Email Etiquette and Management

Email Etiquette and Management Skills

(Adapted from NYCSpeechies)

Email is a critical life skill students will be expected to use throughout their lives, whether they go to college, get a job, or go to trade school. Students who do not practice good email etiquette and email management skills have lost out on job, internship, scholarship and college opportunities because they fail to miss requests for follow-up information, miss deadlines and other opportunities.  

Emails are one way employers, college admissions officers and scholarship committees will judge students after they interview them. Learning how to send initial and follow-up emails that are professional and appropriate is a critical skill for future success.

Students will write emails to their Jefferson teachers

Students will need to ask their teachers questions after school hours and email is the best way to do this. Learn how to write emails for different purposes such as asking for help, a time extension, or letting the teacher know you will be absent.

Students will write emails to their PCC Middle College professors

Students should feel confident in their ability to email a professor for various purposes.

Students will write emails to their employer/supervisors

At some point in the future, Jefferson Middle College students will enter the workforce. Learn how to send emails to supervisors for various reasons, like requesting vacation time off or asking for a change in the work schedule.

Students will write emails responding to jobs, internships, college admissions and financial aid offices, and following up on interviews

Writing emails to potential employers is something that can make or break getting a job, internship, scholarship, etc.