal responsibilities and your work as an online instructor interact, overlap, or conflict? What challenges do you expect to face? How will you set and enforce boundaries? How can you ensure that you maintain a comfortable work-life balance?
Describe your plan for completing your workload as an online instructor in a timely and professional manner each week. What changes might you need to make to your current priorities? What strategies can you employ to position yourself for success?