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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how working contract hours is possible. I'm in fairfax, and I have kids or CT meetings for all but 3 hours of my week. I have 3 middle school preps, and due to my wonky schedule see 2 of those courses 3 times, and one 5 times. That means I have 11 different lessons to prepare each week...in 3 hours of free time. Honestly, I have dropped all extras--no clubs, no tutoring, no volunteering for anything. Even still, I think is physically impossible to plan a lesson, make the activities, and run the copies for a single lesson in 15-20 minutes.

Honest question: are people suggesting I should hand out textbooks and just set kids loose to read/learn the material themselves? That would make it possible to leave at 2:40 when my contract ends. As a parent, would you be okay with that? I would be horrified if that's what my child's teachers did. Why have a teacher at all if that's all that do?

I love what I do and don't complain about the workload much, but the idea that it can reasonably be done within the contract window is mind boggling.[/quote]

I am also in Fairfax County and understand what you go through with planning. It's a lot. I'm not too familiar with policies and regulations for secondary grades but planning time in the elementary school is protected by school board policy. We have to have at least 300 minutes/week. A minimum of 60 minutes is used for collaborative planning AND a minimum of 240 is teacher directed. They define the difference between collaborative and teacher directed time. The planning time is provided by specialists so it has to occur during the school day.

During a STAC Meeting I seem to remember hearing from Dr Garza that secondary planning had protections at the state level, but I'd have to research it more. Elementary planning didn't have the same protections so the local school board put them in place.  Are you a member of a teacher organization such as FEA or FCFT?[/quote]

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