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When I was teaching, I'd get into school for about 7:15am (so wake up at about 5am), so I could make sure I was prepared for my lessons that day. My first class

When I was teaching, I'd get into school for about 7:15am (so wake up at about 5am), so I could make sure I was prepared for my lessons that day. My first class was never before 9am, and school ended at 3:30pm. I just couldn't have coped classes starting that early.

bonzini 4y ago
What did you do for two hours fifteen minutes?
- MarcScott 4y ago
  - Write lesson plans for the department. - Prepare materials for students to work on. - Mark students' work. - Write assessment reports on students for parents. - Write department action plans. - Complete SEN reports on selected students. - Complete CPD in electronics and CS to upskill in the subjects I taught. - Prototype new projects that the students would engage with in the future. I could go on. For about every hour I spent actually teaching in a classroom, there was half an hour spent planning, assessing or completing admin work. I regularly worked 12 hour days, plus weekends, and all those long holiday that we were supposed to get.
  - bonzini 4y ago
    I was talking specifically of the morning.
    - filleduchaos 4y ago
      Personally, nothing about the answer implies that the given list was not tackled in the morning.
      - bonzini 4y ago
        It also didn't include anything that had to be done in the morning such as commuting. I am not suggesting that school should start at 7:15 but, if school began and ended earlier, all of those activities could be moved after school ended (possibly to the previous day).
    - MarcScott 4y ago
      That was my morning, my evenings, my weekends and my "holidays". I could have added more to the list. Teaching is not about babysitting kids for 60 minutes while you scroll though a PowerPoint.
      - bonzini 4y ago
        I know obviously that it isn't. If only because when I went to school there was no PowerPoint and I am old enough to have TA'd on a blackboard with chalk.

bonzini 4y ago

What did you do for two hours fifteen minutes?

MarcScott 4y ago
- Write lesson plans for the department. - Prepare materials for students to work on. - Mark students' work. - Write assessment reports on students for parents. - Write department action plans. - Complete SEN reports on selected students. - Complete CPD in electronics and CS to upskill in the subjects I taught. - Prototype new projects that the students would engage with in the future. I could go on. For about every hour I spent actually teaching in a classroom, there was half an hour spent planning, assessing or completing admin work. I regularly worked 12 hour days, plus weekends, and all those long holiday that we were supposed to get.
- bonzini 4y ago
  I was talking specifically of the morning.
  - filleduchaos 4y ago
    Personally, nothing about the answer implies that the given list was not tackled in the morning.
    - bonzini 4y ago
      It also didn't include anything that had to be done in the morning such as commuting. I am not suggesting that school should start at 7:15 but, if school began and ended earlier, all of those activities could be moved after school ended (possibly to the previous day).
  - MarcScott 4y ago
    That was my morning, my evenings, my weekends and my "holidays". I could have added more to the list. Teaching is not about babysitting kids for 60 minutes while you scroll though a PowerPoint.
    - bonzini 4y ago
      I know obviously that it isn't. If only because when I went to school there was no PowerPoint and I am old enough to have TA'd on a blackboard with chalk.