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Post by freecharlie on Jul 17, 2016 17:02:22 GMT
Planning was brought up in another post and got me wondering.
What grade level and how much plan time do you get?
I teach high school and feel fortunate to get 86 min plan time each day. We do stay 30 min past contract one day a week to help struggling students, but that was something we agreed would help out students.
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Post by smannes on Jul 17, 2016 17:18:09 GMT
I teach 3rd and I only get planning time if all of our specialists and assistants are at school because if they're not there specials are canceled or I have to do recess. So, assuming everyone is in attendance MWF I have 2 hrs 20 min.(broken up into 2 40 min chunks and 2 30 min chunks) , TTH I have 1 hour 40 min. (Broken up into 1 40 min period and 2 30 min periods). There have been days when I've had zero planning time because of people that were absent. Those days are hell.
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Post by Merge on Jul 17, 2016 17:19:01 GMT
Wow! At the elementary level I get 45 minutes a day, plus an extra 15 at the end of the day between my last class and dismissal. At the middle school level I got 70 minutes a day.
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Post by shamrockpea on Jul 17, 2016 17:19:50 GMT
high school math. teach five periods, plan one period. they are all 55 minutes.
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Post by Merge on Jul 17, 2016 17:20:13 GMT
I teach 3rd and I only get planning time if all of our specialists and assistants are at school because if they're not there specials are canceled or I have to do recess. So, assuming everyone is in attendance MWF I have 2 hrs 20 min.(broken up into 2 40 min chunks and 2 30 min chunks) , TTH I have 1 hour 40 min. (Broken up into 1 40 min period and 2 30 min periods). There have been days when I've had zero planning time because of people that were absent. Those days are hell. I'm sorry; that sucks. Planning time is state-mandated here, so if a specialist is absent and doesn't have a sub, the rest of us specialists have to split that class between us so the teacher gets her planning time (which also sucks).
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Post by TankTop on Jul 17, 2016 17:21:10 GMT
4th grade 25 minutes per day.
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 17, 2016 17:22:01 GMT
4th grade 25 minutes per day. wow, that is enough time to pee and make one run at the copier
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Post by AnotherPea on Jul 17, 2016 17:29:53 GMT
85 per day, but it isn't protected so I don't get it every day because I'm pulled for other things.
When I worked at the elementary level, they got a lot more time, but it was often broken up instead of one long block. Some teachers only got 35 minutes during the school day, but their school day is an hour shorter than middle and high school. So they got the same time as I did, plus a duty free lunch.
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Post by SabrinaP on Jul 17, 2016 17:34:50 GMT
Texas mandates 450 minutes per 10 days. We get exactly 45 minutes per day. My DH teaches high school English in my district and gets about 80 minutes per day. One of their planning times is a team planning time. They meet as a team or have meetings with admin 3-4 days per week.
We are contracted 10 minutes before the start of school and 20 minutes after. Most of that time is for duty though.
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Post by theboydbunch on Jul 17, 2016 17:44:44 GMT
Elementary Level Public School
30 minute duty free lunch 50 minute planning period per day All contracted by union; non-negotiable
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Post by paigepea on Jul 17, 2016 17:48:04 GMT
Planning was brought up in another post and got me wondering. What grade level and how much plan time do you get? I teach high school and feel fortunate to get 86 min plan time each day. We do stay 30 min past contract one day a week to help struggling students, but that was something we agreed would help out students. Wow! Is that full time? All year / each term?
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Post by SockMonkey on Jul 17, 2016 18:00:12 GMT
We get 48 min Tuesday - Friday and 42 minutes on Monday, when we have a PLC day.
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Post by meridon on Jul 17, 2016 18:05:53 GMT
I teach high school social studies. We teach 6 periods a day and have one planning period and they are all 47 minutes long. We also have one day a month where students come in an hour late and we use that for department meetings/PLC meetings. I also have a duty free lunch of 30 minutes and we are on contract 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after school. Our duty rotation is one week per month. I typically have bus duty, so once the buses leave, I'm done and it's rarely the full 30 minutes unless a bus is running late. (shhh, don't tell! It's much better than car rider duty or parking lot duty! or the dreaded cafeteria duty)
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Post by christine58 on Jul 17, 2016 18:06:01 GMT
Contractually we have 225 mins per week.
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Post by gsquaredmom on Jul 17, 2016 18:16:26 GMT
250 mpw with 100 of those in collaboration time which may it may not have anything to do with what you actually teach.
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 17, 2016 18:19:02 GMT
Planning was brought up in another post and got me wondering. What grade level and how much plan time do you get? I teach high school and feel fortunate to get 86 min plan time each day. We do stay 30 min past contract one day a week to help struggling students, but that was something we agreed would help out students. Wow! Is that full time? All year / each term? full time during the school year. We really on a block so 86 min is one plan period. Plus 30 min lunch. We are contracted 20 min before, 25 after school that is not thought of as plan time. One day a week is set for a core class (Monday is science) all science teachers stay 30 more minutes on Mondays to help students, be available for questions.
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Post by seaexplore on Jul 17, 2016 18:22:46 GMT
I am at a K-8 school. Teachers who are "departmentalized" (teach different students throughout the day) in grades 6-8 get 50 minutes daily prep and teach 5 periods. If you are K-5 or not departmentalized, you get 2 45 minute preps a week. If your prep is taken because someone is absent or you sub, you are paid $35 for a missed prep.
The sad thing is that this coming year it looks like I will be the only one getting daily prep since I will be taking other teachers kids to teach them math. I will teach math for 4 of my 5 periods and my 5th period will be a math enrichment class of 20-25 kids from 4 different classes who need extra help. I split them up into small groups based on teacher/grade level and work with 1-2 groups each day and the others are on the chrome books doing khan academy or our publisher website activities.
Our preps are contractual and negotiated.
IMO ALL teachers, regardless of what grade/subject/number of kids should have a minimum 45 minute prep period daily. It's not like departmentalized teachers have more prepping to do than someone who teaches multiple subjects to the same group of kids daily.
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Post by moodyblue on Jul 17, 2016 18:26:48 GMT
Long ago we used to have that in our contract, but that provision got dropped somewhere along the way.
Two buildings in my district, one elementary and one junior high, with different starting and dismissal times because of bussing schedules. In both buildings teachers are required by contract to be there 20 minutes before the start of the school day and to stay twenty minutes after. Thirty minutes for a duty-free lunch (although that doesn't always happen, as we all know). I believe the district now considers the before and after school time as prep time, but it's often taken up by assigned duties or just making sure all students are picked up/on the bus.
At the junior high all teachers get one period per day as a prep time. Periods are generally 44 minutes long, but only 38 minutes on Wednesday when school gets out 45 minutes earlier than the other days, to allow for meetings and professional development. We also have the issue of sub shortages, so if they can't get a sub for a teacher at the junior high, teachers usually give up their prep period to cover the class without a sub. They get paid for those, and we just negotiated a little improvement in that pay, but it still sucks to go without your prep period - and it happens way more often than I would have thought.
At the elementary, prep times vary day-to-day, depending on your schedule of "specials" and it could be anywhere from one 25-minute or 30-minute slot to a 45-minute one or a combo of those (our specials have different time allotments depending on what they are and how often; art and library and computers are once a week but music and PE meet more times). A classroom teacher could have one special on some days and as many as three on others. The principal expects each grade level to use a "common planning time" (when all classes at a grade level are at one special or another) to have grade level meetings - but that rarely actually happens.
On Wednesdays, students leave 45-minutes early and teachers stay until regular contract time is up, for meetings, professional development, etc. Our contract also allows the district to require us to put in up to 4 extra hours per month at meetings the administration sets. That doesn't always happen.
Last year was the first year for me to split my time between both buildings. The JH starts 30 minutes earlier than the elementary, but I stay on the same schedule for arriving at work no matter which building I'm in; it's just easier for me, not being a morning person, to have one wake up time and one time for getting to work. I was always there early anyway, although not terribly so. Now I'm usually at the elementary about 40 minutes before required.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2016 18:34:13 GMT
Like the other Texas teachers said, 45 minutes per day. We are scheduled 7:45-3:45 and the student day is 7:55-3:25. We don't have bus or lunch duty.
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Post by mom2rjcr on Jul 17, 2016 18:50:07 GMT
I teach elementary special education in Texas. I get 60 minutes of planning every day, but if I need more time I can take it, especially if I am working on ARD meetings or need to prepare other paperwork, but I don't do that very often. I have 2 grade levels and 3 classes for each that I need to prep for in addition to IEP paperwork. I teach 3rd and 4th grade resource math, reading and language arts, and do inclusion when I am not teaching. Sometimes I am not needed in a classroom due to a special event or they have library etc. so I can grab a few minutes there.
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Post by Blind Squirrel on Jul 17, 2016 18:53:32 GMT
Elementary level: 45 minutes, if all goes according to plan.  We are not guaranteed a duty-free lunch. First two weeks of school, we have to eat with our students. After that, it's on an as-needed basis.
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Post by missfrenchjessica on Jul 17, 2016 19:10:59 GMT
I usually get one 47 minute period/day. I have two "off" periods. One is for planning (if I don't get volun-told to cover another class), and the other is for team/department meetings.
This coming year, they're moving department meetings to after school. Not sure of the day they'll choose, but it's going to be a nightmare getting anything done in that time period. Our departments will NOT necessarily have common off times in an attempt to open up the class schedule. I'm not looking forward to it.
47 minutes is just seriously not enough time to do anything. It feels like once I feel like I get going and getting something done, poof! Time's up and my classes are back.
ETA: I teach HS level World Language at a middle school.
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Post by dualmaestra on Jul 17, 2016 20:04:55 GMT
Our contract is for 8 hours a day (we did get a little raise for going from 7.5 to 8 hours). We get 30 minutes before school and 65 minutes after school to plan and get ready. During the school day, students are dismissed 75 minutes early once a week so we can collaborate with our team (those minutes were added to the school day on the other 4 days).
Of course that is never enough time. I teach first grade and have a lot of prep to do for my lessons. Also, we wait with our students until they are all picked up, that takes away at least 15 minutes every day from our/my planning time.
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Post by happyOCgirl on Jul 17, 2016 20:16:49 GMT
Hahahaha - we dream of planning periods here! I'm in first with 32+ students. Gen Ed with 2 - 5 special ed students who may or may not have support (they are supposed to, but it's iffy if we get what we're supposed to as far as support).
No planning periods!!! Duty free lunch Two 15 minute recesses (we rotate supervising these, so it's enough time for a 5-7 minute break). I always end up having a mini conferences with the special ed specialists for my students. Each one of my special ed students has 3 - 7 specialists that see them every week. Since we have no other time to meet, it's during our recess. Our middle and high school have planning periods every day. We're told our recesses are our planning periods - there's no way that ever happens!
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Post by katybee on Jul 17, 2016 20:43:04 GMT
50 minutes-- guaranteed by state every day--BUT-- admin always takes it away! Required team meetings, required SST meetings, required PLC's. Technically, we could refuse to do these meetings during our planning, but then we'd have to do them after school. Sometimes, I want to protest just for spite...because I know our admin doesn't want to stay after school and I'm here to 6 almost every night anyway. Maybe we wouldn't have so many required meetings if admin had to stay after school... 
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Post by fwscrapper on Jul 17, 2016 20:43:26 GMT
Elementary: 50 minutes a day...2/3 of those planning periods are usually taken up by team meetings.
We are contracted 30 min before and 20 min after.
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Post by mom2emilytaryn on Jul 17, 2016 20:53:31 GMT
50 minutes a day while my class is at specials, and a 30-minute duty-free lunch each day. Usually twice a week, we meest as a grade level team during our planning time.
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Post by bobomommy on Jul 17, 2016 20:58:33 GMT
I just left a private school where we got 45 minutes per day. However, after walking the students there and going back to get them you really only had 30 minutes of work time left. We did not have duty free lunch, either. When we had recess, the teacher stayed with their class.
I'll be in a public school this year and will have 40 minutes per day while they are in a special, 30 minutes of duty free lunch, and 20 minutes of recess. I don't know yet how often I will have playground duty.
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Post by gorgeouskid on Jul 17, 2016 23:31:16 GMT
When I was elem, I had no planning time. Contract hours are 30 minutes before the bell to 6 minutes after dismissal, but I never counted that as planning. Same with recess- no recess duty, but that's time to pee.
Because our librarian and play leaders (PE) don't have credentials, we have to stay with them.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Jul 18, 2016 4:47:57 GMT
3rd We have 40 minutes each day during the students' day. We arrive 30 minutes before them and stay 30 minutes after them. That's considered planning time also, but sometimes there may be meetings.
We get period pay if a specialist is out and we don't get our planning period. Last year it happened more often than usual.
ETA: They have to compensate us if they call us in for a meeting during our planning time. Administration is not supposed to use our 40 minutes.
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