Teaching conditions and teachers' hours vary considerably around the world.
How many classroom hours do you teach each week?
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Comments
Nik Peachey
Angela China
I sympathise with those who teach many hours, but I also think class size makes a huge difference, particularly if you spend time assessing subjects such as speaking and writing. This academic year my average class size has been over 50.
GSteed
First off - How long is your class hour? Poland uses a 45 minute hour. Some schools use 50 or 55 minute hours.
Primary school teachers may teach or be present the full school day. HS teachers usully get an hour or time for themselves. College teachers often teach 3 classes a week! Some University professors either teach one class or a seminar. Some never see a classroom or a student.
English teachers need time to read and grade homework, essays and such. It is the same with math and science teachers. They may have limited class time but spend twice as long with classwork.
There is no set or standard time. It depends on the administration. Some schools have teaching hours set by school boards.
The best situation for a student is to have tutor! One on one! This an attraction of home-schooling.
Fast
I'm an associate professor from Moscow and I teach more than 60 academic hours a week. In Russia one academic hour lasts 45 min. And I've got 3 jobs. Teaching languages in Moscow (I teach the top management of big companies) is more about walking, because the offices are located in different parts of the city, but it's not about professional growth. Otherwise people who earn their lives by teaching won't survive. Apparently those who need or want to improve the professional skills should't work more than 24 hours a week.
dcklondon
There is so much more to take into account than just how many classroom hours one is expected to work.
In addition to how long an academic hour is, I think one also has to consider the number of courses being taught. Last year I taught at a school where we had 26 academic hours per week. An hour was 60 minutes. However, there were only 5 courses and the timetable was blocked. M/W/F 12 - 2, 4 - 6, and 6:30 - 8:30. T/Th 4 - 6, 6:30 - 8:30.
This year, I'm working at a school where we have 26.5 academic hours per week. An academic hour is only 45 minutes, so in theory I should have a lot more time. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have 11 different courses (many of which have no course book), start as early as 7:30am and don't finish some days until 8:30pm, and the amount of travelling from one in company class to another and back to the school can be as much as 3 hours/day. Knackering.
jscholte
JACKIE
Hi, how long have you been teaching in Greece? I've been teaching in Greece fro years adn things don't change. Too many hours and too much preperation and too much marking but if you organise yourself and as time goes by and you get used to the books things get better.
Jackie
abdulloh
Teaching too much hours is difficult to reach the target orientation for the student progress. here i have 43 hours teaching in a week.45 minutes per hour. 45 - 50 students per class. i aware that that is very difficult for me to efective and profesional. becouse too much teaching and no preparation before teaching likes; making lesson plan, materials, agenda, media etc.
My school is private scool located in East Jave Indonesia exactly in near from the accident of exploration of drilling gas SIDOAJO
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dilekgokce
this year I work for thirty hours,in my school the size of the classes are over 35 students.Sometimes when I come home,I can't do anyhing but sit and want listen the sound silence..