Percentage of time spent actually working.

[Hollywade]

Good topic. I would estimate mine at 35%. I've been working for four weeks in the sports department at a newspaper. Thank God for the internet, or I'd be bored as hell most of the time.

[Sooga]

Well I'm a high school teacher, and my official workday is from 7.55 - 2.55:

7.55 - 8.55 period 1
9.00 - 10.00 period 2
10.00 - 11.25 break
11.25 - 12.25 period 4
12.25 - 12.55 lunch
1.00 - 1.55 period 5
2.00 - 2.55 period 6

And I'm done for the day. Obviously on days grades are due or if I give a test, I spend a few minutes after school grading, but that usually amounts to about an hour or so per week.

No teacher in their right mind would be up teaching for all 55 minutes (I typically teach 25-35 minutes, depending on the material). The rest of the time is spent with either classwork or quiz or whatever. But then again, it's not like I can just disappear and surf the web the rest of the time. I still have to make sure the kids aren't getting out of hand or anything. So I dunno, I guess I'll just say I work about 50% of the time.

[RR]

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No teacher in their right mind would be up teaching for all 55 minutes

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Say what??? Why wouldn't the teacher teach most of the time and then assign homework.

[Sooga]

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Say what??? Why wouldn't the teacher teach most of the time and then assign homework.

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Maybe in an AP course, but for a regular class that would never work. In credentialing courses, you're typically taught to not do the same thing for more than 15-20 minutes or so, otherwise the kids will start to get squirrelly. In fact, during a class session one time when a principal was in observing, after the class got out we talked a bit and his only real complaint was: 'you were up there teaching for about 30 minutes. Is it possible to split that up into 15 minute chunks and have something else to do in between?'

Sigh, kids these days.

[OnlinePokerCoach]

I am an in-house lawyer and I would say 90 to 100%, or even 110% if you count that my average day includes "unpaid" overtime.

[RR]

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No teacher in their right mind would be up teaching for all 55 minutes

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Say what??? Why wouldn't the teacher teach most of the time and then assign homework.

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Maybe in an AP course, but for a regular class that would never work. In credentialing courses, you're typically taught to not do the same thing for more than 15-20 minutes or so, otherwise the kids will start to get squirrelly. In fact, during a class session one time when a principal was in observing, after the class got out we talked a bit and his only real complaint was: 'you were up there teaching for about 30 minutes. Is it possible to split that up into 15 minute chunks and have something else to do in between?'

Sigh, kids these days.

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Wow. I went to a private school. Maybe that is why people were so clueless in college (and I graduated HS in 1988).

[Jim14Qc]

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No teacher in their right mind would be up teaching for all 55 minutes

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Say what??? Why wouldn't the teacher teach most of the time and then assign homework.

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Maybe in an AP course, but for a regular class that would never work. In credentialing courses, you're typically taught to not do the same thing for more than 15-20 minutes or so, otherwise the kids will start to get squirrelly. In fact, during a class session one time when a principal was in observing, after the class got out we talked a bit and his only real complaint was: 'you were up there teaching for about 30 minutes. Is it possible to split that up into 15 minute chunks and have something else to do in between?'

Sigh, kids these days.

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Seriously, WTF? I just graduated HS in QC (Canada) and 90% of my classes were constant teaching for 60 minutes, lecture-like for science-related classes and more discussion-like for other subjects. I understand why people get A+ averages in US HS now, can't cover much in that time...