Re:North Carolina teacher's resignation letter
by yummyfajitas on Monday October 29, 2012 @05:08PM
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The numbers I cited are actual hours worked "last week" according to the BLS's American Time User Survey. It includes work performed "at a work location", "at home" and "at another location" (I assume this last one means starbucks).
You'd have known all this if you bothered to read even the introduction.
Re:North Carolina teacher's resignation letter
by wpietri on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @12:52PM
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Did read it. I didn't see them resolve the scheduled hours versus hours worked question.
And since the Gates Foundation numbers better match what every teacher I've ever talked to says, I'm going to run with them.
Re:North Carolina teacher's resignation letter
by yummyfajitas on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @01:49PM
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Paragraph 2 explains that it tracks "activities that they engaged in".
http://www.nea.org/home/12661.htm
That certainly matches the teachers I've known; they put in a ton of non-classroom hours, and often put in a fair bit of their own money.
A Gates Foundation survey puts it at 53 hours per week:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/survey...
And for teachers involved in extracurricular activities, the average is over 11 hours a day.