Teachers' workload

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 86979

Booby J wrote:
> > The Hogwarts teachers are overworked!  Think of McGonagall.
<snip> 
> And if each class is one hour long 
> > and if it meets twice a week, that's 40 hours of classes.  Plus 
> > her NEWT classes.  Plus reading all those homework assignments that 
> > Harry complains about -- it must take half an hour just to read 
> > Hermione's parchments alone.  Forget about the house-elves, 
> > Hermy, help the teachers!
> 
> Now Neri:
> I wondered about number of teaching hours myself for some time. 
> The problem is actually even worse than you presented it.
<snip> 
Regarding checking homework assignments, however, I'd be very 
> surprised if a competent witch such as Prof. McGonagal does not 
> have a Homework Checking Quill or something of that sort. I'm sure 
> there are many ways magic can spare you tedious teaching work, although 
> I'm not going to think about them because it makes me sick with envy 
> (I was a university instructor myself).
> 
> Neri

Yolanda here:
I started to add it up once, then stopped.  It 
seemed like an awful lot of hours, so I thought 
I was doing it wrong.  

I agree with that the professors have magical
ways of reducing grunt work, but I thought I'd
mention this.

In the movie, we have the Grey Lady in McGonagall's 
classroom and she appeared to be writing.  For some 
reason, I always thought she was checking papers, 
since that's what McGongall also appeared to be 
doing.  I know that isn't book canon, but it would 
make some sense.

Getting back to the subject of workloads, McGonagall 
and the other Heads of House must really have full
schedules.  All four of them teach required courses
and still find time to look after their houses.  Plus, 
McGonagall has "Deputy Headmistress" duties on top of 
all that.  Oh wait, and she's in the OOtP.  McGonagall
must be *very* organized and have a lot of energy.

Yolanda