why would teachers like us to believe that in the school holidays they are marking papers dont think so do you

Answer 1

I'm a teacher, I don't grade over holidays. Some might...they are nuts!

Answer 2

Excuse me, prof. I've just spent the last hour marking coursework. These essays are, on average, 4 to 6 sides of A4 long. In one hour, I've marked 4. They have to be done properly. Examiners are so lazy now, every assessment objective has to be flagged up. Gone are the days when you just put a tick, grade a comment on the end of an essay.

Once the marking is done, I'll start on the planning for next year. I'm not complaining - we do get great holidays. But most decent teachers will be working for some of the holidays.

So there. Don't be so cheeky!

Answer 3

I work for some of my holiday. Some of it I relax.

People who work in various industries get different 'perks'. Most graduate careers would have (based on what my friends get) company cars, end-of-year bonuses of a few thousand pounds, discounts on some products, higher wages, free gym etc'.

I don't get these things. My one and only perk is guaranteed time off in the summer. I am not ashamed of that fact; if anyone wants to swap jobs they can try doing without enough money to buy their house and raise a family in exchange for a few weeks of sunshine.

Out of the summer, I spend about 1/4 to 1/3 working, and between 2/3 and 3/4 'free'. It is the ONLY perk of my underpaid job, which I do because I like- not because of the holidays. The work I do is marking, planning for the year ahead based on exam results, getting all my finance stuff (for my schooltrips etc') sorted, creating displays in classrooms and making sure everything will run smoothly when the kids come back. I also need to do a lot of paperwork and data entry.

I have worked in industry and always had several days paid leave left at the end of every year because I didn't need to take the time off because I wasn't tired. Trust me, working with kids wears you out, and kids get worn out- THEY need the holidays. The school system was set up to optimise their learning, hence the summer timing of the break (kids don't learn well in the heat).

Answer 4

As a teacher, I can tell you that yes, I do spend school holidays grading papers and doing paperwork I can't do during the school day. In the summer, we do have a lot of time off, but in order to raise our salaries, and get better at our jobs, we have to take a variety of courses which we have to pay for ourselves. There are some teachers out there who divorce themselves 100% from the job over the holidays, many of them for good reasons, and a few because they truly don't care. Thankfully, those are in the vast minority. However, as a teacher, I feel I must apologize to you, as it seems that every English teacher you ever had let you down terribly on ensuring your spelling and grammar were up to scratch. Eight, possibly nine, errors in a twenty-one-word stretch is appalling, regardless of the medium.

Answer 5

Errr...well actually, yeah. Had a friend who was a teacher and she was very often stuck indoors marking papers for much of the summer, and also writing up all the administration that is now a part of the teaching job description here in the UK. Sure, technically, they're free to spend their summer break how they like, but that's on the understanding that the "homework" gets done, and a whole hell of a lot of 'em lead by example even though their students aren't there to witness it.

Answer 6

teachers work alot more hours than just the ones that the school doors are open. The majority of teachers work very long and hard hours away from school researching lesson plans , learning more about their chosen subject, reading materials they might consider for the classroom, searching stores for various helpful items that will enhance their lessons and spending time reading reports, grading papers and coming up with work sheets and tests.

Why do they do all that? So that when they are in the classroom you will be able to understand the lessons the best way possible and actually learn what they are trying to teach you.

Answer 7

It depends on what you mean by "marking papers".

Yes, teachers do take time away from school, but that doesn't mean that we teachers are able to enjoy the entire holidays away from school matters.

Inevitably, a part of your holidays is spent: tidying up the classroom, moving classrooms/schools, preparing curricula, completing administrative matters, setting up course outlines, preparing materials for teaching new courses (in the case of elementary and secondary school teachers: sometimes this material can be completely outside one's area of expertise) and so on.

And, for a good number of us, we never are really able to "leave the classroom" -- we spend the holidays thinking of new ways to approach the instruction of material.

Answer 8

I grade papers all the time during the school year, which would include fall break, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring break, but I don't grade papers in the summer when school is over for the year. During the summer I prepare for the following year, take a class, and replenish my energy for the fall. If it weren't for the ten weeks of summer I have to recover, I would get a year-round job with no work to take home and less daily stress.

Answer 9

My sister is a teacher and she does have to do a lot of marking outside the school day.

She does get to spend most of the day with family; but she still has to do a few hours in the evening.

I don't feel so bad for her; because she does get summer off.

When I go home at the end of a workday I rarely have to bring work home (if I do the hours are banked for plus time day off); but I almost NEVER have to work extra. But I do work all summer :)

Answer 10

Well, sometimes they are especially during Christmas and Easter holidays plus the half terms Oh and during weekends and if they're not doing that then they're busy planning lessons, writing handouts and generally geeing themselves up for inevitable OFSTED inspection. During the summer they ought to get a break but don't actually seem to as they need to around in the middle of it to see students about their GCSE or A level results and towards the end of it to enrol students onto courses etc. Or is it less frenetic in schools as opposed to further education?
Be terrific if they had time for their families.

Answer 11

i was a teacher and spent a lot of time on holidays grading papers and recording and calculating grades. you should become a teacher. Not every teacher does this on every holiday but speaking from experience, i certainly did. Teaching is a lot of work and there is a lot of paper grading. You should become a teacher.