Meetings, Meetings, And More Meetings

If there is one thing I've noticed over the first three weeks of school, it is that we as educator meet a lot. There are meetings all of the time. There are data team meetings, 5th grade team meetings, university supervisor meetings/seminars, and faculty and staff meetings. We have meeting on every level to research the students, to prepare to teach the students, and then to talk about what we taught the students. We leave the classroom for hours, sometimes an entire day, to learn how we should instruct our students. Every time we turn around there is another meeting!

I'm not saying that meeting is bad. Education is always changing and evolving and therefore must be treated in that manner. I've heard that teachers are the worst students and therefore these seminars and meetings usually get tiresome after a while. We began to think of what we could do better or how we would present the session to our peers or even our students.

I've always seen myself as a business minded kind of guy. I feel as though productive meetings are vital to the evolution of our classrooms over the course of the year. We have to continuously find out how to best fit the needs of our class in the most challenging way. I guess a great way to do this, if done right, is attending meetings, meetings, and more meetings.