Teachers: How much time do you spend on assessment/grades?

[Anonymous]

I've recently reentered the teaching field after a long absence. I was wondering how much time teachers feel they spend outside of school/planning time working on grades each quarter?

[Anonymous]

What? No one wants to dish?

[Anonymous]

Haven't taught in a K-12 setting in four years but I remember staying after school until as late as 7 or 8pm (school got out at 3:15pm) grading at the end of a semester. As for outside planning, it depends on if I'm teaching a completely new project or re-using a project I had done in previous years (was a high school art teacher).

[Anonymous]

I think it depends more on what you teach and how much planning time you get during the school day. Elementary school teachers often get less planning/grading time during the day and will take more work home. A HS English teacher will spend more time grading most likely than other teachers. I taught MS & HS History and would work probably an average of 1-2 hours a day outside of school on grading/planning while I usually had 1-2 hours of planning a day during school hours. I also spent many weekends grading projects and papers. I tried not to take much home and to get as much work done during the school hours - but with meetings, lunch duty, phone calls, classes, etc. that is often hard to do.

[Anonymous]

DCPS teacher (upper grade elementary)

up at 4 am to develop/revise lesson plans for all subjects

arrive at school around 7:30, leave around 6:30 or later, tutoring individual students, prepping the room, preparing materials

weekends: grade, obtain resources at MLK Library, shop for books online, visit museums to plan field trips

summer: develop long-range plans and resources for the coming year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher (upper grade elementary)

up at 4 am to develop/revise lesson plans for all subjects

arrive at school around 7:30, leave around 6:30 or later, tutoring individual students, prepping the room, preparing materials

weekends: grade, obtain resources at MLK Library, shop for books online, visit museums to plan field trips

summer: develop long-range plans and resources for the coming year

You must be badly organized or a very sloooow worker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher (upper grade elementary)

up at 4 am to develop/revise lesson plans for all subjects

arrive at school around 7:30, leave around 6:30 or later, tutoring individual students, prepping the room, preparing materials

weekends: grade, obtain resources at MLK Library, shop for books online, visit museums to plan field trips

summer: develop long-range plans and resources for the coming year

You must be badly organized or a very sloooow worker.

You must lazy and unmotivated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it depends more on what you teach and how much planning time you get during the school day. Elementary school teachers often get less planning/grading time during the day and will take more work home. A HS English teacher will spend more time grading most likely than other teachers. I taught MS & HS History and would work probably an average of 1-2 hours a day outside of school on grading/planning while I usually had 1-2 hours of planning a day during school hours. I also spent many weekends grading projects and papers. I tried not to take much home and to get as much work done during the school hours - but with meetings, lunch duty, phone calls, classes, etc. that is often hard to do.

FCPS high school teacher and I totally agree with this. It also varies by how long you have been teaching and your subject. In general, I think if you teach English you will grade more than someone who teaches Math. And in general, the longer you teach the easier it gets as far as grading and assessment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it depends more on what you teach and how much planning time you get during the school day. Elementary school teachers often get less planning/grading time during the day and will take more work home. A HS English teacher will spend more time grading most likely than other teachers. I taught MS & HS History and would work probably an average of 1-2 hours a day outside of school on grading/planning while I usually had 1-2 hours of planning a day during school hours. I also spent many weekends grading projects and papers. I tried not to take much home and to get as much work done during the school hours - but with meetings, lunch duty, phone calls, classes, etc. that is often hard to do.

FCPS high school teacher and I totally agree with this. It also varies by how long you have been teaching and your subject. In general, I think if you teach English you will grade more than someone who teaches Math. And in general, the longer you teach the easier it gets as far as grading and assessment.

Also depends on how many preps you have. Elementary teachers typically teach 5 different lessons per day. When I taught Middle School I had 1 or 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it depends more on what you teach and how much planning time you get during the school day. Elementary school teachers often get less planning/grading time during the day and will take more work home. A HS English teacher will spend more time grading most likely than other teachers. I taught MS & HS History and would work probably an average of 1-2 hours a day outside of school on grading/planning while I usually had 1-2 hours of planning a day during school hours. I also spent many weekends grading projects and papers. I tried not to take much home and to get as much work done during the school hours - but with meetings, lunch duty, phone calls, classes, etc. that is often hard to do.

FCPS high school teacher and I totally agree with this. It also varies by how long you have been teaching and your subject. In general, I think if you teach English you will grade more than someone who teaches Math. And in general, the longer you teach the easier it gets as far as grading and assessment.

Also depends on how many preps you have. Elementary teachers typically teach 5 different lessons per day. When I taught Middle School I had 1 or 2.

Actually could be more:
* reading - one whole-group lesson, followed by guided reading groups (I have 4 reading groups in my class so that's 4 different guided reading lessons) - SO READING ALONE POTENTIALLY COULD BE 5 DIFFERENT LESSONS WITHIN ONE SCHOOL DAY

* math - even if your school moves students around for math groupings, you're very likely to have at least two different groups within your math class - SO...while you may likely be teaching the same concept, be prepared to use different materials to meet the needs of your individual students/small groups

* Now you can plan for writing, science and social studies