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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.  To the teacher getting her middle school endorsement.  No way will you EVER be able to put in 40 hour work weeks.  Maybe 50 on a good week and especially if you have a 4 day week due to a holiday.  The first few years will be the hardest and you can plan on 70-80 hour weeks then.  Make sure you get at least 5 years in before having kids.  [/quote]

So what about all the teacher moms?  Are they all really pulling 60 hour weeks while raising kids? [/quote]

I do. From what I see and hear my colleagues and teacher friends do as well.

For most of us, it's leaving at the end of the duty day, but staying up very late at night or getting up at an ungodly hour in the AM.

There are teachers who put in 40 hours weeks. I've worked with a few. Generally, they "teach" using worksheets and videos that are never updated or differentiated. They give assessments that are graded by scantron. If forced to give projects or essays, they don't really grade them or write personalized comments. I was hired to replace a veteran teacher who had a file cabinet with each of the 180 school days labeled. He'd pull out the folder, make 150 copies of the worksheet and then read the newspaper until the students arrived. After they did the worksheet, he'd go over the answers and students would correct their papers. Then he'd put on a video. At the end of the week, he gave an open notes quiz. The students loved him because he was such an easy A. He retired after the County added a required standardized test to each unit and began collecting results. This isn't the way I'd want my child to be taught.

So sure, a teacher can work 40 hours a week. Just like a teacher can use only the materials provided by the school or district rather than spending their own funds or seeking donations. Doable, but is it good teaching?[/quote]

I feel there's a lot of insecurity and bitterness in the teaching profession, and teachers who put in many additional hours look down on teachers who don't and basically call them bad teachers over and over again (the way the PP just did and several others have done in this and other threads). The funny thing is that from the public's perspective, [b]you're all bad teachers[/b] because that's the current narrative in the US toward public education. If teachers in the US were less individualistic, we'd band together and stop working for additional hours without additional resources instead of developing Superman complexes and badmouthing each other for not putting in the "right" number of unpaid hours. But because we're raised in a culture that champions the individual instead of the collective, and teachers aren't necessarily any smarter than other college-educated Americans, we turn on each other while the expectations continue to climb until teachers are putting in 60-70 hour weeks for 40h pay and lashing out at those who have enough self respect not to do so. It's a fine mess we're in.[/quote]

How do YOU put in just 40 hours and manage to be excellent? Please provide a detailed schedule of your 40 hours so we can learn from you and all work just the paid duty day.[/quote]

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