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[quote=Anonymous]I taught at a private school at the elementary level. I did not have the meetings that public school teachers had, but here's how my days typically broke down:

Teaching duties: 3-4 hrs/day
Non-teaching student supervision (homeroom, recess duty, carpool): 1 hr/day
Meetings (faculty, department, or parent): 1 hr/day
Parent communication (website updates, responding to emails, discipline issues, academic issues, coordinating volunteers) 30-60 min./day
Materials organization (filing papers, photocopying, cleaning classroom, preparing lesson materials for math or science): 30 min./day
Lesson planning: 1-2 hrs/day

Even if lesson planning and parent communication were on the low side, I was already at an 8 hr. day before I started grading. If I collected class work and homework, I had the potential to collect 108 assignments per day from my students. Just quickly assigning a score to each of those assignments and putting it in the grade book would have been nearly 2 hours/day.

We teachers learn to look for what's important. It's not that we're throwing the work in a bin and ignoring it entirely. It's just that we can't take five minutes with each paper every time. [/quote]

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