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Exams, invigilation and marking.

When you look at planning for your teaching,  putting the teaching plan into practice, assessing knowledge gained and marking assessments; marking takes the hat for some, the pre-planning does it for others while the process in between planning and assessing does it for others; it exposes one to a variety of learning  and teaching styles and calls for flexibility which is a concept many are yet to grasp...

The most tedious of all jobs. One job that would make a teacher quit until its over and come back to share knowledge again. A lot question the professions to be soothed back to it by the long holiday break, fully paid that goes with it.

We asked a few teachers how they felt about the exam session.
Teacher 1: it is part of the package. Stressful and straining, time consuming yes, but who is going to if not the person who sets?


Teacher 2: I love teaching, ask me to do anything but mark. It is strenuous, physically and emotionally. Imagine teaching so much and reflecting and revising only to get answers that reflect lack of learning! 

Teacher 3: there are so many aspects to this. I often find myself questioning the idea of overtime in the education sector. Education normalises overtime and makes it part of the package. 7-9 hours in school premises in contact with students, maybe 2 or 3 'free' periods for planning and some marking, that gives us 5-7 hours...Not enough for tasks in education, we therefore take work home, find time during weekends... taxing part about the job...

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