Do you actually 'DO' your subject outside of the classroom

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I'm not sure if this thread is aimed at Secondary subject teachers, or more widely.

I recently was chatting to an Creative Arts teacher/colleague who was telling me how much she liked to paint/draw/whatever outside the classroom.

She seemed astonished, almost incredulous, that I might enjoy doing Maths outside the classroom.

I love my subject, I just wondered on other people's thoughts.

MFL - use it very day outside school! On internet forums for teachers in my TL countries, TV, radio. Visit every holiday... it would get rusty in a week otherwise as constantly changingf- new cultural/political references etc.

I teach performing arts and am at our local theatre (and others) a LOT. I don't do am dram but I do sing with a choir there and have been in a few professional productions (as an extra) over the last two years. I see as much as I can and support the kids i teach who are in the youth theatre as much as possible - I have chaperoned a couple of shows and ferry them around to rehearsals and auditions.

I would say I pretty much live and breathe my subject

I'm an EYFS/SEN teacher. I have two kids under 4, one with SEN. So...yes I suppose I do!

The unacknowledged bastard child of citizenship and a politics degree, and a referendum imminent............... what better chance to ask students to think about the world they want to live in?

CoCo
I am a NQT History teacher and due to changes in our dept's SOWs, have been reading around the more unfamiliar areas, some of which I hadn't studied since I was the pupil's ages. I love it. I also really enjoy reading novels or watching films set in the past (especially 1920s/30s).
My birthday present is going to watch Horrible Histories on stage , my idea.
My DH is bemused as I actively loathe "Time Team", which he loves.

History here. I actually do research, as in go to archives..... Have picked this up again after liberating myself from my previous school. I'm glad that proper subject knowledge is being appreciated again. I've had years of being told that my subject knowledge is irrelevant. I was even told I couldn't attend an INSET because I knew too much already.... How the heck are we supposed to inspire children if we don't have the bug (and in my case all the whacky local stories) for our subjects ourselves?

I recently supervised a PGCE student. He was teaching the Black Death, from the text book which was out of date with peer-reviewed published research. He told me he would stick with the textbook as it was in the curriculum and he had resources from TES for it.
Depressing. I am not a history teacher (MFL), but do lots of extra-curricular in history and would hope that aspiring 'real' history teachers would be enthusiastically up to speed with current research.

My own DC are at school where the teachers do independent research and write books about it.

I teach Maths and I do STEP, MAT or Olympiad (national level) a few hours a week. It stops me from getting bored doing the standard GCSE and A Level questions in class. Sometimes, I set pupils work and sit down and do questions. If it is appropriate I then share them with the class. Some kids get a kick from trying and doing questions that I 'struggle' with

(I am the OP, but somehow I seem to have lost the name PartialDerivative.)

I am very fond of spending time watching YouTube threads by the Numberphile team, or Vi Hart, et al.

I teach IB maths, part of the requirements are for students to do a maths exploration on a subject of their choosing. I really enjoy discussing what they are interested in and trying to find the maths in that topic. I think I get a bit carried away at times.

I do have trouble linking maths and music, which is ridiculous as they have many associations, I just have not been able to bring them together in an accessible way for the students.

I am going to go against the tide and say no. I am a science teacher. I love my subject, but I once I have finished teaching, marking, preparing lessons, collecting dd, playing with dd and making and eating dinner. I have a couple of hours to sit in front of the telly and/or computer. Also I spend saturday mornings preparing and want to keep the rest of the weekend to rest, otherwise I suffer from stress-related colds that make me unpopular.

My 'spare' time is spent trying to learn my husband's native language to the degree of fluency needed to teach in it, so that we can move there and I can get a job. Occasionally I pick up a textbook with the aim of branching out into teaching maths or physics A-level, but that lasts about 1 week during the holidays. In fact, at the end of an 11-week term (australia), give me a science book to read for pleasure and it is likely to go out of the window.

Sorry to sound so knackered bitter? hopefully not but I don't even have the energy to think about science outside of school. Please don't get me wrong, I have a lot of passion for my subject, but that is used up during actual teaching. It is surprising how knackering it is to stand up and be an interesting, interested, innovative and enthusiastic teacher for several hours everyday and then prepare another such set of lessons for the next day. At the end of the day, week, term, I am spent.

I'm interested in how you "do" maths :) I love maths but don't really get a chance to "do" it other than occasionally working out some statistics or a logic puzzle or normal budgeting etc, since I left school. Would be fun to find some way to get into it again. I'll have a look at that website.

I teach EFL and I do find that I use it often as I notice similarities with other languages or little inconsistencies and I like working out differences between different English variations like US, Australian, Canadian etc.

SEN specialist here, definitely doy job outside school! 4 quarterly journals to keep up with research, some work with a local primary when I get time, and I enjoy working with my college Psychology dept to do one-off lectures about how I used content in the a-level syllabus every day.

My job is my hobby, and I feel most fortunate :)