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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of the extra work teachers say they do sounds low level and that is probably why the barrier to entry and the pay is low. Making copies?  Buying supplies? Someone said they spent 3 weeks I. August setting up their room. [b]Grading papers takes 1 minute per student[/b] according to one poster.
There is no higher level higher paid job that expects people to do that. Seems like a lot of organizational and time management things that they do, aka busy work, that could be handled by someone without a degree and free up teachers to teach.
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And many teachers would love this, but society as a whole and probably most of the non-teacher posters on DCUM would be loathe to pay the taxes required to support this. Same problem with extending the school year so teachers don't have 9 weeks furloughed and students don't lose skills over the summer. Same with doing what happens in most other developed countries and providing teachers with more planning hours during the actual day and decreasing the contact hours to around 4.5 rather than 6 in most elementary buildings by hiring additional specials staff to free up that extra lesson planning time. The US is never going to consent to pay for that though so instead we spend billions to test prep companies, textbook multinationals, and my new favorite phrase "the school failure industry" and we'll never, ever get better because good teaching doesn't get dictated.[/quote]

Depends on the paper. I give a quick check every other day and a quiz every 4 days on average. The quick checks are usually on a quarter or half sheet of paper (because my school runs out of paper midway through the first quarter and I have to buy the rest out of my own pocket) so those are pretty fast to grade. The quizzes might take me anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes per student if there is a paragraph section. The 2-3 essays and 2-3 projects every marking period take about 10 minutes per student to grade.

But sure, I'd love for someone else to:
--stand in front of the copy machine every day
--laminate my reusable materials
--inventory my textbooks twice a school year
--enter my grades into the computer program
--and do all of the other tasks that don't require a graduate degree in education.[/quote]

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