teachers..questions for you from someone considering teaching as a career

[Sandi102]

hi. I'm currently on maternity leave (ds2 is 5 months and ds1 is 5yrs). I work as a librarian in local governent, have done for the last 4 years. I'm in the final year of my degree (information Studies) and I'm considering teaching as a career. I'm particularly interested in sedondary ICT. I've read from other threads that teaching isn't family friendly and there was me about to embark on doing a flexible PGCE in secondary ICT. I've just applied for the student associates scheme, where i can go to a school and observe teaching, planning and assessment.

In reality is it really hard to juggle teaching with family life too?

can someone give me a breakdown of what percentage of time is spent teaching, planning and assessing?

does working full time mean an 8.30am until 3.30pm day?

No - go and speak to someone. Yhey are qualified and no doubt would be more than happy to help you out.

BTW, on the whole I do enjoy my job.

OH, and the time thing - I currently have a student on MSN!!! She must have read my MSN name on the whiteboard earlier - sneaky thing. Shewants coursework advice. It's gone 9pm and I still havbe to teach - eh???

Your hours sound great Sandi - especially with a child at school. But I guess not so good in the holidays, right.

I'm a part time primary teacher. I'm not a class teacher, i support years 5 and 6. I work from 845 to 1230, dream hours really!! .
i manage to take ds1 and ds2 to nursery and school and collect them too. I probably do 1-2 hours in the evening after they've gone to bed. I may go back full time next year when ds2 starts school.

I couldn't face full time when they were very little and only did 1 1/2 days a week.

As hercules said, when i was full-time this meant 0730 - 1800, plus a couple of hours at home and half a day at the weekend. This was before children though!!