Sunday, October 30, 2011

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. :)

Monday, October 24, 2011

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. :)

Thursday, October 20, 2011

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

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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. :)

Monday, October 17, 2011

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. :)

Sunday, October 16, 2011

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.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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, October 11, 2011

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

Monday, October 10, 2011

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

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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

Monday, October 3, 2011

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, October 2, 2011

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