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[gregoryfromcali]

I've noticed a lot of jobs in which you get an ARC card want the teachers to work 6 days a week.

Where I am at now it is easy to only work 4 days if you want to and you'll still have enough to get by.

I'm currently working 6 days and I'm used to it but it isn't ideal.

How many days a week do you work?

Do most teachers work 6 days week?

[clark.w.griswald]

A lot of teachers who are teaching at standard kids buxibans, or even adult buxibans teach six days a week.

There are however more and more positions that only require teachers to teach Monday to Friday. These are in the conventional kids buxibans, but involve the teaching of kids in what are called 'anqing' programs. In these programs the kids come to the buxiban everyday after school and do their Chinese school homework. Part of the program often includes daily English classes.

This is opposed to the previous standard of two days a week two hours each time. This system saw days paired off such that a teacher who taught on Wednesdays would teach the same classes on Saturdays.

I have noticed a general decline in weekend classes for elementary school aged children.

[matchstick_man]

I work six days a week in a buxiban however I only work two teaching hours on Mondays and Tuesdays. Most jobs used to be six days a week. My workmate keeps telling me jobs in southern Taiwan don't generally have Saturday work. I don't know how true this as I've never lived there.

A little off-topic but there's probably been an increase in Saturday work in the five years I've been here as kids no longer go to school Saturday mornings.

[clark.w.griswald]

[Rice Paddy Daddy]

I taught 7 days a week in Japan but now 3 days a week in Taiwan.

[Fortigurn]

I work a maximum of five days a week, and love it. Sometimes I work as few as three.

[gregoryfromcali]

[zealflyer]

I work 4 1/2 days a week (no homework school on Tuesday) but I could work more if I wanted.

[Aristotle]

[gregoryfromcali]

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