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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow these teachers work so much.  WHY?  Why is it necessary to work so many hours?  Something is wrong with this model.  Unfortunately women like to make things more complicated than they need to be and come up with made up work.  My guess is it’s a result of being a female-dominated industry.  [/quote]

Scenario:
I collect 150 5-page papers. I am required to leave comments. It takes me 10 minutes per paper, so that’s 25 hours of grading for that assignment alone. I am required to grade two *meaningful* assignments a week.

I get 24 minutes a day that are unstructured and away from other people. That’s 24 minutes a day to grade those papers, grade other assignments, prep my lessons, respond to all emails, etc.

I am sincerely curious: how can I make this job easier? How can I cut hours?

I’m not being snarky. I genuinely would like to know so I don’t quit.

- written on my one 24-minute break today. That’s also my time for lunch and unwinding, which I am doing now before I spend the rest of the time planning.[/quote]

It’s not you.  It’s whoever is requiring you to grade 2 meaningful assignments and not have time within the school day to do so.  If men were teachers they would not be taking these assignments home to grade.  Men love to take advantage of unpaid or lowly female labor.

To be fair though, I thought the school day ended around 2 or 3 PM.  I don’t see why 2 more hours a day is sufficient for what needs to get done. [/quote]

Well, for starters, teachers are not grading during the school day. They are teaching during the school day. For an elementary school teacher, 2 hours at the end of the day MIGHT be sufficient for what they need to do, if they are not participating in other things like supervising extracurricular activities or meeting with parents, both of which are pretty common after hours things for elementary school teachers to do.

For a teacher at my kid's high school, they start work at 9 and school gets out at 4. Depending on the teacher, they have 3-7 classes per day. If my kid's history teacher (5 classes per day this year, last year it was 7) collects one 5-page assignment from all 25ish kids in each class, that is 125 assignments. Each needs to be read and commented on substantively, which as the PP above says takes time. If the PP really just skims and gives generic feedback, call it 5 minutes per assignment instead of 10. That's still over 10 hours of grading for one assignment. If you are giving teachers in this situation 2 hours after school gets out (from 4-6pm), they will need to use that "grading period" all week for this one assignment. That history class has a 5 page paper and 2 shorter assignments this week.

I agree that there is a lot of gendered imbalances in education, but the history teacher I'm describing is male. My dad taught university-level literature classes and he also experienced the long hours of grading outside the hours of teaching.

Some professions just have really different structures that are not responsive to things [b]like "just add 2 hours at the end of the day, easy[/b]!"[/quote]

Sounds like things need to change.  Perhaps AI will help.  [/quote]

How does AI solve the problem of grading? Do you want your child's high school papers to be reviewed by AI, rather than the person teaching them? [/quote]

Yes.  Because people would be more interested in becoming teachers.  I can imagine it’s harder to attract quality teachers due to the long hours and low wages.  AI could reduce the hours.  [/quote]

I don't think you will get a lot of teachers agreeing that their job can be done by AI. I'm not a teacher, and while you can obviously automate a lot of learning, I just don't think that this is one of them. Maybe some aspects of teaching, but not this.

As a parent, is that what you want for your child? [/quote]

Ha!  i teach public preschool. Make 100K+ get a lunch break occasionally, but usually work through it because the kids are three. The material prep etc is a lot, but there is no way AI will make my job easier.[/quote]

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