<p>My mother and I were arguing over whether teachers get Winter Break off the same and full days as students do. I thought that teachers get the full two weeks off; my mother says that they come back early or leave later. Wouldn’t it be mean to make teachers work during Winter Break? Do you guys know if teachers have less holidays than students during Winter Break? I’m hoping any parents would know!</p>
<p>Where I live, they have a two-day shorter vacation than students do. I imagine that’s similar to what occurs in other parts of the country.</p>
<p>where I live the teachers come in a few days early at the beginning of the school year and GCs stay a day after school ends. Otherwise, teachers and student all have the same days off, whether it is christmas vacation, winter break,spring break, etc.</p>
<p>Many teachers I know are working during winter break, even though their school is shut down (in order to save energy.)</p>
<p>They are catching up on grading, writing letters of recommendation for students who requested them at the last minute before vacation, and preparing for their January classes.</p>
<p>Many teachers I know are passionate about their work, and they don’t stop working because the building are closed and the students are not there.</p>
<p>In both school districts where I sub regularly, teachers work ten more days each year than students do. These days are used for meetings, prep work, planning, and such things as writing recommendations. About half of the extra days are scheduled in the week before school starts, the rest are scattered throughout the year, usually at the end of quarters (to allow time for preparing grades).</p>
<p>A teacher’s work in the classroom with students present represents about one-half to three-quarters of the actual work load. The rest is curriculum planning, daily planning, student evaluation (grading is only part of evaluation), meeting with parents, and other teacher tasks, like writing recommendations and setting up labs.</p>
<p>i go to private school…my teachers have the same amount of days we do they spent time in the summer 2 but not a lot even but on vacations they have the same amount of days…</p>
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<p>In most public schools, teachers are paid for a certain number of contractual days per year. Where I am this includes 183 student days and 3 inservice days. Our GC’s and high school department chairpeople are paid for about 5 additional days per year (prior to or after the end of school in the summer). No one at our school (except the custodians) will be working this week. Teachers are not paid for any of their “vacations”…they are only paid for the time that they are contracted to work. As a teacher, I certainly would not mind getting paid for some days when students are NOT there…but that is not something that most public schools do. Any work done during school vacations by teachers is done because they want or need to get it done. Please, can we not turn this thread into a “discussion” of how much teachers get paid, and how they get paid? There are already many threads elsewhere online for this.</p>
<p>In our public school district, we work one day after students leave for winter holiday and one day before they return from winter holiday.</p>
<p>My teacher mom gets the same winter break as her students – and I’m sure she’s loving break just as much as her students are right now! :D</p>
<p>we are vacationing right now with several teachers they have roughly the same amount of break, although not if you count that they are giving ski lessons during their break ;)</p>
<p>Although it should be noted that a lot of staff – such as office or development – do work for most of the breaks.</p>