LAUGH
While we may not be negotiating multi-million dollar business deals, the facial expressions and reactions of the “sharks” in the popular entrepreneurial investment show, Shark Tank, are quite familiar for teachers. The highly-dreaded teacher staff meeting is a place of mixed emotions, raised tensions, and pure aggravation, written all over every face in the room. Whether they’re during your prep time or at the end of a long day, staff meetings are never something to look forward to, and almost always a complete waste of valuable time.
1. When they start the meeting with a high-energy ice-breaker…
2. When the speaker says something that makes no sense…
3. Throwing out a random “wow” or two, so it sounds like you’re interested…
4. Trying to keep your eyes open…
5. When you want to speak your mind, but hold back so it doesn’t last any longer…
6. Pretending to take notes while you make a to-do list of all the things you could be getting done, right now…
7. When you’re trying to figure out why this couldn’t have just been an email…
8. When you want to say something, but people keep cutting you off…
9. When admin starts lecturing about why you shouldn’t lecture in your class…
10. When you’ve sat through this same exact meeting for the past 10 years, and you feel dead inside…
11. When they start talking about cutting budgets left and right…
12. When two co-workers arguing just made the meeting a little entertaining…
13. When admin asks what teachers would like to see more of, this school year…
14. When admin starts telling you how to run your classroom…
15. When that person keeps asking questions, prolonging the meeting another 15 minutes…
16. When the meeting is finally over…
