As teachers we do some of our school work at home. When do you do it so you have personal time?

Answer 1

As with all professions you must find a balance. Try to do all your work at school, during your spare.

Answer 2

Honestly speaking, I don't know too. Based on my experience, I lost a lot of weight because of teaching. However, when I compared my 5 years of teaching, there are some things I learned. On my first three years of teaching, I tried doing most of the stuff at school but really, a lot of things still needed doing at home (preparing the lesson for the next day, checking papers etc.) However, I had more free time because I taught in college. My next experience made me thin. I wonder how the veteran teachers manage their time. I handled 7 sections in high school. 2 first year regulars, 1 belonging to the most unruly group, 4 second years, 1 third year, and oh they are all boys.It was an exclusive boys school. Well, the ending? I got fired is the more appropriate term together with 4 others or maybe 5 newbies. We resigned technically but it's better than saying they fired us. It was tough. I still have the trauma. Don't ask me why.

In my succeeding two years or let's say almost 2, I had more time specially with my last months of teaching. Why? The school helped a lot as compared to the one where I was traumatized and my co-teachers were nice including my coordinator. It also helped that my students belonged to the upper sections and they were in their graduating year. I finished what I could finish at school and the rest at home. The only tough times were when we give exams and quizzes. The school and it's officials are also
some main factors to consider. Sometimes, they just make our life miserable (I think).

Now? Plain housewife, I have a problem with my health.

Answer 3

A wise teacher once told me (I was a student teacher at the time) to NEVER take my work home with me - do whatever it took to do it at school. I've tried it both ways and I would rather leave it at school (so what if students don't have their grades back in 24 hours... I do get to it in a timely fashion to catch problems I see they are having...). Once you have a family doing it at home is a joke anyway. Also, find ways to grade students once in a while on things other than written work. That way you can immediately enter a grade.

Answer 4

Many of my teachers do their school work in school. What you do is give your students an in class assignment or let them start their homework early and during that time you grade their homework and tests. If you still have to bring some home then grade tests on the weekend and not during the week (because tests if not scantron can take a while to grade). If you cant grade all the homework in school then grade it while watching your favorite tv show each night since homework doesent take as much effort or concentration to grade as tests.

Answer 5

If you have a planning time, do some in school. If you have a husband or someone else who lives with you , get them to mark papers. Also, a time saver, get yourself a printer/copier, Lexmark has them fairly cheap. But above all else, make time for yourself. You need to wind down, and can't think about teaching 24/7. even if you're completely drained, and we are, go shopping, not groceries, but buy new clothes ,or a great perfume, take a long bath, sing Karaoke. You have to make time for you, have fun, adult fun, and at least one day of the week, don't think about other peoples children. Take this advice from someone who has been teaching in the inner-city for over 30 years.

Answer 6

The students are at shcool for five hours and I am at school for eight hours. The extra 3 hours is sufficient for most times. One quiet hour before classes and two hours after and I'm still home close to 5PM. Sometimes there is a spare as a bonus.

Answer 7

I do stay late each night to get things done. I'd rather go ahead and stay at school until 6:00, get all I need to do done and have the rest of the evening with my family. If I do have extra reports (I teach Special Ed., so I also have IEP's and alternative state testing portfolios to do), I allot an afternoon on the weekends when I close myself in my "office" and do it. My family knows that if they don't bug me, I'll get it done that much sooner. My home life is important to me.

Answer 8

I am a teacher.

The trade off for all the take home work (grading, planning, etc.) is June, July, and August.

I think it is a fair trade. I do hate when people harass teachers about having the summer off. My response is to ask them if they give 1-2 hours a night of unpaid time to their jobs. Few have a comeback for that argument.

Answer 9

I do it on Sunday mornings/afternoons. That's when I plan for the whole week (and then I make alterations throughout if necessary). I try to take papers home to grade, but they usually just end up riding home with me in the car and staying there.

Answer 10

You have GOT to learn how to get it done at school. Too many teachers fall into that trap and get burned out. You need to separate work from home.

Answer 11

As far as I know, my teachers' do their school work strictly at school so they can go home and have some me time.
But then, students wait FOREVER and a day to get grades back.
Then again, some teachers are awesome and get it all done.

Do what works best hun.