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  • hfester
    hfester Posts: 114 Member
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    Present. High school French.

    I am up and down a lot, but I don't think I cover a lot of ground, except for beating a path between my room and the restroom down the hall every 50 minutes.
  • djangeum
    djangeum Posts: 2
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    special ed is indeed special. i can imagine the energy expended in order to keep everything running smoothly. congrats for lasting all those years (in skirts and heels to boot)! in my case, its pants and flats most of the time, since we move around a lot ( I have to, especially with all those kids), and at the end of the day, i really have to put my feet up for a while. that's why i bought a pedometer, because i was wondering how many mileage i was getting moving around. sadly though, as i observed, it really wasn't much.
  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
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    I teach preschool (3 and 4 year olds) in a facility that has 100,000 square feet of space for us to use. Going back and forth across the whole building at least 4 times a day, up and down the stairs at least 12 times a day, back and forth across the playground at least 30 times a day, back and forth across my classroom at LEAST 200 times a day, up and down from the floor a million times a day, playing tag, carrying kids, dancing, tumbling, climbing monkey bars, etc etc etc. I've been wearing my pedometer for about a month now. During work hours alone (9 hours), I'm logging between 16,000 and 21,000 steps a day. I'm calling that 'very active'.
  • emphoto2003
    emphoto2003 Posts: 37 Member
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    I teach elementary music. I don't have a room so I'm on a cart and walking all over the building. We also dance a lot! So I average 10,000 steps just in the school day. Before I got my fitbit I didn't realize how many steps I was taking every day! Wow! I had to change my activity level from lightly active to active and this has helped me lose weight.
  • booyainyoface
    booyainyoface Posts: 409 Member
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    severely handicapped special education (middle school). i run, stand, squat, chase, lift, reach, i don't sit for more than a 2 minute period unless i'm working on IEPs, as my kiddos are very involved, and hyper! i still lift weights, but don't worry about cardio :)

    i also usually wear flip-flops to work (much to the administrators dislike) and haven't lost any toes yet :)
  • mlogantra76
    mlogantra76 Posts: 334 Member
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    I teach high school math. I don't really count my movement throughout the day as exercise. I am on my feet a good period of the time. I do have some feet issues so I wear sneakers now. I never could wear flimsy sandals, heels, etc... but now all my work shoes hurt my feet. I have bunion pain in one foot and plantar fasciitis like pain in the other after my weekly long run. Neither is very painful... Just "there" I've decided to wear sneakers exclusively.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
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    science here, biology specialist
  • olehcat
    olehcat Posts: 92 Member
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    I'm a reading teacher at an elementary school. I teach small groups of kids who need extra help in reading, which means walking around the school every thirty minutes to pick up groups. However, we're all sitting around a table for the actual teaching part, so not as strenuous as other teaching jobs I have had where you're on your feet all day. However, during the three times a year testing times, I am walking non-stop back and forth to get individual students to give a brief reading test to!
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
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    I'm an English teacher in Russia. Basically, I teach Russian teens at an English school. I love it. I'm not on my feet as much as your normal teacher but according to my BodyMedia I burn an average of around 2,200 calories a day.
  • czmmom
    czmmom Posts: 236 Member
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    I teach high school math. While I am on my feet a lot - walking around my classroom and around the building - I think that the lightly active is okay for me. One of these days I will get a pedometer and see exactly how active I am. Play with your settings and see what works for you! :smile:
  • nailjen
    nailjen Posts: 2 Member
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    I also teach high school math. I feel like a lot of the fatigue is from the concrete floors. I recently invested in my first really nice pair of shoes and there is a notable difference in when I wear those and when I don't. I do feel like the groups in my classroom facilitate a lot of me running around the room though.

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