How much work are you doing during the lockdown

[Letmegetthisrightasawoman]

I work 0.6 FTE, teaching KS3 and KS5. At my school, subject leaders are setting work for KS3 and KS4. I haven't been on the rota for last week or this week (I have volunteered to come in over Easter and have emphasised that I can come in on my non-working days too, but there just isn't a lot of demand). Essentially, all I'm doing is setting and marking work for my handful of year 12 pupils. I do have two sets of year 7 assessments to mark, but there isn't exactly a rush to get those done. I need to plan some work for our incoming sixth formers, but I can't do any planning for next year, as I have no idea what year groups, topics or even subjects I will be teaching. I am keeping a close eye on my emails, and so far I have had a grand total of three emails from students.

It just doesn't feel quite right to be considered a keyworker when, for all intents and purposes, I am having an extended holiday... How are other schools doing things? Am I the only feeling like this? I don't want to sound smug or rub it in, this seemed a safe place to ask. Sorry if I have annoyed anyone...

Being in Australia, online teaching only started for me today and naturally coincided with a colossal mark load piling in (senior English) which takes longer to do online than by hand. Naturally I haven't got the rhythm of it yet and my neck's killing me. It's all learning, viz. the 4-frame narrated PowerPoint that took me 90 minutes to make, but hey, I didn't know you could narrate a PowerPoint until two days ago, as the latter is not part of my daily teaching mode.:o

I live on my own so don't have the additional cares of others.

I'm commissioning a T-shirt that says:

Read the email.
Read the lesson plan.

I'm not a Teacher, I'm a DSL and line manage the pastoral team. I'm working my contracted hours and more besides. Working through the Easter 'break' whilst trying (and failing) to entertain two small children. I'm more stressed right now than I've ever been in normal term time.

I gave feedback on 112 pieces of work from my class of 28 today. All planning done and sorting 1:1 video chats between 8-4. I’m shattered.

Out if interest perky, is it not your Easter holiday?

Im hardly getting anything done. Ive marked two sets of mock exams but ive got a unit of work to plan and ive managed 2 lessons so far.
Im setting work for my classes and responding to their emails without too much bother but Ive got a 3 and 5yr old so trying to do bits round them as well as home school them (when its not the holidays!)
Nightmare!

We are very lucky in that our school has paid into lots of subscriptions which marks any work you set (all linked to our text books) and then just emails me the scores each week. So basically at the end of each week, I set work on those programmes for the next week. I then explain the tasks on the VLE. Pastoral wise, I call home once per week each student in my form and then chase anything up. I spend several hours a day logged on to the VLE answering student questions and chasing up log in details that should be written in their planner. Every member of the department has also been given a year group and we are to write the SoW for next year, creating the assessments and planning all lessons.

I personally think anything SoW or planning related is a complete waste of time at this stage because we have no idea how long we will be off, how much students have retained after potentially 5 months off, how much work they have done whilst they have been off etc. It makes no sense to move on to the harder stuff like we ordinarily would, when the foundation blocks are only half there. And in all liklihood, we will be in lockdown again sometime in the autumn term when the second wave hits. I honestly would have prefered to have been furloughed, it seems we are kept on for 3 hours per week of real work.

I'm doing a couple of hours a day at the moment because it's the holidays. I'm liking a bit of time doing something that occupies my mind. I'm planning for term 6.

Before the holidays I was doing between 4 and 6 hours a day around my partner working from home, and looking after/home schooling our child. I'm definitely not twiddling my thumbs.

As with Cheesecakeaddict, I would prefer to have been furloughed, or put down to 50% salary or something. Just to shut up the whingers really.

No, we have just started the new term.