planning teaching...should i still be working?

NOPE just thinking teaching as a service and then perform ur task ..just LOVE your work first

As far as I am aware slavery went out the door many years ago and think it was a cruel way of treating people in the first place. Maybe if you look at it differently....do you enjoy what you are doing? What subjects do you teach? I must say I do prefer to get paid for the work I do, but some jobs take it a step further and this comes with the type of work involved.

In the US teachers are free to leave teaching and go into other careers. Is it the same in the UK? What about going back to school for a degree in another area to teach so you could get out of our current job. I am working part time for a health related industry and have attended many training session and it would have been nice to have a teacher running the session instead of some one reading from a book or manual. There are other careers that utilize your teaching skills.

Indeed it was but could you imagine the control you would have over your class if you didn't really know where you were at. I didn't realise you were in the UK. Where abouts are you at? I am in Scotland.

This is the main reason why i decided to stop teaching... it just takes up too much of my time inside and outside the school... i love teaching... but right now... my priorities have changed... If schools can devise a way to lessen the load/paper work of teachers... i would go back to teaching in a heartbeat... but i don't see that happening in the future...

I am also a teacher, not working at moment though as about to have baby. A teachers job is never complete, if you let yourself you could work 24 hours a day. Some days I think you need to set yourself limits on how much work you do, so you don't overwork yourself. However somedays I enjoyed staying up late planning, as I am motivated about what I was teaching. How long have you been teaching for and what do you teach? I think the longer you teach for it becomes a bit easier, but I remember many late nights when I first started teaching. I have now been teaching for 5 years.

i think if you work for free it will be good to help everyone, but we cannot even till sometimes, we need also for our self.helping people is great idea for all of us, but not all the time.

Teachers are professionals which means they are going to have to at some point take work home and plan, etc. Now, I do agree teacher should be paid as much as doctors and lawyers because guess? They usually have as much stress and/or work load. I've never seen a doctor see 25 patients at one time, but guess? A teacher generally has to teach 25 students (or more) and most have different need regarding learning the content. So, why don't teachers get paid more? However there is long vacations, and breaks, and snow days (if it snows where you live) :D Pablo

Geesh, I know exactly what you're talking about:) I guess often our wanting to do the best we can takes us a bit over what we would be able to do during the work hours. But it's so much more than that too. JUst that the don't call it slavery - they try to pass it as pride in our work LOL

I homeschool my children so I am usually up late planning lessons and I am always doing it for free. However, I don't think that teachers in public schools should be expected to take work home with them as they should have time to do it at work.

I am teacher by trade too. I am here am playing on the computer and take little home with me each night. I use a very simple system to check in homework (teaching elementary makes a difference) and use every minute of my planning time to prepare for the afternoon, the next morning or next week. What level/topic do you teach? Maybe I can give some suggestions!

Yes! I think you should be responsible for your students. I am a chinese student. I am now studing in college. I am thinking of teaching abroad. As my family is not rich enough to sent me abroad for studying, the only way is to work abroad. I am a English major. I think I can be a chinese teacher abroad. I hope you can be a good teacher.

Planning is definitely part of your prescribed work. Before I started teaching I got the syllabus for the whole course. It consisted of 40 lectures of one and a half hours each. I decided to prepare the teaching notes to the 40 lectures. The subject was "FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT". It took me nearly 6 months to complete. I found my notes very helpful. I taught the subject in five colleges for nine years. I dlivered those lectures to more than 3,500 students who were mainly older than me at the time. It was an excellent investment.

I know what your talking about....My husband works for a big construction company. He supervises the jobs...Then has to come home and do paperwork,emails, phone calls...He gets a flat pay for a week.....Based on a 40 hour week...Anything over 40 hours is free to his company..When he fills out his timesheet he can only put 40 hours....Something is just not fair here....