- Write assessment reports on students for parents.
- Write department action plans.
- Complete SEN reports on selected students.
- Complete CPD in electronics and CS to upskill in the subjects I taught.
- Prototype new projects that the students would engage with in the future.
I could go on. For about every hour I spent actually teaching in a classroom, there was half an hour spent planning, assessing or completing admin work. I regularly worked 12 hour days, plus weekends, and all those long holiday that we were supposed to get.
That was my morning, my evenings, my weekends and my "holidays". I could have added more to the list. Teaching is not about babysitting kids for 60 minutes while you scroll though a PowerPoint.
I know obviously that it isn't. If only because when I went to school there was no PowerPoint and I am old enough to have TA'd on a blackboard with chalk.
It also didn't include anything that had to be done in the morning such as commuting. I am not suggesting that school should start at 7:15 but, if school began and ended earlier, all of those activities could be moved after school ended (possibly to the previous day).
