How to divide time between teaching and being wife?

Question

don't know how to divide my time....

Answer 1

I agree with djgardne.  Also learn to teach using teacher's guides.  Somewhere in the development of classrooms we have stepped away from these guides and feel that we need to come up with unique lessons on our own.

Answer 2

see the god has given more tolerance and energy than man only for this.U will have to chalk out ur timings for the family and ur proffession.U can ask ur hubby also and take his suggestions too.Some times we get the good suggestions from the person whom we think good for nothing like.so talk to ur husband as he too is involved in the happy family

Answer 3

I remind myself over and over that me just being there as a caring role model is enough as it is.  I have been in your shoes and still hit times when my wife is not too happy with me.  In fact, my colleague and I talk all the time about how mad our spouses get.  They have jobs they can turn off.  If they are sick - they miss a meeting - whereas we go in for 2 hours to write sub plans.

You do have to find that balance.  You have to set your priorities.  The three things that finally broke me of overwhelming dedication to my 2nd grade class room (and I am in my 3rd year of teaching) were:

1. Having a son (18 months old now)

2. Having to write sub plans several times due to trips or my son being sick.

3. I let go of my frustration with veteran teachers that leave at 2:45pm.

I found that the kids do just fine without me - and the sub plans don't have to be perfect.  I learned that you can succeed in teaching the material in efficient ways.  I also knew that my son (and wife) are the most important things in my life.

You have got to find a way to assess smarter.  You have got to find a way to change routines that are time consuming.  Can you attain close to the same goal by doing something that takes far less time.  Think about all the awesome cool things that you did this year.  In the end, could the kids have learned it the same even if you didn't invest all that personal time.  Yes - parents may praise you and the kids may say you are the best.  But give those kids 5 extra minutes of recess and they will say the same thing.

Next year I am going to try a new form of assessment.  Paper and pencil will still exist so that they are ready for the year end assessments.  But in rotations during the day I am going to set a schedule where I meet with individuals once or twice for 10 minutes.  In that meeting I will assess if I can check certain things off on the report card.  I can give them immediate feedback and immediate remediation - all without creating yet another piece of paper to grade.

Not sure which grade you teach, but there has to be away to do things more efficiently.

Talk to your veteran teachers.  Talk to your resource teacher.  Contact similar grade level teachers at other schools.  Someone will want to help.  Like me - they are feeling or have felt your pain.

Commit to wanting to give more time to your husband.  Make it happen.

Answer 4

as much as possible, do not make your home an extension of your classroom, so when you leave the school, leave schoolwork there.  Of course there are times when you could not help but bring schoolwork home, but please do not do that too often.  Your children and your spouse deserve your quality time.  If you look closely, this is not a problem.  You just have to make a decision to spend quality time with your family and not bring home your schoolwork.  good luck....

Answer 5

Limit the amount of work that you take home, or set a timer for so long and get done what you can.

Answer 6

make a time table related to your school timeings and go through. dont worry about it 45% Teacher ***  wifes have same problem. if u want to get something you must have loose some thing this is the fundamental of life