AnotherPea
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,968
Jan 4, 2015 1:47:52 GMT
|
Post by AnotherPea on Jun 8, 2015 2:48:06 GMT
oh hell no, once I am off contract I am not calling back. I would not be happy with parents calling me at home How do parents get personal phone numbers of teachers to call you at home? Mine was in the phone book. A counselor shared a coworker's with a parent last year. Teacher's number was unlisted.
|
|
|
Post by Princess Amy on Jun 8, 2015 2:51:33 GMT
Every day. I provide Early Intervention services, which are ongoing, year round services.
|
|
Deleted
Posts: 0
Apr 28, 2024 19:37:10 GMT
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2015 2:56:47 GMT
How do parents get personal phone numbers of teachers to call you at home? Mine was in the phone book. A counselor shared a coworker's with a parent last year. Teacher's number was unlisted. Doh! It's been so long since I've even looked in a phone book. I'd be pissed as hell if a counselor shared my phone number (teacher or not) with anyone who is not a staff member.
But then again, I've never shared a phone number or email address with someone without checking with the individual first. Even if I assume it would be okay.
|
|
Deleted
Posts: 0
Apr 28, 2024 19:37:10 GMT
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2015 2:58:23 GMT
I've had the phone number for the chorus/drama teacher at the high school for probably 4 yrs now. Our new "part time" drama teacher (she also teaches a few English courses) gave me her number last year.
My DS has both of those phone numbers, but he did NOT get them from me.
|
|
|
Post by freecharlie on Jun 8, 2015 3:08:21 GMT
Ds is going on a trip to dc, his teacher gave us his number. I would never call it if there was not an emergency during this trip
|
|
AnotherPea
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,968
Jan 4, 2015 1:47:52 GMT
|
Post by AnotherPea on Jun 8, 2015 3:09:28 GMT
I have too many helicopter parents that NEED to know things immediately for me to give my number out. As it is I get parents mad at me for not returning emails within an hour of them being sent. Even at ten at night. No way are they getting my number
|
|
The Great Carpezio
Pearl Clutcher
Something profound goes here.
Posts: 2,913
Jun 25, 2014 21:50:33 GMT
|
Post by The Great Carpezio on Jun 8, 2015 3:18:19 GMT
Push notifications on my phone have me checking multiple times a week now.
I've been out a week, but I spent a couple of hours grading, completing grade changes and parent/student emails.
|
|
|
Post by myshelly on Jun 8, 2015 3:55:56 GMT
DH can only check his from his work computer.
It doesn't go to his phone or iPad or any other devices.
He doesn't check it all summer.
He starts to check it when it gets close to when he has to report back.
Other than that he is on vacation, why would he work? Checking work email is working.
|
|
|
Post by 950nancy on Jun 8, 2015 4:00:10 GMT
oh hell no, once I am off contract I am not calling back. I would not be happy with parents calling me at home How do parents get personal phone numbers of teachers to call you at home? I haven't ever asked. It is a good question. Personally, I just can't imagine calling a teacher at home when they are with their family to ask about homework. Sending an email? Yes. As a teacher of elementary school, most of the questions can wait until tomorrow. We used to have a district phone book of 1,000+ employees. Several of the employees allegedly sold the names and phone numbers to family businesses and what have you. Ugh.
|
|
scrapaddie
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,090
Jul 8, 2014 20:17:31 GMT
|
Post by scrapaddie on Jun 8, 2015 4:03:10 GMT
It comes to my phone with the rest of my email, so daily, I guess. The concept of refusing to even answer an email or phone call outside of contract time is foreign to me. That's not how we operate here. I have a contract which includes my summer off. If it is important, the principal or secretary will call or email my personal email. There is little that is important over the summer. When I taught, there were some teachers that were totally by the contract and did not work a second over. These were the minority. Most teachers put in loads of extra hours because that's the only way the job can be done! And I have frequently called parents in the evening from home because that is the only time we can reach each other. I do love retirement!
|
|
|
Post by freecharlie on Jun 8, 2015 4:12:35 GMT
I have a contract which includes my summer off. If it is important, the principal or secretary will call or email my personal email. There is little that is important over the summer. When I taught, there were some teachers that were totally by the contract and did not work a second over. These were the minority. Most teachers put in loads of extra hours because that's the only way the job can be done! And I have frequently called parents in the evening from home because that is the only time we can reach each other. I do love retirement! i absolutely work over contract during, I am there early and stay past contract time for 30 minutes 3-5 days a week to help students or get stuff done . I can do my job during contract time, I just like to be ahead. I am lucky in that I get almost 90 minutes a day for plan due to our block schedule. Add that to having only 4 plans as I teach a couple of classes twice and I can get it done. Every once in a while I do need to take stuff home to grade, but typically I can do it.
|
|
scrapaddie
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,090
Jul 8, 2014 20:17:31 GMT
|
Post by scrapaddie on Jun 8, 2015 4:25:57 GMT
When I taught, there were some teachers that were totally by the contract and did not work a second over. These were the minority. Most teachers put in loads of extra hours because that's the only way the job can be done! And I have frequently called parents in the evening from home because that is the only time we can reach each other. I do love retirement! i absolutely work over contract during, I am there early and stay past contract time for 30 minutes 3-5 days a week to help students or get stuff done . I can do my job during contract time, I just like to be ahead. I am lucky in that I get almost 90 minutes a day for plan due to our block schedule. Add that to having only 4 plans as I teach a couple of classes twice and I can get it done. Every once in a while I do need to take stuff home to grade, but typically I can do it. I was a science teacher and we did labs at least twice a week each lab took about an hour of class to grade and I had six classes. Test also took quite a bit of time but I only checked homework to see that it was completed. And then there was set up labs, some of which took minutes, but others took hours. Our kids left at 2:35... I was rarely home by 5 and I still spent Sunday afternoons grading!!
|
|
|
Post by 950nancy on Jun 8, 2015 4:32:38 GMT
Most of the teachers in my building do 8-10 hours a week extra at school. We had to because we have meetings 3-4 times a week during our plan time. Lots still have to take home grading. I am NOT going to miss that part of the job.
|
|
Nicole in TX
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,951
Jun 26, 2014 2:00:21 GMT
|
Post by Nicole in TX on Jun 8, 2015 10:19:04 GMT
I refuse to set up my phone to check my school email. I am drawing a firm line there.
|
|
|
Post by christine58 on Jun 8, 2015 10:44:43 GMT
In summer, I check it because it comes with the rest of my emails on my iPad. Right now, it's important that teachers in my district are checking their emails daily because we are still negotiating this PAST years contract. We have a ratification meeting this Thursday and the number of auto replies that say the teachers are gone until August 10th is shocking. These teachers are going to miss the meeting if they don't check their emails. Then they'll bitch and complain because they didn't know. If I get an email from a parent, I won't be replying unless it's a chat chat email. I teach in a very small rural district so parents tend to be friendly with the teachers. I'm also waiting on an email from my principal telling me what I will be teaching next year. So, yeah, it's important that I check my emails thru the summer. We NEVER ever use the school email to notify our Union Members of meetings etc. Everything goes to their home email addresses as that is what is advised by NYSUT.
|
|
|
Post by Merge on Jun 8, 2015 11:28:47 GMT
I guess I just never saw the big deal in taking 30 seconds to reply to an email or return a phone call. If I didn't check my email at all during the summer, I would definitely miss out on important information, as admin works all summer on things that sometimes affect me, like scheduling. Plus this year I'm starting at a new building, so I wouldn't want to miss anything pertaining to new teachers at this school. I attend meetings and PD during the summer as I'm sure most of you do, so I guess I don't see also returning an email here and there as a huge imposition. Everyone has to find her own comfort level with this job, though. I plan to binge-watch some Netflix this week.
|
|
|
Post by littlefish on Jun 8, 2015 17:29:53 GMT
Pretty much the same as you.
My boss knows how to reach me if she absolutely needs something.
|
|
seaexplore
Prolific Pea
Posts: 8,404
Apr 25, 2015 23:57:30 GMT
|
Post by seaexplore on Jun 8, 2015 19:00:28 GMT
In summer, I check it because it comes with the rest of my emails on my iPad. Right now, it's important that teachers in my district are checking their emails daily because we are still negotiating this PAST years contract. We have a ratification meeting this Thursday and the number of auto replies that say the teachers are gone until August 10th is shocking. These teachers are going to miss the meeting if they don't check their emails. Then they'll bitch and complain because they didn't know. If I get an email from a parent, I won't be replying unless it's a chat chat email. I teach in a very small rural district so parents tend to be friendly with the teachers. I'm also waiting on an email from my principal telling me what I will be teaching next year. So, yeah, it's important that I check my emails thru the summer. We NEVER ever use the school email to notify our Union Members of meetings etc. Everything goes to their home email addresses as that is what is advised by NYSUT. Yep. It's advised here too but not all of the teachers gave their private emails addresses to stay informed. It's dumb not to use your private one really because the district can read whatever they want on their servers.
|
|
|
Post by donna on Jun 8, 2015 19:02:24 GMT
Mine goes to my phone so I check daily. My principal did tell us on the last day of school that he would not contact us at all during the month of June.
|
|
|
Post by freecharlie on Jun 8, 2015 20:04:39 GMT
I am at a pd right now, on a break, but I am here
|
|
|
Post by missfrenchjessica on Jun 8, 2015 20:09:56 GMT
It is very rare for me to check email after I'm done school for the day. I try to leave having read/replied to any emails that need my attention.
I've randomly checked email on the weekends, but honestly, that's very hit or miss.
Over the summer I might pop onto my school email once every couple of weeks, but I don't know if I even really average that often. I do start to check a little more regularly near the middle to end of August when school's about to start again.
I figure if they really need to get a hold of me during the summer, they can call me at home--they have both home and cell numbers. I'm not hard to get a hold of. I don't have any duties that require me to be available over the summer, so I don't feel the need to be chained to my email over my break.
|
|
|
Post by ihaveonly1l on Jun 8, 2015 21:40:37 GMT
I'm a TOSA (teacher on special assignment) and plan a great deal of staff development so I check my email frequently. I did turn off the push notifications on my phone for now and just check it when I want.
For me, I find it less stressful (even when I was in the classroom) to know what's there than not too.
|
|
|
Post by moveablefeast on Jun 8, 2015 22:29:42 GMT
I'm an administrator on a 10 month contract and check email a couple times a week in the off time. It's not paid, but it's a few minutes a couple times a week to make sure someone doesn't need something from me.
|
|
|
Post by darkchami on Jun 9, 2015 2:27:41 GMT
I used to check it once a week during the summer. That ended the summer that I checked my email at midnight and discovered I had a class at 8:00 a.m. the next morning. I didn't sign up for it, and it only included about 30 teachers in the district. Yes, they thought that less than a week's notice in the summer was plenty. Now I check it every 2-3 days.
|
|
|
Post by Dixie Lou on Jun 9, 2015 4:00:43 GMT
Just whenever I think about it.
I will start checking it every few days towards the end of July.
|
|
|
Post by freecharlie on Jun 9, 2015 4:08:50 GMT
I used to check it once a week during the summer. That ended the summer that I checked my email at midnight and discovered I had a class at 8:00 a.m. the next morning. I didn't sign up for it, and it only included about 30 teachers in the district. Yes, they thought that less than a week's notice in the summer was plenty. Now I check it every 2-3 days. see, I wouldn't have gone to that in that instance. We had a new coordinater who decided a program I used to work for needed a week long training (for something I had just done a 4 day training the year before) and gave us less than 2 weeks notice. I went on the days I didn't have anything planned, but I wasn't going to rearrange my plans for it and we got paid for it. I think I got almost an extra $1000 on that months check.
|
|
|
Post by 950nancy on Jun 9, 2015 4:09:26 GMT
I guess I just never saw the big deal in taking 30 seconds to reply to an email or return a phone call. If I didn't check my email at all during the summer, I would definitely miss out on important information, as admin works all summer on things that sometimes affect me, like scheduling. Plus this year I'm starting at a new building, so I wouldn't want to miss anything pertaining to new teachers at this school. I attend meetings and PD during the summer as I'm sure most of you do, so I guess I don't see also returning an email here and there as a huge imposition. Everyone has to find her own comfort level with this job, though. I plan to binge-watch some Netflix this week. I always read my email from my boss. Always. My issue was a few parents who demanded I be on call all weekend. One hounded me for extra worksheets every single weekend. He didn't let his child watch television. I had to stop that right away. Every worksheet I copied counted on my budget for the year. Thankfully there are so many websites parents can now use. God bless Khan Academy.
|
|