My working hours have been so much better teaching online from home.
Along the lines of 50 hours a week rather than 80. And that is before the commute is taken in to consideration.
I dont want to go back to 80
I’ve got used to this better work life balance now.
So I’m going down to a 50% timetable.
Are there any other teachers doing the same? Found how nice life is with fewer hours? Of course I’ll still be spending half my time on non teaching tasks.
I was intending to retire a year ago, but have stayed on to help see the kids through the pandemic. Which I am still doing, but will only by working 2.5 days a week next year
Things I do not do in lockdown or during remote learning
Break duty
Lunch duty
Setting up classroom
Tidying away classroom
Requisitions
Practice practicals
Set detentions
Run detentions
Change displays
Investigate bullying incidents
Lock up at night
Open up in the morning
Litter picking, or supervising litter picking
First aid
Looking for lost property
Tracing owners of found property
Refereeing sports
Issuing text books
Chasing library books
Assemblies
Checking cctv
Sharpening pencils
Counting equipment in and out
Disinfecting teachers desk
Logging out in one room and logging back in in another
Inspecting uniform and planners
Fielding parental phone calls
Supervising medication
Bodging together the blinds in my room
Rationing exercise books
Confiscating phones, and looking after confiscated phones and other valuables
Issuing merit and demerit points
Taking registers and chasing absences
General admin etc
Actually there is a lot more but I think you get the idea