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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you only teach 3 classes per day, you are a PT employee. I have 5 classes per day and one planning period of 45 mins and a 30 min lunch. I cannot plan for 5 classes each day and grade in 45 mins. It is not possible. The salaries in this area aren't as low as some other states but this area is $$$$. My kids qualified for reduced priced meals and free preschool the first few years I worked in this area.[/quote]

No if you are on block scheduling that's a full time schedule. 3 classes of teaching, 1 of planning each day. A duty is also included on one of those A or B days so that day is 2 classes and 1 duty, and 1 planning. If you are on traditional scheduling still, you would teach 4-5 of those 6 blocks which is equal to us teaching 3/4. [/quote]

I teach at a school with block scheduling, and this is not the way my schedule works at all.  Our "constant" period is 3rd period, so I see that class every day.  Therefore, on "A" days, I teach 1st, 3rd, 5th, and remediation block. I have planning and meetings during 7th block.  On "B" days, I teach 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and remediation block. I have planning and meetings during 6th block. If we didn't have block, that would mean I'd teach periods 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, with planning/meetings during periods 6 and 7.

It is not the number of class periods taught that is challenging; it is the number of hours of instruction. Planning for 90-minute blocks isn't easier than planning for two 45-minute periods, so it is a ridiculous argument to say teachers "only" teach three periods per day. I have students in my classroom for all but 110 minutes of the day. Of those 110 minutes, I generally have meetings for 60-90 minutes. That leaves me 20-50 minutes of planning/lunch/bathroom time per day. [/quote]

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