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Deats · Joined: 02 Jan 2015 Posts: 503

At uni I had a max of 16 hours a week, sometimes as few as 12 hours a week (an hour being a 45 min class - so actually 9-12 hours in real time)

I usually had Mondays off. And the other hours were split across Tue-Fri. If I had 2 lessons that followed on, then I had a 30 minute break when I would lesson plan for the following day. Sometimes I didn't need that much time, sometimes I needed more. It depended on whether I had taught that topic previously or not. I had a stupid class about introducing foreign countries that I taught about 4 times a week for 90 mins (half my classes) for a couple of years. It was the same lesson so NEVER a new lesson plan. I could walk in asleep and teach it. It was incredibly boring and I was sick and tired of it, but it meant very little work (no marking or prep) so I put up with it. I always had English Corner on a Weds afternoon (again no marking or prep). One semester I worked in an evening (max once a week) and my wife had to do a Saturday class. Both these were 1 semester jobs and we were there for 4 years.