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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Can I ask a follow up question for th HS teachers?  My kids often say they spent a class period working independently or in small groups.  I had assumed teachers used that time for grading.  Is that incorrect[/b]?

I am thinking about this for a late career switch.  My brother did it in his 50s and is now retiring at 67; he really loved it.  My own kids are mostly grown and I spend much of the day working with AHs currently so I feel lol my tolerance is probably high.  Plus I am super familiar with the pointless bureaucracy that is our public school system.I have spent a lot of time volunteering with kids and teens in scouts and I really love spending time with them.  They are such a hoot. I miss it now that my kids are aging out of all those activities.  I also have kids with SN and spent a lot of the last two decades reading books and studies about different learning styles.

I think the early mornings and the loss of flexibility schedule would be really hard though.  [/quote]

In my math classroom, it would be incorrect--I can't speak to all others.

If kids are working independently, I'm circulating, poking the sleeping ones, checking in with my normal strugglers, answering questions, verifying answers as kids work, or explaining the next task to my quick finishers. I'm sitting with the kid(s) who were absent last class to review that lesson, checking in with the ones who are failing to see where they are on their "academic come back" plan, writing a referral and contacting security for the phone Larlo has in his lap, and eventually pulling the kids I see completely off task to come sit in the back with me to do the assignment together on white boards, because their papers are turning into airplanes and snowballs and distracting other students. (Yes, even in high school.  Yes, even in honors or AP.)

I get 0 grading done during a regular class, except on test days. Then I try to have tests on a clipboard as students turn them in that I can start to work through as I circulate the room to prevent cheating/find phones/make sure eyeballs stay on their own paper.

All grading is done after school lets out for the day.[/quote]

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