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[quote=Anonymous]I come from a family with a lot of professionals in other fields.  No one seems to think that my siblings and cousins are only working if they're in front of clients.  They seem to understand that the surgeon works full time, even though she's not in the operating theater 40 hours a week, or that my lawyer brother is still working during the weeks when he's planning a trial rather than participating in one. Or that my engineer brother's job includes time to read the manual and attend the training related to the new piece of hardware his company just acquired.  But somehow the same people seem to think that because I'm in front of a classroom 20 hours a week, I'm "working" 20 hours a week.

Looking over the past week, here's how my time broke down.  I teach HS special ed

Time spent teaching: 20 hours (3 80 minute classes, 5 days a week, I'm not in MCPS so I didn't get Yom Kippur off this time)

Time spent supervising kids that isn't "teaching": 3 hours (2 30 minute "homeroom" sessions, during which the kids watched videos and took surveys from the counselors, 1 60 minute assembly. 2 30 minute club periods where I serve as faculty advisory.  If I taught elementary school this time would be much longer).

Time spent working with kids outside of class: 7.5 hours (I'm available to students before school (15 minutes), at lunch (30 minutes), and afterschool (45 minutes a day) some things we did during this time included planning club meetings, training peer tutors, reviewing the day's schedule or the day's homework assignments, or providing tutoring or homework help, administering tests with extra time, etc . . .

Back to school night: 3 hours

Met with Assistant Principal to plan workshop: 2 hours

IEP meeting: 2 hours

Attended training on new software: 4 hours

Attended event outside of school hours: 4 hours (most schools require to chaperone a certain number of events such as games, dances, etc . . . In this case it was a school picnic).

Staff meeting: 30 minutes

That's a total of 46 hours, although I'm sure I forgot stuff.  It's also before I added a single assignment to the online calendar, answered a single parent email, wrote, modified, or graded an assignment or assessment, planned a lesson, analyzed a piece of data, or wrote an IEP goal.  I do almost all those things from home, so they wouldn't figure into the hours you'd see my car in the parking lot, if I didn't happen to commute by metro.  I'm generally on campus 7:30 - 4:30 M - F, although this week I stayed until 9 one day for BTS night, went to other locations for 4 hours on both Sat. and Sun for the training and the picnic.  [/quote]

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