Wow. Well....a MONTH LATER...

I'm going to go ahead and record this week's hours and THEN in a post tomorrow I'll try to recap the last four weeks.  I has some family hardships this month--my grandfather went into the hospital on the second of November and ended up dying on the 11th.  The week following his death I was not at school much and then we had Thanksgiving---man. Gone so fast! But, I DID keep track of the hours on at least one of the weeks I didn't post.

Monday

To school at 7:00.  Left at 3:00.  8 hours.
Worked on grading from 7:45-10:00. 2.25 hours
Total: 10.25 hours

Tuesday

To school at 7:15.  Left at 3:15. 8 hours.
Worked at home from 7-8. 1 hour.

9 111hours.

Wednesday


To school at 7:00.  Left at 5:00.  10 hours.
Worked on planning and grading from 7-8:30. 1.5 hours
Total: 11.5 hours

Thursday

To school at 7:15.  Left at 4:00.  8.75 hours.
Worked on planning and grading from 7:30-8:30. 1 hour
Total: 9.75 hours
  
Total Monday through Thursday:  40.5 hours worked
Total hours worked this year: 587 hours
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $76.29 per hour

Catching up....

*blushing*

Obviously it was a busy week. I haven't taken a "day off" since lat Sunday.

Tuesday: Worked 7:00-4:00 9 hours.  Came home and planned/created for an additional hour.  10 total.

Wednesday:  Worked 7:15-4:00.  8.75 hours.  I can't remember working that evening, so I can't write it down in good conscience.

Thursday:  Worked 7:15-4:30.  9.25 hours.

Friday:  Worked 7:15-3:00.  I was at work until 8:30 in the evening working with my student group, but, again, since I get additional pay for that, I won't include those hours.   7.75 hours.

Saturday 1 hour meeting with coworker.  Then an evening assignment creation session for an hour.  2 hours total.

Today I worked for 2 hours grading and 1.5 hours planning/creating.  3.5 hours total.

Total Tuesday through Sunday:  42.25 hours worked
Total hours worked this year: 546.50 hours
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $81.95 per hour 

I'll try to keep this a bit more up to date this week.  I'll have A TON of after school hours spent grading FOR SURE!!!  I've got constructed responses to grade tomorrow as well as some essays to get finished.  In class tomorrow I'm just using a bit of Poe to creep them out. :)

PT Conferences...

I like getting to sleep in a little bit like I did today.  Because of conferences I got to work at 9:45 and stayed until 5:00. (7.25 hours)  Then I worked from about 7:45 until 9:15. (1.5 hours)

Total hours worked today 8.75 hours
Total hours worked this year: 504.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $88.81 per hour

I'm glad to be into second quarter. October always FLIES by and I'm already ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas break.  It's going to be a fun few days though coming up...lots of fun stories to read. :)

Wednesday and Thursday.

Wednesday went from 7-3:30 at school and then, once home, from about 4 until 9:30.  Seriously. Grading, writing a reading, sub plans, writing questions for a reading.

Total hours there, 14. Wow.

Total hours Wednesday 14
Total hours worked this year: 495.50
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $90.38 per hour

I got to work at 6:15 this morning.  No joke.  Leaving at 1:00 on the DOT and definitely not working at all until Saturday...if not Sunday. Praise God!

Total Hours Thursday  6.75 hours
Total hours worked this year: 502.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $89.16 per hour

Two more long days down...

Tuesday I got to school at 7:00.  I had a meeting after school and so I stayed until 4:00.  9 hours.  I then worked for 2 hours grading and planning.  :)

Wednesday isn't over yet, but I got here at 7:00 again. Woot. I'll be leaving at 3:15, but I have a TON of grading to do after that and some planning for my sub on Friday.  I will have grades POSTED by tomorrow at this time though. I can't really believe we're already a quarter of the way through the school year. Insanity.

Total hours Tuesday 11
Total hours worked this year: 481.50
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $93.00 per hour

I'll update Wednesday's total tonight at bedtime or tomorrow. :)

End of Quarter=Sucks

Got to work at 7:15.  Left at 3:15 to get home to the puppy! :) Yay!

Worked at home from 7:30 until 9:45.

Total hours today 10.25
Total hours worked this year: 470.50
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $95.18 per hour 

On the bright side, I have the sweetest pooch on the planet. :)

Working the weekend...

Saturday and Sunday were both work filled.

Saturday I spent about 3 hours creating a reading companion for the novel my advanced class is reading. Yeah.

Sunday...we went to work to plan some things for my coordinator job, so I won't post about those hours, but once home with lunch done and eaten I started working around 2:00pm.  I'm just finishing up at 9:45, but, of course, the time was not spent working 100% of that time. I definitely was on task from 2-3, 3:30-5:00, 6:30-9.  5 hours.

Total weekend hours 8
Total hours worked this year: 460.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $97.30 per hour 


I've got the last 25 minutes of Thursday off as well as Friday, AND it's the end of the quarter.  This week might be hell until I'm in the car on the way to visit the family. 
 

Thursday and Friday...

Thursday I got to work only a little early--7:15.  Left school at 3:15. I had a TON of planning to do...Did some of that this evening, too, although I didn't get it all finished. Have to do some tomorrow, I guess. Worked an additional hour once home. 9 hours total.

Friday I got to work at 7:15.  I left at 3:15.  No planning after school. YEAH! :) 8 hours.

Total hours worked over two days 17
Total hours worked this year: 452.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $99.02 per hour 


LOTS to do this weekend...Oy.

Wednesday is a full day.

Got to school at 7:15. Left at 3:15. 8 hours at school.

I've been going home to see the new puppy at my house!

I started planning and creating things at about 7:30 and worked until 10:30.

Total hours worked  11
Total hours worked this year: 435.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $102.89 per hour 

It's already almost the end of the day Thursday.  Lunch time...woot woot. :)

Tuesday.

I got to school at 7:00 today only to find that all systems were down--meaning, I couldn't print my plans or the materials the students needed for the day.  Soooo annoying.  Instead of stressing over how to go "on with the show", I just thought, SHOW A MOVIE. 

I did.  For the first time in 4 years, I showed a movie for pretty much no reason at all other than technology stinks sometimes. Kids were hype.  :)  It was actually alright timing, too.  We're breaking from essay writing and heading into some reading skills and practice. 

I left school at 3:15.  Once home, I graded from about 5:00-6:00.  Made dinner.  Ate.  Graded and planned from 7:00-(at least) 10:00.

Total hours today  12.25 hours
Total hours worked this year: 424.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $105.56 per hour

Monday...a day late.

I got to school yesterday at 7:15.  I left at 3:15.

Once home, I graded for a half hour before going to a rehearsal.  After coming home and eating, I graded more and planned from 8:30-10:30--another two hours.

Total hours today  10.5 hours
Total hours worked this year: 412
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $108.70 per hour

Again...I'm behind. Oy.

THURSDAY
Got to work at 7:30 and left at 3:30.  Pretty "easy" day overall. :) Yay!

8 hours

FRIDAY
Got to work at 7:15.  Left early since I was going out of town.  Left the building at 1:15.

6 hours

SUNDAY
Graded and planned in the car on the way home, but I also have a new puppy, so I didn't do much there.

.5 hours of planning
1.5 hours of grading once home

It was a late night.

Total hours Thursday/Friday/Sunday 16 hours
Total hours worked this year: 401.5
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $111.54 per hour

It's the middle of the week...

Got to school at 7:15.  Staff meeting until 3:45 and a conversation to plan the next steps in a unit until about 4:30.  I did stay for a volleyball game after that, but I won't count those "fun" minutes. :)  I do enjoy watching and I didn't even grade as I sat there!

Once home, I planned for an hour.


Total hours today 10.25 hours
Total hours worked this year: 385.50
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $116.17 per hour

So glad the end of the week is in sight.  I'm going out of town on Friday at about 1:00, so I will have an abbreviated week--though only by about an hour and a half. :)  Tomorrow will be the beginning of a major assignment for the kiddos...I hope they do well. 

Tuesday

Early morning today. I got to school at 6:45 to make copies and get things in order for the day after staying up until MIDNIGHT!!! Oy.

I honestly didn't LEAVE the building until 6:30, but since some of those hours were related to my leadership in a student group that I receive a small stipend for, I won't count those hours.  My "teacher only" day ended at 4:00 after my Language Arts meeting.  Then, once home, I planned and created from 7:30 until 9:30. 

Total hours today 11.25 hours
Total hours worked this year: 375.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $119.34 per hour

OMGoodness.

Got to school at 7:30 and was there teaching/planning/meeting until 4:00.  8.5 hours at school

The life of a teacher includes realizing on certain days that your students are lost.  On days like that, I have to rethink what we need to do next.  Often that includes creating something new...today was such a day.  My students STRUGGLED with the content so I took their work from class today and created a student work evaluation activity based on it.  Then, I designed a partner activity to use as closure.  Both things I haven't done before.  It's been a LOOONG evening.

Got home and had non-professional things to do from 4-7:45.  Started grading/planning/creating at 7:45.  I'm finishing all that stuff RIGHT NOW. 11:15. 3.5 hours at home.

Hours worked today  12
Total hours worked this year: 364
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $123.03 per hour

I'm going to be tired tomorrow.  Please, classroom gods, make tomorrow a day in which students engage with the material and something clicks for them.  I don't really know how else to explain this topic. Feeling at a loss. :(

Sunday Work!

Despite having EVERY intention of working yesterday, I didn't. 

Started planning today at about 2:30.  Finished planning around 4:30.  2 hours of planning early.
Graded from 4:45-7:00.  2.25 hours of grading.
Dinner, etc.
Graded 7:45-8:15.   .5 hours of grading.
Now I've got to plan more. Bleh.  I will STOP at 10:00. That's one hour and a bit from now. I'll just count an hour.

Total hours today 5.75
Total hours worked this year: 352
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $127.23 per hour 

Each day's impact on the pay per hour is definitely tapering off.  What I'm noticing though is that my hours worked per week is still pretty high despite not grading as much as I should during the week. This is only going to get worse for me. I need to make it a priority. *Sigh*

Friday...Bleh.

Had a terrible end to an otherwise okay day.  I'm going to blame Friday.  Kids were a bit out of control and I took it personally. I know I shouldn't, but it's hard to feel good about the job you're doing on a day like this. :(

Got to school right around 7:30 and left at 3:30...much later than usual because I was upset about my final hour of school. Boo.


Today's hours 8
Total hours worked this year: 346.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $129.34 per hour  

Thursday

Yikes. I'm behind! :(

Got to school early so I could get things done before kiddos arrived.  Left fairly early to get in a workout before my nephew's football game. 7:15-3:30.

Hours today 8.25 hours
Total hours worked this year: 338.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $132.40 per hour  
 

A day of field trip excitement...

I got to school at 6:45. Word. Had lots to do before the field trip.

Left school VERY TIRED at 4:15.  9.25 hours at school.  Then an hour of planning at home. 10.25 hour day.

Total hours worked this year: 330
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $135.71 per hour   

Good times.  Just one full day left this week, thank goodness. :)

Catching up...Sheesh.

Sunday...

Graded from 3-5.  Went to the gym.  Ate.  Graded again 7-9.  Planned/created things 9-10:30.

Sunday hours...5.5.

Monday...got to work at 7:15.  Left at 4:30. 
Too tired to do ANYTHING else once home from the gym and other things.

Monday....9.25 hours

Tuesday...Got to work at 7:15.  Taught and had a meeting until 4:00.  Then I attended a school football game, but instead of really watching, I graded.  Left the game VERY early, but then went to the store to pick up things for a field trip tomorrow.  I'm counting ALL this time because, technically, I was "working".  Finished at the store around 5:15.  

Got home, went to a family football game (no grading), came back home, ate.  Then...surprise!!!...GRADED from 7:15-9:15.

Tuesday hours.... 12.  HOLY MOLY.

Sunday+Monday+Tuesday=26.75 hours.
Total hours worked this year: 319.75
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $140.06 per hour   

Got to get up SUPER early to get ready for the field trip tomorrow. Jooooooyyyyy! :) I really am excited.   These things can make me nervous though.

Someday soon I hope to write about something more philosophical than just my hours. I'm tired though. Peace.

Friday....but, before a weekend of grading...

TGIF.

Day of hard work for the kiddos today and they did awesome considering it is FRIDAY and the day of our town's big high school football rivalry game. Rock stars!

Got to school a bit on the later side...7:30 but couldn't leave as promptly as usual because I was in charge of an end of the day activity that ended up needing clean up and debriefing.  Left at 3:30 though. Not too shabby.

There was a little grading accomplished throughout the day, but between meeting with my team and getting things ready for the end of day activity, my planning and collaboration periods were taken up. :(  This weekend will be sssssuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr fun. (Or not.)

Today's hours 8
Total hours worked this year: 293
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $152.84 per hour  

Thursday!

Got to work at 7:30 and left at 3:15.  I was technically AT SCHOOL until 5:15, but I was watching some students play volleyball! :) Those hours don't count.

Today's hours 7.75
Total hours worked this year: 285
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $157.14 per hour   

I have SOOOOO much grading to do this weekend. It's sad. :( Oh, well.

Time gets away from me...

Well, Tuesday has come and gone and Wednesday is here now.  I'll combine the two days into one post at the end of the evening. :)

Tuesday I got to work at 7:15.  Had a meeting after school until 4:30.  Long day.  9.25 hours at work.
Once home, I planned and prepped for an hour and a half.
10.75 hours total for the day.

Today I arrived early. Right at 7:00 so I could get some things done before school.  I'll be leaving right around 3:30, but I will have some stuff to do once I get home. Once I know how much I've worked I'll repost.

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I actually ended up staying at school until 3:45 and then not needing to work at home. :) Woot!
So, today's total 7-3:45 is 8.75 hours.  Adding that to yesterday's 10.75 gives us a Tuesday/Wednesday addition of  19.5 hours.

Total hours worked this year: 277.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $161.53 per hour  


Two days left this week. It's already mid-quarter, ladies and gents! Wowzers!

Monday is over.

Thank goodness.  Another Monday done.

Today was a pretty good day.  We got things done.  For, I think, the first time this year the lesson plan I made actually all fit into the class period!  Woot woot!

Got to school at 7:30 and left at 3:00.  Mondays are busy for me so I had to go home early.  Went to the gym and my Monday evening commitment.  Came home, ate dinner and then planned/created things for tomorrow from 7:45-8:30.

Total hours today 8.25
Total hours worked this year: 257.75
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $173.75 per hour  

Because I didn't stay late to do my copying and getting ready at school I will have to get there early and leave late after my meeting. Joy. :)

Weekend work.

Today is Sunday.  I went to school today and was there from 1:00 until 4:00.  3 hours.

Once home, I did my home things (cooked/cleaned/worked out/etc) and then graded for another half hour.

Total hours worked today 3.5
Total hours worked this year: 249.5
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $179.49 per hour 

I did not get nearly everything I wanted to grade graded.  :(   I always feel like a slacker when I put things off but really, I wanted to have a "weekend". To me, that means a break not sitting at home with 120 notebooks...

That means next weekend will be brutal...or perhaps I'll just stay an hour (or two or three) later each night this week.

We shall see.

Oh, Friday....how I love you.

Got to work early on Friday because I had a lot of things still to copy/create/set up.  7:00 arrival.

Had a good day in the classroom...but  a crappy day in general because of other issues.  No matter how hard you work to do the right thing everyday and every minute, I guess you're never good enough. Sucks.

Left at 3:15.

Total hours today 8.25
Total hours worked this year: 246
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $182.05 per hour

Hoping that the week goes well and that my students continue to rock my socks.  They are performing so well on assessments. I am thrilled for them and for us as a group. 85% of my students can do something now that only about 15% of them could do three weeks ago.  So pumped.

Ready for Friday.

Got to school a bit later today...7:30.  Left at 3:15 after a hectic day once again. 7.75 hours

Came home and started planning/creating at 8:45, finished at 9:30. .75 hours

Total hours worked today 8.5
Total hours worked this year: 237.75
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $188.37 per hour

I'm tired. This weekend will be filled with notebook grading, essay grading, and, I hope, some fun, too. :)

A looong day.

Got to school at 7:15 this morning.  It's been a good week for getting my bootay to school on the early side. I like it. :)

Taught/planned/collaborated until the last bell and then attended a meeting after school.  The meeting lasted until 4:00ish after which time I went to talk to my teaching partner about a lesson she recently did.  I was walking out of the building around 4:30.

All in all a good day, though, perhaps a bit long.

Hours worked today  9.25 hours
Total hours worked this year: 229.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $195.35 per hour

Missed a few days....

So, today's entry is going to be cumulative from Sunday to Tuesday. :)

Sunday I went to school and got my stuff so that I could work from home and watch football in the background.

I started grading at 1:15 and finished at about 2:15.  Not too shabby.  Then I planned after a trip to the gym from about 7:00-8:30.

Sunday: 2.5 hours

Monday I got to work fairly early, 7:15 and worked until 3:00. Then went about my day. Got home and planned for about half an hour.

Monday: 8.25 hours

Tuesday I got to school at 7:15 again and left at 3:00.  Had lots of errands to run before 5:00.  I'm headed to the gym soon but will be back home around 7:45 to do some planning for the rest of the week. Woot woot.  So far today, 7.75 hours of work.

Total Sunday/Monday/Tuesday hours worked  18.5 hours
Total hours worked this year: 220
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $203.56 per hour

This is a pretty easy week for me because my students are testing in class which means I'm getting an opportunity to grade while they work.  It's nice, but at the same time, I can only give half of my attention to the grading when students are in the room so I'm working more slowly than I normally would, I think.  Oh, well.  Anything is better than Saturday grading, although, I have a feeling that will be a part of my life this weekend anyway... :)

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Edit: 


I planned for an additional 15 minutes this evening. Not much, so I'm just going to call it good. :)

Going to try to be asleep before 9:30. Too bad the grading can't get done during the day every week. I could get used to this....

Glorious weekend.

Hello out there.

Got to work at 7:15--thank goodness because the server was down and I needed to do a few things to get my stuff printed and copying before kiddos sauntered in at 7:50. Got it done though. :)

Left school early-ish, but not as early as the last two Fridays--3:15.

Total Hours worked today 8
Total hours worked this year: 201.5
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $222.25 per hour

After 12 actual days of school (with children), I've worked over 200 hours...That's ridiculous, really. 

Looong day.

So, I worked an additional 1.5 hours last night grading and planning.  I'll add that with today's numbers.

Got to work at 7:30 and left at 3:30.  8 hours.

Planned for an additional hour once home, plus I need to add the hour and a half from yesterday night.

Total Hours worked today 10.5
Total hours worked this year: 193.5
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $231.44 per hour

I'm so tired. Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday. I'm not sure I could make it another day...

Wednesday Part One...

I'll update the totals later, but wanted to track what work has been done so far.

I go to work earlier this morning because of the change of lesson plans form last night--I had to go in to make copies which means to avoid stress I had to beat the other teachers. :)  I arrived at 7:00.  The school day went fine all was well--had a staff meeting afterward and then a meeting between some other teachers and myself planning some upcoming activities.  Officially, I left school at 5:00.

That's 10 hours.

I still have to plan two lessons for tomorrow and create any and all materials I might need. Joy!

I'll start that after dinner.

Total hours worked this year: 183
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $244.72 per hour

Wowzers...

And it's not done yet...

Got to work at 7:15.  Worked (teaching, planning, grading, meetings) until 4:00.  Graded at school until 5:30.

Went home.  Ate, etc.  Started grading again at 6:45.  Halfway through grading realized that students weren't being successful.  Replanned tomorrow's lesson including student work, handouts and activities. It is now 9:30.

I also have to plan my advanced class still because they won't need this new lesson.  They've been successful and are ready to move on.   I'd say that planning will take me about 30 minutes more, meaning I'll work until about 10:00.

Hours worked today  10.25 before going home...3.25 hours at home.  Total: 13.5 hours
Total hours worked this year: 173
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $258.86 per hour

Tomorrow should be a little better, but I do still have two class periods to grade. 120 students is kicking my boo-tay.

I want to sleep.

Labor Day.... Funday Workday.

I got to work at 1:15 today...  left at 6:30

I really don't like working on weekends, but I just can't get the grading and some of the other "non-planning" projects done in the planning hours and after school hours. Oy. Tomorrow I'm going to have 110 paragraphs to grade in the evening so that I can get my students moving on the things they need to improve upon.  I hate these short deadlines, but I feel like effective teaching happens when we know exactly what students know/can do and move from there.  Wish me luck...tomorrow is going to be a LOOOOONG day both at school and at home grading. 

Hours Worked today 5.25 hours
Total hours worked this year: 159.5
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $280.77 per hour

Friday. Friday. Friday.

Kids were a bit squirrely, but they got their jobs done.

Got to work at 7:15. Left at 3:00. Woohoo!

Hours Worked today 7.75 hours
Total hours worked this year: 154.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $290.33 per hour

Loooooong day. Probably the longest of the year excluding beginning of school stuff.  Back to school night.

Went well despite the aching feet.

Got to school at 7:15 and left at 4:00.  Left to get dinner and returned at 5:00.   Left at 8:00. 

Hours Worked today 11.75 hours
Total hours worked this year: 146.5
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $305.65 per hour 

Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!! Woot woot!

Easy enough.

Wednesday was pretty fast today. Kids were great.  They worked hard and were pretty funny along the way.

Got to work at 7:15.  Left at 4:30.

Hours Worked today 9.25 hours
Total hours worked this year: 134.75
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $332.34 per hour 

The amount of difference a day's work makes in the salary per hour is definitely dwindling.  :)  I'm still making a ton of money per hour according to this, but, sadly, it is only the 6th day of school this year. Yikes.

Tomorrow is Wednesday...the longest day of the week.

Got to school at 7:15.  left at 4:00.

Because I'm not squashed under piles of grading right now I've actually been enjoying my evenings of late. I'm soooooo bummed that this won't last forever. Boo.

Hours Worked today 8.75 hours
Total hours worked this year: 125.50
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $356.84 per hour

Students are still doing awesomely well, especially considering that we're really working hard and it's only been five days.  I'm a firm believer that making kids WORK in your room translates to goo things. :) Yay!

Monday, Monday.

Got to school at 7:10.  Left at 3:40. 8.5 hours.  Tonight I'm doing half an hour's worth of lesson planning, etc. Total of 9 hours.

I'm beat.
Hours Worked today 9 hours
Total hours worked this year: 116.75
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $383.58 per hour

First full week this week. I'm already READY for the long weekend. *Sigh*

Sundays at school.

First Sunday of the new year means I don't have a lot of grading to do, but I have a lot of prep to do. 

I got to school at 11:00am and will be leaving at 2:00 pm.  The departure time is a half hour from now and I have about three things left to do so that will be pretty close to the actual time I walk out the door. 

Additionally, last night I worked an extra 30 minutes on some testing scores that I didn't account for in last night's tally.

Hours Worked today 3.5 hours
Total hours worked this year: 107.75
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $415.62 per hour

Okay, week: Bring it on.

Saturday Night's Alright for Planning Lessons...

That's not exactly how Elton's song goes. Oh, well.

I started a little lesson planning at 8:30 this evening and am finishing up (more like giving up) at 10:30. I'll be at work for hours tomorrow. No sense in staying up any later to work tonight.


Hours Worked today 2 hours
Total hours worked this year: 104.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $429.58 per hour


Weekends are generally the days that make me the most upset that I can't relax and just live the hours. I'm hopeful that this year I will be able to work a little later M-Thurs so that the next week's plans will be done ahead of time.  The grading will always be a thundercloud over my head, but if the planning is finished, my stress levels are mostly calm. 

I've only TAUGHT for three days so far this year. I've already worked quite a lot considering that fact. In fact, according to my contract, I've only been working for NINE days, which means, considering the hours I've put in so far, I have averaged over 11 hours per work day so far this year.  (Remember, too, that I haven't counted upwards of 15 hours of time I've been working with student mentors.) It adds up quickly.

FRIDAY!

Got to work at 7:15. Left promptly at 3:15. No work after school on Fridays!!!

Hours Worked today 8 hours
Total hours worked this year: 102.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $437.98 per hour 

We'll see how much I work over the weekend....

Day Two...

I'm about to head out of the building. A full hour earlier than I did yesterday. Woot woot! :) That's always exciting.  Students were still pretty good even though today was kind of a boring day in some respects. We did our class mission statement and I tried to establish a bit of relevancy for the Language Arts curriculum.

I got to school at 7:30.  I'm leaving at 4:00.  It is so nice to not have anything to grade yet...*sigh* That's all going to change very soon though. :( If only the work didn't have to come home with me.

Hours Worked today 8.5 hours
Total hours worked this year: 94.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $475.16 per hour 

The First Day.

Met 120 new kiddos today.  It was pretty smooth.  I only have one class that might be a little rough because they just LOOOOVE to chat. I'd say I know well over half of the kids by name, too. Yeah!

If I end up working more tonight I will update this again, but, as of now I got to work at 7:00am and I am leaving now. It is 5:00pm. I just finished my lesosn plan and got all my materials gathered. My hope is that tomorrow will be easier since I spent my lunch supervising not eating and half of my planning helping open lockers, etc. I know that's part of my job and I do it willingly, but those types of things are why I'm still here at 5:00. :)

Hours Worked today 10 hours
Total hours worked this year: 85.75
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $522.26 per hour   

Last Day of Summer...

Got to school at 6am, but that was for my student mentor program so I won't count those first two hours.

8-5 working....    8 hours
5-6:30 Dinner
6:30-8:30 Working  2 hours
8:30-9 Travel home
9-10:30 Working   1.5 hours

Hours Worked today 11.5 hours
Total hours worked this year: 75.75
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $591.20 per hour  

I am writing this the day AFTER that LOOOONG day.  We shall see how the first day unfolds. :)

The last Monday with no students...

Got to work at 8:00.  Left at 11:45. =3.75 hours (Ate lunch the break here, AND did a school errand)
Returned at 12:30. Left at 2:30. =2.0 hours
Returned again at 7:30. Left at 9:30. =2.0 hours.

Considering that today is less than 36 hours away from THE BIG DAY, I was NOT at school for very long. I would have stayed longer, but I am arriving at school at 6:00 in the morning for a big orientation event in the morning. I will be there for A. LONG. TIME. TOMORROW.

Totals for today: 7.75 hours
Total hours worked this year: 64.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $697.02 per hour 

A weekend of work...

School is only two full days off now.  Yikes.

I didn't work at all on Saturday since I was throwing a party. Today, I went to work at 1:00 and left around 4:15.   Once home I ate and chilled out a little.  Then I read/planned/brainstormed for 3 hours.

Today I worked 6.25 hours
Total hours worked this year: 56.50
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $792.63 per hour 

Tomorrow is going to be a FULL day...I'm a bit nervous about some of the new stuff I've been pondering. Not sure what will work and what won't.  It's never easy in the first few weeks.

8.18 & 8.19...Two days to catch up on.

Yesterday. At work 8am-4:15pm. 8.25 hours at work plus an hour of at home reading/planning. 9.25 hours.

Today. At work 8am-2:30. 6.5 hours.

15.75 more hours since Wednesday's post.

Total hours worked this year: 50.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $891.22 per hour  

Tomorrow I am hosting a work party and because of that definitely won't be AT the school.  I will, however, have some time to sit down and choose some texts to read this year and (I HOPE) get them ordered! :)

Peace!

I'm tired already.

Hello!

Today was a work day with trainings and small group, department stuff. I worked at a school district building/location from 8-4. 8 hours.  Once I'm finished with this short blog post I will read/plan/get inspired by work ideas for 1.25 hours ONLY.  Got to turn the computer off and close the books by 11:00. 

Right now I'm so interested/concerned with ideas/planning because I'm trying to revamp my Advanced class's curriculum.  They need to work with more complex texts from the very beginning, I think, so I want the year to start off with a rough plan of what we will cover.  I am hopeful that I can skip some things entirely and move quickly through others that normally I spend a week or even two on. We shall see...

Hours worked today: 9.25
Total hours worked this year: 34.50
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $1,298.08 per hour  

A week from now...

One week from now I will be trying to sleep. It'll be the night before school starts. Yikes.

The last two days have been busy at school, but because most of the work was with a student group that I get a small additional stipend for, I'm not counting those hours. (I want to point out though that I worked 11 HOURS yesterday on that group. Yeah.)

Outside of that, however, yesterday I read for an hour and a half at the end of the day.  After our training today, I worked at school from 3:45-6:00 and then this evening I've been reading/planning for an hour and fifteen minutes. That's five hours over the last two days.

Today was the first true, required back to work day for teachers and tomorrow marks the beginning of Professional Development and school meetings, etc. The long days have begun.

Hours worked today: 5
Total hours worked this year: 25.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $1,773.62 per hour 

Productive Day.

I was at work finishing up the "stuff on  my walls" from 1:00-6:00.  All that's left to do in terms of the room is to decide how to squeeze all the kiddos into the space so that they aren't close enough to get on each others' nerves. I hate coming up with seating charts. It's quite a workout though. :)

At 9:00 this evening I started to read some of my teacher materials and I will finish (come hell or high water) by 11:00.  I MUST go to bed early tonight since I have to be at school tomorrow at 7:00. 

Hours worked today: 7
Total hours worked this year: 20.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $2,211.55 per hour

A note about tomorrow: I will be training students for a mentor program from 7:00-1:30 tomorrow.  While that time is, obviously, time that I am "working" I receive additional pay for that position. (Currently making an extra $15 per MONTH for it...)  Because of that extra money, I will NOT add the hours worked for that job into this blog.  If I work after that (which I likely will) I will include that time.

I'm a Teacher-Book Reading Fool...

I was in my classroom getting things somewhat organized and up on the walls from 4:00-6:00. The room is starting to come together, but tomorrow, my goal is to have it DONE. Then I can devote my days and hours to the content without feeling distracted.

After going to the gym, eating, and chilling for a bit, I started reading more teacher materials.  Mostly these consist of notes I've taken over past lessons or ideas from teachers/websites/books, but tonight I also reread Carol Jago's books Classics in the Classroom and With Rigor for All.  Got some good ideas, I think, but they will require some cash for books. :) I started reading at 10:00pm and just finished at 1:00am. 

Total hours worked today: 5
Total hours worked this year: 13.25 hours
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $3,379.92

Much less than yesterday. :(  But, still, that's more than Obama, I think. :)

Freedom is slipping away...

Today was the last Friday of the summer.  *Sigh*

I spent some time at school, of course, as I will for the next two days of the weekend and ALL of next week as well.

Today consisted of making lists of the things I needed to buy, reading through materials, getting some technology stuff figured out, planning for a student training early next week, and getting some forms to pay for the food for that student training. I arrived at school at 11:15 and left at 2:15. (Technically, I DID go DO the shopping, but since that was not technically ALL school related, I'm not counting it.) 3 hours.

Additionally, after I blogged last night, I read through and made notes on classroom content ideas from 12:15am until 1:30am--an additional 1.25 hours for today, bringing the total hours for 8/12 to 4.25 hours.

Total hours worked this year: 8.25 hours
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $5,428.36 per hour

Not too shabby. :)

The Beginning...

I've been thinking.

I don't make enough money for the work that I do.  I mean, I make money. Sure. I do.  I have a pretty solid salary and alright benefits.

But still...I feel like I work harder than my pay says.

You see, though, I'm a teacher. I teach 8th Grade Language Arts.  I'm beginning my 5th year (can't believe that!) on August 24th.  Teachers have been getting an awfully bad reputation of late.  They are "lazy", "selfish", and "under-educated" because, after all, "those who CAN, Do. Those who CAN'T, Teach." Hahahaha...ha..ha..h--. Yeah. That's just not nice.

I have dedicated the majority of the last four years of my life to my students.  Staying late. Coming in early. Working Saturdays. All so that my students' test scores will improve and people will stop talking smack on teachers.  I'm not going to give you all the info on me or my kiddos right now.  Some of that will wait.  I just want you to know that I'm curious about whether I'm getting paid what I'm worth.  Hence, this blog.

I am going to post about the hours that I work.  I will then divide those hours into my yearly salary so that by the end of the school year (the end of May), I'll have a count of 1) the number of hours I WORKED this year and 2) my per hour pay for that work.

I have some "rules" worked into this so that I don't over count my work, but I'll share those on a later post. :)  For now, I'll discuss today...

I arrived to school at 12:45pm and stayed there until 4:15.  Today consisted of:
Going through materials.
Unpacking cabinets and stacks of stuff from the previous year
Reading though materials deciding on content for the year

Then, once home, I sat in the chair in my living room from 5:45-6:15:
Reading materials

So, today, I worked for 4 hours.  My salary is: $44,784.

So far this year, I make $11,196 per hour. Woohoo! :)

I am eager to see where this adventure leads. I hope that I end up pleasantly surprised that I am fairly compensated for my work and my passion for my students.

Hope to see you all regularly.

*Note: In my district, teacher do not start UNDER CONTRACT until next week.