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But how? Again, here's the facts I'm basing my opinion on: 1. I know, for a fact, that the School District in my area has a list of approved sites from which

But how? Again, here's the facts I'm basing my opinion on: 1. I know, for a fact, that the School District in my area has a list of approved sites from which teachers can get lessons plans from. So they don't have to make those up from scratch. 2. Every teacher is guaranteed a prep period to take care of work 3. Grading shouldn't take all that much time. I could be missing something (and if so please tell me) but I ran the numbers above and they seem pretty accurate. If public teachers really are as underpaid and over worked as they say I'd like to know about it. But they never offer any explanation and the numbers I can come up with (see above) paint a different picture.

philwelch 17y ago
Average reading speed means nothing: you have to add time to write comments in the margins and mark up the paper, you read more slowly when you're grading, often you're working with hard-to-read handwriting, and math problems (show your work!) take time to go through and debug, especially if you're giving partial credit (suppose I make a mistake at step 2 but the rest of my answer is logically consistent with that mistake...). One one page typed essay assignment per week? I had 5 page papers, 20 page term projects, weekly quizzes in class, exams, 30 math problems once or twice a week, labs. Of 30 math problems about five would be randomly selected and checked. 30 seconds on average to check a problem on your class size assumptions is about 5 hours a week (this is an average between about 10 seconds for someone who gets it right and 1-2 minutes for someone who makes some amount of mistakes and needs careful correction). Then you have quizzes and exams: let's amortize that to about 10 questions per week, and you need to carefully inspect them for partial credit. That's another 20 hours a week (let's say you take a full minute per problem). That's 25 hours a week to grade math.

philwelch 17y ago

Average reading speed means nothing: you have to add time to write comments in the margins and mark up the paper, you read more slowly when you're grading, often you're working with hard-to-read handwriting, and math problems (show your work!) take time to go through and debug, especially if you're giving partial credit (suppose I make a mistake at step 2 but the rest of my answer is logically consistent with that mistake...). One one page typed essay assignment per week? I had 5 page papers, 20 page term projects, weekly quizzes in class, exams, 30 math problems once or twice a week, labs. Of 30 math problems about five would be randomly selected and checked. 30 seconds on average to check a problem on your class size assumptions is about 5 hours a week (this is an average between about 10 seconds for someone who gets it right and 1-2 minutes for someone who makes some amount of mistakes and needs careful correction). Then you have quizzes and exams: let's amortize that to about 10 questions per week, and you need to carefully inspect them for partial credit. That's another 20 hours a week (let's say you take a full minute per problem). That's 25 hours a week to grade math.