Re: E-mails in class and in general

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Email should be checked once or twice a day unless an urgent one is
expected. Deal with them early in the day or on your prep or after
school by return mails, telephone calls, or other action. Do not steal
time from your class/students by being beholden to email. If there is
an urgent matter that parent will pick up the telephone and you will
know to call.

On 9/18/12, Something to think about wrote:
> Yes, urgent, important, relied upon for emails that any other
> teacher in the building might be waiting for an important response
> to. Emails are part of the job. We do not teach in a cave---all
> alone. The village raising a child may be counting on you. Check
> your email often and don't leave people wondering if you got their
> message or not. Communicate. Some administrators use emails to
> diminish phone calls that interupt lessons. Checking email once or
> twice a day is not enough.
>
>
>
> On 9/16/12, Bob/VA wrote:
>> On 9/15/12, Something to think about wrote:
>>> Sometimes emailing can be urgent. Somethings cannot wait
>>> until prep time. An admininstrator may even send you an
>>> important email and the only time you check your email is at
>>> the beginning of the day? It is your job to stay up on emails
>>> and correspondences throughout the day.
>>
>> Are you serious? If something comes up that is all that urgent
>> email is NOT the way to address it. What an admin
>> considers "important" may be, however, if it's all THAT important
>> email is NOT the way to address it.
>> The last time I checked it is the teacher's job to, dare I say
>> it, teach his/her students, not be checking email during class
>> time when students are present in the room. Similarly the
>> teacher should not be working on IEPs during class time - that's
>> what prep times are for. (that and taking the darn things home
>> to do)
>>
>> Now - having said that I do think the OP is just a busy body with
>> too much time on his/her hands and is more concerned with what
>> others are doing that with what she/he should be doing. Every
>> school has one, or two, and they are far too often more trouble
>> than they are worth.
 

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