{"id":57,"date":"2017-09-10T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/the-good-and-the-bad-of-teaching-online\/"},"modified":"2017-09-10T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T14:00:17","slug":"the-good-and-the-bad-of-teaching-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/the-good-and-the-bad-of-teaching-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The good and the bad of teaching online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love my job. &#0160;This is my third year anniversary of teaching online. In theory we can have school based students but that has not happened yet. Well, once, but the student didn&#39;t finish the class.<\/p>\n<p>I teach students from third grade to senior in high school. &#0160;Since most take the classes as enrichment I have the opposite schedule from most teachers. &#0160;I am busiest in the summers, weekends and evenings.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest benefit is the biggest drawback. I can teach anywhere, anytime. At the same time, I don&#39;t know when I am going to be busy. Today is a good example. I woke up with 9 hours on my time sheet &#8211; our week for pay purposes starts on Monday. One day had 0.75 hours.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Today, I woke up with an hours work and by the time I finished, it was 1 and half. It&#39;s almost 2:00 and I have put in another 0.75 hours and I have at least an hour waiting on me. I left the house afraid I wouldn&#39;t get to the gym and have gotten two emails while typing this.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Not complaining but the day is getting full. I have had at least 3 days I got seriously concerned that I wouldn&#39;t get to everything and this one is starting to feel like it.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>My priority order is answer student questions, then parent questions. &#0160;Handle anything that is time sensitive like needing final project passwords . &#0160;Grading mid course assignments come last. &#0160;First assignments and assignments that students are having trouble with are higher priority.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#39;t pay as well as a full time job, but it doesn&#39;t have the headaches. I have two out of town dog shows coming up. Haven&#39;t done that with this size student load. &#0160;It will be interesting.&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my job. &#0160;This is my third year anniversary of teaching online. In theory we can have school based students but that has not happened yet. Well, once, but the student didn&#39;t finish the class. I teach students from third grade to senior in high school. &#0160;Since most take the classes as enrichment I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}