TriedandTested said What course are you on? What qualification are you going for?
2 year Foundation Degree in Learning and Teaching which is nice as counts the hours I do in school. It's too late for me to remember the details, I can get them tomorrow. Though its only the start of a long path to becoming a fully qualified teacher. I need to do at least 1 more year after that or was it 3, not been thinking about it over the holiday. If anything is going let me down its going be my English skills.
jojothemonkey69 said " What is the point your trying to say btw."
I personally believe teachers have it relatively easy compared to none education jobs and many teachers make their job sound much worse then it is.
My point is that most teachers and to an extent TA's full into 1 of two groups in my opinion. Group 1 have worked outside education in so called real jobs, these teachers for the most part seem to realise how good they have it. (not easy, but good)
Group 2 have never worked outside education and are always complaining about little things, thinking they have it super hard and don't realise how good they have it. More often then not the teachers with attitude problems fall into group 2. The ones who see them self as better than everyone else, who speak to other adults as though they are children and who don't value or worse think support Staff are slaves. Often this group think they are highly qualified and no one else is who isn't a teacher.
That is just my opinion on what I have seen. It's not fact, just based on seeing both jobs and other schools. Clearly some people don't fall into one of the 2 groups. I also think some support staff have it harder than some teachers and the support staff are underpaid and sometimes unvalued depending on the school. I am lucky as the teachers I work with treat support staff with respect and as equals but many schools have a Us and them attitude (teaching staff and none teaching staff). It's far too common for teachers to act like they are better then everyone else. Just look at the TES Forums.
AcidHell2 said "so 3 x45min-1hour slots is enough, to do all lesson plans, planning, research, marking, school reports and everything else please."
If it's not, speak to your head and arrange more free time as your overworked, or training on better ways to handle the work load, doesnt you school have a staff training budget? A teaching should not have to regularly (daily) take work home and work all night.
All I can say is the teachers I work with are mostly ok. I know some worked for a bit before the holiday then had nothing to take home for the holiday. Lesson plans, planning is fast and easy with the right computer programs depending on your group. Marking now that does take time but I never had problem fitting it in the slots I had.
Burnsy2023 said "endless marking, reports, moderation, training, government initiative, meetings, planning and everything else."
Which is not that different from many other jobs. You could argue someone in IT support has way more paperwork then a teacher and needs to do far more training and keep up with new qualifications. The support staff don't get giving 3 x45min-1hour slots to do it all and they get paied far less. Some support staff have just as high sometimes higher qualifications then teachers, have the same or more workload but get paied half as much or less.
