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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours  on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

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Mondays are still a complete waste of time. Notice no teaching actually happens. You can list your Monday plans all day. Kids are not learning on Monday. Full stop. [/quote]

If kids are not learning, how is it a waste of time. Don’t log in. If any of you think it takes 40 hours of week to learn that is the problem. In a regular year, Kids are only actively being taught at most 3 hours per day anyway! And learning is even less time.[/quote]

Geez so how much do teachers make per hour of actual teaching time if that’s the case? It’s got to be higher per hour than all other tax payer funded positions etc maybe the top positions in government with all the breaks, holidays, and the summers. I’m in the wrong profession. [/quote]

You’re right. You are. Please quit and join us here in teaching where we make exorbitantly luxurious salaries and barely work. You’ll of course only get “credit” for the forward facing parts people see who believe somehow lessons just happen with no work done in the background, no resources created, and no other professional obligations that must be met. You can have advanced degrees and make like 70k, I can’t encourage it enough. Please leave your low paying low respect job and join teaching!’ [/quote]

DP  Genuinely curious - how much time do you spend working in the background during breaks, particularly during summer break?[/quote]

It’s not done during breaks. It’s done during planning time, or, more usually, on the weekend. You don’t think we just roll into each week with materials handed to us right? You don’t think someone else does that grading? We teach all but one block a day. In that time, we have to create lessons and materials, assess it, differentiate it , build scaffolds for students , and don’t get me started on the million other tasks we have to do from admin. It ALL has to get done and *you never see any of it* because like a lot of things, there’s tons of unglamorous background work that goes into making the final product look easy and effortless. I can’t do that on summer break/ it has to be done AS we teach all year long. [/quote]

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