In my book ‘the elephant in the staffroom’ I briefly mentioned dealing with email, citing one interesting statistic from John Freeman’s that American corporate workers spend up to 40% of the day dealing with email, in the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot more about the teacher’s relationship with email and would like to extend my thoughts.
Email is almost always a disruption.
– You are in the middle of a lesson and you get an email reminding you of something you haven’t done.
– You are productively working through your to do list in the office when emails keep pinging – you just check because it may be important.
– You are sitting down to watch TV with your family and an email arrives at your device. Your mind is transported back to work.
Email is always a distraction from the thing that you are actually…
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