Secondary Teachers-time spent correcting/planning

FlashGordon1969

I'm just curious to know the amount of time teachers spend correcting/planning at home. I think I average about 5-7 hours a week . I'm an English/History/RE teacher. We dont do RE as an exam subject so that lightens my load correcting wise and my Ord level English students produce little work at Leaving Cert level!

I do a fair bit at work too-just interested how much time outside of work my fellow teachers do?

spurious

I'd be doing more than that - about three, sometimes four hours a day. Usually one hour in the morning and two in the evening. I mainly teach children for whom text books are inaccessible, so everything has to be tailored for them.

Finding resources is very time-consuming. I don't like bringing corrections home, so I usually do them after school, in school. I am usually in school 8.00 to 4.30 or 5.00 every day.

implausible

Depends, I could do 2/3 hours some evenings, but like Spurious, I find it easier and more productive to just stay in school an extra hour.

English teacher as well, by the way.

looksee

I have been struggling to mark projects - trying to find a marking scheme that makes sense and will suit the examiners! I've been at it all day on and off (well I did do a bit of gardening in the nice sunshine ) I have finally got a plan, thank goodness, but as yet nothing actually marked. Tomorrow, tomorrow...

TheDriver

well I used to put in those hours but not as much anymore because I find 1) teaching a good few years, the stuff becomes second nature and you know the course backwards 2) resources don't change much over the years and become perfected 3) I teach Maths which is much easier to correct 4) notes online etc means not slaving over the photocopier all the time.

clartharlear

I try not to bring stuff home. I don't work on Tuesdays, but I came in anyway to do my correcting in school. 2-3 hours a day would be the absolute minimum. I'm in my first post-dip year though, so I hope experience will shorten that time...

spurious

18 children on I.E.P.s in the one class makes things interesting and means lots of work.

Something's gone wrong - am I not supposed to be off dossing from 2.30 every day, collecting rents from my second and third properties to add to my massive 60k take home pay?

TheDriver

exactly Spurious, you should be at home watching re runs of the cosby show every afternoon!
Don't ya know every teacher listens to Joe Doffy on their way home from morning work

peanuthead

spurious wrote: »

18 children on I.E.P.s in the one class makes things interesting and means lots of work.

OMG!! Off topic I know, but are you the only adult in the class with them??

spurious

peanuthead wrote: »

OMG!! Off topic I know, but are you the only adult in the class with them??

Yes. We don't have SNAs in our school. We use hours for Learning Support instead. I choose to take those kids and so far haven't needed to call in LS, I don't mind the classes with them, though I see there are easier paths. To be honest all the paperwork is worse than teaching them.

peanuthead

spurious wrote: »

Yes. We don't have SNAs in our school. We use hours for Learning Support instead. I choose to take those kids and so far haven't needed to call in LS, I don't mind the classes with them, though I see there are easier paths. To be honest all the paperwork is worse than teaching them.

Well thats what I was thinking about. I'm imagining that now you're pretty used to it, but at the beginning there must not have been room for anything else on your desk with 18 IEPs

Fair play

RH149

About 3 hours every night Mon-Thurs, and no matter how often I say I won't do it, usually spend a good chunk of Sunday afternoon at it too.....the joys of teaching English.

gaeilgegrinds1

I stay at school til 5 or half and am always in at half 8. Plus do three or four hours on a Sat most of the year. End of year is always far busier though.