TEACHERS: what does your daily schedule look like?

50-65 m/p/w

46year old male high school science dept. head

4:00am (alarm) run from 4:40-5:40

6:10-6:45 drive to work

7:00-7:45 prepare for the day in a relaxed way

8:00-2:00 teach 4 biology and 1 chemistry class with 45 minutes for lunch and break (no kids)

2:00-3:15 meetings/prep time

practice til 5:00pm

home by 6:00

eat and drink til 8:30

repeat

enjoy your summer folks - you earned it and God bless PE teachers I would hate that all they do is complain how much the kids hate to xcercise, coaching is fun but you don't always get to run or you may have to run real slow - uncomfortably so

SLOINNORCAL wrote:

Bullshit.

I can teach three different math levels and still prep everything in my one prep period. If you actually know what the hell you're teaching its easy. And, AP classes are even easier to prep since presentation is of lesser importance (meaning: the students actually are interested in the class for the sake of the class).

Good for you! By the way, many AP/IB students are NOT in the classes because they are interested. They are there because they believe they need to be for college or are forced there by parents. They can be the most unmotivated and frustrating students to teach.

Also: Nice use of "bullshit." I'm sure the young readers of LetsRun are kissing your feet, you wonderful role model.

the clarifier wrote:

Good for you! By the way, many AP/IB students are NOT in the classes because they are interested. They are there because they believe they need to be for college or are forced there by parents. They can be the most unmotivated and frustrating students to teach.

Also: Nice use of "bullshit." I'm sure the young readers of LetsRun are kissing your feet, you wonderful role model.

Who cares if he swears on here? I swear all the time in my personal life, but never in a teaching situation.

Check back with me in September. Right now I'm busy preparing for a 2 month paid vacation from teaching. I deserve this vacation because I work harder than the taxpayers who pay my salary. Suckers!

Actually a teacher wrote:

Wake up 8am

Teach 8:30-3pm

Watch TV/Run 3pm-5pm

Dinner 5pm-6pm

Think of ways to rob from the tax payers 6-10

Boozing 10-2

Sleeping 2-8

Idiot! Clearly not a teacher.

I am at school for 8.

Start teaching at 8.40.

On average I don't leave until 6:30pm.

Usually spend 4 or 5 hours at weekend marking and planning.

55 hour weeks. Not much time for running!

My schedule for the Fall as I only Coach XC:

Wake up 4:50am and do easy 30 to 40 minutes and leave my place by 6:15am

Get to school for 7:15am and start teaching at 8am.

Practice goes from 3:15pm to 5:30pm. I drive to a local park not far from the school and run usually for an hour or more or I do a workout at the track. Sometimes I run with my students to kill two birds with one stone.

Get home by 7:30pm and in bed by 9:30pm.

When I don't coach I can usually get home by 5:30pm or 6pm and then run.

Don't know mileage but I run about 100mins a day.

It's exhausting if done correctly. My biggest suggestion is to have huge summer in terms of mileage and then peak for mid to late Oct. when the teaching starts to ramp up. Then take November off and start running once a day in December and don't start doubling again until late Feb or early March and peak for May or early June.

Good luck and keep smiling!

Hell, prure freaking hell.

hi

Deanouk wrote:

Actually a teacher wrote:

Wake up 8am

Teach 8:30-3pm

Watch TV/Run 3pm-5pm

Dinner 5pm-6pm

Think of ways to rob from the tax payers 6-10

Boozing 10-2

Sleeping 2-8

Idiot! Clearly not a teacher.

I am at school for 8.

Start teaching at 8.40.

On average I don't leave until 6:30pm.

Usually spend 4 or 5 hours at weekend marking and planning.

55 hour weeks. Not much time for running!

Thanks for responding to my post from 4 years ago. Yes, you are right, I am not a teacher. Very keen observation. 4 years ago I was a law-school dropout and a part time internet troll. I have matured in those 4 years. I have learned the era of my ways. Good thing we have very observent and sharp teachers to identify my lies from 4 years ago. I was worried I did too much harm.

As a teacher you have some control over your workload. Guidelines:

1) Don't give out more homework, quizzes, tests, etc. than you can/want to grade. I learned this the hard way as an English teacher. Try to pick a subject that is easy to grade and a manner that is easy to grade it.

1b) Don't give work a lot of weight/points. Students and parents don't get hyped up if they think an assignment is worth a few points. Even though percentage wise it has the same influence on their grade if everything you do does not carry a lot of points.

2) Plan at school. Grade at school. Taking things home is often a waste of time and seldom works as planned if anyone else is around. Don't create so much work for you and your students that you can't get it done at school.

3) Many teachers think their subject is important which often leads to too much homework, quizzes and tests for students. Lighten up their workload and you will be loved. Statistically, a good quiz will tell you as much as a good test about student understanding of the subject matter. A test just takes it out to a few more decimal points.

Training wise, I would train before and after school when I only had one child. Once I had two - five, I was down to training before school from 5-6:30 and then at work by 7. Weekends, summers and good time off at holidays can help with training and racing.

PS coaching helped me move from elementary to middle to high school positions giving me even more flexibility and exempted me from some dreaded faculty meetings.

5 am--wake up crying

5:30-6:15- stumble through exhausting easy run

6:30-7:45-breakfast and a call to my mother asking her why the fxxk I chose this profession

8-3--the daily emotional onslaught of being "a teacher" at an urban sewer of a school in the age of common core

3-5--speed home and fall into a semi-conscious stupor

5-6 attempt another run, end up at bar

6-7 -- order Dominos

7:30 bed

Once you get married and have kids, these are going to be your 3 hats:

Husband/Father

Teacher

Runner

You are only going to have time to be good at 2 of these. Choose wisely.

that tired guy wrote:

Once you get married and have kids, these are going to be your 3 hats:

Husband/Father

Teacher

Runner

You are only going to have time to be good at 2 of these. Choose wisely.

Not necessarily.

I wake up at 5 to run, am on the roads by 5:30. Finish up by 6:45, when my wife leaves to go to work. Out of the shower by 7:00 and then dress, feed and play with my kids until we leave at 8:15 (they are 4 and 2).

I have a 75 minute planning period during the day, 45-60ish of what's "real" work as I plan/modify lessons, etc. (I'm a PE teacher).

I leave work at 4:15pm and then head for another run right before dinner. Then I have 2-3 hours of spending time with my kids, before they go to bed and I head to bed a couple of hours after that.

Three days a week, I coach cross country or having running club (elementary). It's a very busy schedule but it can be done. If I was a classroom teacher, I'd have less free time but I could find time to make it work, if I really wanted. That may mean an hour less of sleep a night, but that's anywhere 8-9 miles.

Why do you losers practice for 3 hours during the summer and during the season? My god, could you be any less efficient?