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What is an average day like as a middle/high school math teacher?

I know that every day is an adventure for teachers, but what is a general day like? #education

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A common day for a center or secondary school math educator can incorporate anything from showing how to detail logarithmic conditions to test calculation evidence. There are different techniques accessible to show math today, including intuitive learning, reading material, exercise manuals, and gathering works out. By encouraging math at the center and secondary school levels, you'll assist understudies with understanding numerical structures, guess and check arrangements, think speculatively, and grasp circumstances and logical results. By center school, the numerical educational plan shows more polynomial math and calculation, which are critical venturing stones to higher math and rationale contemplates. At the secondary school level, you'll show a more extensive scope of math aptitudes, including progressed variable based math, calculation, measurements, likelihood, geometry, and pre-analytics. Other normal obligations incorporate the accompanying:

Preparing exercise plans, and evaluating schoolwork, tests, and tests
Compiling notes and conveying connecting with, intelligent talks
Accumulating specific materials for outside perusing and schoolwork
Coaching adolescents and youthful adults independently and in gathering settings
Studying and using the most proper learning methodologies
Engaging the class in invigorating conversations
Conducting examination and distributing your discoveries
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Hi Jessica,


Great question! I hope this means you are interested in teaching someday! It is a busy busy busy career, but is extremely rewarding. I was a High School history teacher for several years, but I think there is plenty of overlap with a Math teacher. As a history teacher I taught 10th grade World History and AP World History (They were 2 separate classes with very little over lap)


My school had 7 periods while many other schools only have 6. Here is how my teaching schedule looked:


1st Period (8:15): World History
2nd Period: World History
3rd Period: Personal Prep/Planning period
4th Period: AP World History
Lunch: 12:15-12:45
5th period: World History
6th: AP World History
7th: World History
End of classes: 3:30pm
Meet with students 3:30-4:00
Teacher/Staff/Department meetings (twice a week): 4:00-5:00
Grade, Lesson Plan (on non meeting days): 4:00-5:00


Finally, about 3 nights a week I would spend an extra hour at home working on lesson plans, emails, and grading.


For each class (about 50 minutes), there would be different elements such as:
- Warm up question (5-7 minutes)
- Teacher presentation/lecture (20 minutes)
- group work (15 minutes)
- Group discussion (10 minutes)
- Independent work (10 minutes)
These chunks of time would varied depending on different activities, and some days we wouldn't do independent work, or some days we did not need to break into small groups.


In my experience, Middle school teachers have a slightly shorter day. Again, I was a history teacher but a Math teacher will similarly have to teach at least 2 subjects, and will have to balance grading, lesson planning, and meetings. At the end of the day, teaching can be exhausting! But you will be hard to find a more fulfilling and rewarding career.


Hope this helps, keep up your hard work!


Bryant
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