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One thing to consider: it might be doable to balance the regular duties (exec and panhell meetings, etc) with teaching but there is no way to budget time for a crisis. If your chapter faced a serious issue, say mass discipline hearings, would you feel comfortable balancing the extra hours and emotional drain with everything else? Also would teaching coincide with recruitment? Every chapter is different but in mine the president and MVP were basically co-captains during work week and onwards. That meant as president I was up until the wee hours with our MVP and advisors making sure PNM lists were in order and decorations for the next day set. It was an incredible opportunity to serve but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't burned-out by the end of my term. Good luck making your choice and remember that ANYONE can effect positive change in their chapter with or without a position!

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Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2327401)

Maybe this could work IF

- your chapter is fairly small (less than 50 members) and overprogramming isn't an issue
- you are student teaching at a school within 5 miles from your campus
- your chapter meetings are on a weekend afternoon or evening. You ever know what's going to hold you up during the day.
- things in your chapter are running on a fairly even keel and you don't anticipate any problems

EVEN IF all these things apply, I would really think twice about running for president.

It might even be a worse idea if your chapter is small. Presidents tend to have to DO more and delegate less in smaller groups (at least that is what I see in my volunteer role.)

Double-posting, but I student taught as an adult in a career change and I still found it to be rather demanding. You are not just WATCHING. You are being a teacher every day. Also, depending on your state, you are also completing the necessary exams and state requirements to get your teaching license at the same time.

If you're in Ohio, that means you're completing the TPA (three separate tasks requiring you to record yourself teaching, upload your assessment data, lesson plans, etc. and write 10 page commentaries on each video while analyzing your data and uploading graphs, student work, etc. to the state scoring system to be scored by ODE.) You're also taking your OAE exams if you have not already done so.

I couldn't imagine doing all of that and having to be concerned with (for example) Officer Academy.

That, and your schedule depends on your cooperating teacher, grade, etc. I student taught in an elementary school. We did not dismiss until 4. Had I been a college student, I would have been getting home at 4:30 and heading to a COR at 5:30. If it were during fall, I would have missed recruitment entirely.