Meetings, Meetings, Meetings

 

If you're a teacher or really, any working person, then you know about meetings. As a teacher, there are so many meetings, even in the summer. Every job has meetings. My husband, a truck driver, has a once-a-month meeting and my daughter, Manager of Jersey Mike's has a meeting every week. It's a part of many jobs. I especially know about teacher meetings.

The last year I was teaching, we had a monthly meeting. But a lot of times, other meetings were put in your schedule, like a math workshop or a grade level meeting. These monthly meetings would take about 2 hours, and it would seem to stretch out forever. I understand that we teachers need to know what's going on but honestly, a lot of the meeting could be an email. Some teachers would be texting each other during the meeting, while a lot of the others were drawing in their planners.

The worse meetings are the ones at the beginning of the year. Are they needed? Well, yes, sometimes. We all need to know of any changes that will be happening for the new year. But they want to throw other things in there like a training on a new curriculum that may happen next year, or a new software gradebook when you pretty much just learned the other one. What most teachers are thinking about is their classrooms. They want to get them fixed up and perfect for the open house and they don't want to be in school until midnight. I know you hear me teachers!

Good luck this year!