How do you manage parents’ expectations of your profession? For example, parents who feel you MUST: stay after school, give them your personal phone number, meet with them after they get off of work, be their child’s mentor, provide tutoring, be the second parent? We all love our students, but....

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This pressure is felt by most teachers. I used to do all of that, and it took our current situation with COVID 19 and remote learning to realize that I need to have a “break” from work for my family and my sanity. Weird how obvious it became of my lack of separation between work and home became when they do easily blended together while working from the home. My plan is to offer office hours. During these hours I am available to parents. Since PreK is my main grade level, tutoring after school is not needed. However if I taught upper grades, tutoring would be set for my office hours on designated days. Two years ago I discovered the importance of using both a physical planner, Google calendar and colored pens to designate events and such. Some things take priority- IEP meetings, Staff meetings, mandatory PD...write those in first. Then doctor appointments and family events...once these are marked in the calendar, decide what days are tutoring, planning and parent meetings. Once these are set, try not to change them unless it’s an emergency. My son had a band teacher who set his class/marching band/concert schedules up a semester in advance then sent it to parents. His expectations were annoying, since he sent the schedule out months in advance, there shouldn’t be any excuses not to mold your (the student/parent) schedule around it. And wouldn’t you know, all us band parents did! I don’t k ow if that advice is helpful, but hoping something sparks an idea! Good journey!

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I would tell them that I am not the parent. I am the instructor and I would outline my job description to them and let them know what I do daily for my students , which means most of the time I tutor at lunch and after school for free.

I definitely need to learn to set boundaries. My goal this year is to not stay late. We will see! But that’s my goal. I didn’t get lunch or planning periods before and I hope to get them this year.

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