Damaging Impacts & Advice for WhatsApp
CPD: Stop Talking About Wellbeing (by Kat Howard), topic 1.2.1
‘What’s the Harm? It’s Just WhatsApp!’
To those who can successfully self-regulate, indeed it is. But here are some situations that demonstrate the vulnerability of others in WhatsApp groups.
The more vulnerable colleague
- For a more vulnerable member of staff, it can be the place they double-guess the words of others.
The new guy
- For the NQT new to the school, it can be the place that everyone seems to know everyone except them.
The person who never says no
- For the one member of staff who never says no to anything, it can be the place that they take on new projects at 11 p.m. on a Friday evening.