General Discussion:

• Do you think you have too much work to do?
• Why do you we think we are overworked?
• Overworked compared to what? Who?
• What are you not getting done that you think you should be doing?

• What activities take the most time?
• What activities are the least productive?
• What activities could better be consolidated and given to others to do?
• Are all the forms, emails, committees necessary?

• How many hours do you work outside of the normal 8:00 - 5:00 time?
• How many extra classes, seminars, ISOs do you sponsor? Why?
• What clubs, teams, activities are you actively involved in?
• Would fewer classes, release time, or sabbatical make a difference?

• Would higher pay make you less concerned about being overworked?
• Would working 11 months help your situations, or make it worse?
• Are summers off enough time to relax and recharge?

Reorganizing the way we work:

• Twenty of the twenty-one people in this group do feel overworked.
• They felt like there were some inefficient activities including:
  • Too many forms, too many signatures on these forms (for trips with students, purchases, absences.
  • Current computer facilities cause much inefficiency.
  • Are we spending too much time grading and preparing for class
    1. Need more release time to learn new technologies
    2. Are we testing and collecting more assignments now than in the past?
    3. Is there a rising cycle of assignment giving?
    4. Is retesting a good idea? Just Say No!
    5. Tutor in groups, not one-to-one.
    6. There is not enough time to give special time to each student.
    7. Could office hours constrain when you see students?
    8. Are a relatively few students taking up a large amount of time?
    9. Absences, Labs need to be made up, causing extra work for teacher.
• Advising has become a much bigger job, especially if one or 2 (students) is a problem.
• Study Hall needs to go.
• Some committee assignments need release time, others need to be done away with.
• Eliminate Alt Day Forms
• SPW and Alt Days add more work to faculty.

• How many hours outside of 8-5 time? 4+ hours per day
• Extra classes, seminars, etc? 1/semester
• Clubs, other activities? 1/year
• Would fewer classes, release time, sabbataal help? Sabbatacal a great idea.
• Too much work?
  • Worse each year.
  • high need students, parents
• Why are we overworked?
  • added responsibilities
  • high need students
• Overworked compared to who? Not enough energizing work.
• What are we not getting done?
  • developing new courses
  • preparation for class
  • grading
  • learning new technologies to use in class

• Evaluation drives us to do as much as we possibly can.
• No mechanism in place for letting us know that we are doing well.
• Longer school year is not a solution, we need the summer off.
• More job satisfaction, not more pay, would do more to make job less of a burden.
• We put a lot of pressure on ourselves.
• Invisible (less publicized but necessary) task need to be rewarded as much as the highly visible ones.
• We could give up some opportunities for input, but that would require more trust on our part that others were capable of making good decisions.
• We are all overworkers and need to find ways to make this job more enjoyable.