If you have ended your day as a school-based SLP and wondered, “What the heck did I do all day?” you are not alone. Between high caseloads, speech therapy referrals coming in every other day, and trying to see all your students on your speech therapy schedule, it feels like we have NO time left to do all the other caseload management tasks.
How To Use Your Speech Therapy Schedule To Stay Productive
I am sharing my speech therapy schedule hacks to help you stay focused and productive on the must-dos for the week.
By taking 20 minutes at the end or start of your week to plan out what you will do with your non-therapy time, you will find pockets of time available for important speech therapy tasks.
When you write down when you will do your Medicaid billing, IEPs, assessments, etc. you will stay more focused during the non-therapy time.
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In this Real Talk SLP episode, I share the following:
You will learn tips for how to up your productivity during the work day so that when you leave, the important things on your to-do list will be done.
With this one small switch in how you view your work week, you won’t get distracted by emails, phone calls, or overbooking yourself and actually have time on your schedule to get stuff done!
How-to use Google Docs to create daily or weekly speech therapy schedules that you can duplicate to adjust your schedule.
Make your copy here of mine HERE. Use this Google Doc for each of your sites. If you are at one site or need a full weekly schedule view make a copy of this Google Sheet.
Print out your weekly speech therapy schedule after you edit it in Google Docs. I prefer to make a copy of my previous speech schedule and write a new weekly date for digital tracking.
Once I fill it out, I print out the weekly schedule and keep it on a clipboard to take notes when I go around the school. This way, if I didn’t have a computer on me while co-teaching, I could take attendance for Medicaid billing.
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