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When I taught middle school it was 100% beginning to end, and roughly an hour before and after my scheduled start time. Even the four minutes between classes included a duty.
Right now, I have three classes a day, a total of 2:30 MWF and 3:20 T-Th. I have required office hours during which I'm required to be in or around my office and available to meet with students or academic advisees. Near the beginning of the semester, it's a little busy, and near the end very busy, but in the middle I tend to have days when I'm alone.
Prep work, reading, and grading papers is probably another 2-3 hours a day, but that varies greatly depending on the time in the semester, and teaching a new class as I'm doing right now adds to the prep time.
I'm salaried though, not hourly, and except for scheduled office hours and classes, I don't have a set time I have to be at work or leave. So long as I'm there for those things and getting the work done, how long it takes me and where I do it doesn't really matter.
So I picked most of the time. I'm "on the clock" let's see--850 minutes in class, ten hours of office hours, so my offical work time is 22.5 hours a week. After the first six weeks, that will drop to 20 hours when my methods class ends, but I start student teacher supervision.
Since I do a lot more actual work than the 20-22 hours that are required, but I'm not always doing directly work related tasks during that time, I voted most of the time. I'm probably doing another 20 hours each week on top of what's required.
Gilda
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