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Where Your Time Actually Goes
Here's the math: 150 students × 5 minutes per assignment = 12.5 hours of grading. For one assignment. That's where your weekends go.
A typical week breakdown
- Creating assessments3-5 hours
- Grading6-10 hours
- Entering grades2-3 hours
- Lesson planning3-5 hours
- Parent communication2-3 hours
- Total (outside classroom)16-26 hours
Add 30-35 hours in front of students, and you're at 50-60 hours per week. Every week.
The grading problem
Grading is the biggest controllable time sink. You can't skip it, but you can change how it's done.
What if instead of 10 hours grading papers, it took 30 minutes? That's not hypothetical—that's what happens when you photograph papers instead of reading each one manually.