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What is the maximum prep for a secondary English teacher? Can you be assigned 5 different classes/subjects in a 7 period day? Where can I find policy on this? With all these: Eng 1 and 2, Reading, Academic Lit, and Writing courses, are you aloud 2 planning periods per day?
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That's an outrageous number of English preps I'd have to find another job. That schedule would kill me.

Your administrators are taking abusive advantage of you.

On 3/07/14, Erin wrote: > I am in a small, rural middle/high school (6-12). Two ELA teachers > are primarily high school, but also have 1-2 sections of middle > school, and there is one middle school (7-8) E...See More
Mar 7, 2014
We max out at two preps, per our union contract Occasionally, in an emergency, someone will take three; then the district has to pay them extra money.

The charter school teachers here have a much rougher deal, because they're not allowed to join the union. Those schools tend to be much smaller, and they con people into teaching crazy different preps all day. But a lot of those teachers ...See More
Mar 7, 2014
Erin We're in a really small school (140 in high school; about 225 in 7-12)...it's not necessarily taking advantage, just necessity. However, five is killing me. Four, I can handle better. Next year, I may have only three--just high school (freshmen and juniors are larger groups than sophomores and seniors). I like my middle school section, but I'm not ...See More
Mar 19, 2014
Me This is 7th grade, one hour periods except Per.7, which is 40 minutes. Period 1: Advanced Math Period 2: Social Studies Period 3,4,5: Language Arts Period 6: Lunch Period 7: Remedial Math (not certified in math) I miss the days where I only taught Language Arts oriented classes.
Mar 22, 2014
pixie, shouldn't it depend on... In an ideal world (with ideal principals) the number of preps each teacher is assigned would take into account the experience of the teacher. If you have taught particular courses before you are more likely to have some lesson plans and materials already done that you can build on. If you were a rookie teacher just hired in mid-August, it would sta...See More
Apr 3, 2014


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