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[Jon Taylor]

A recent post (any net site where i can find a list of high schools), has given me cause to ask the following question?

How many hours (not including overtime) do you work for (inclusive of teaching and preperation) in an average week ?

I myself teach between 12-18 hours per week and most of my classes are one on ones and require little preperation.

This gives me a total working week of 20-22 hours.

[bearcat]

Your 22 or so hours is inclusive of the time you are physically at your place of employment doing any duties or nothing? You see some teachers may work a split schedule where they are working a few hours in the morn then again a few in the afternoon during the interim time that may not be teaching but have other duties(greeting, cleaning, supervising/babysitting, and or not permitted to leave the school/company but remain there.


Is this schedule considered by your company/school to be full time or less than full time?

[Jon Taylor]

Ok Bearcat,

My position is considered full time.

Any hours that you have to remain at the workplace are considered as working hours.

This incudes tasks such as meeting, greeting, cleaning, supervising and babysitting.

[guest of Japan]

I'm at work an average of 40 hours a week. I don't work in an Eikaiwa, but when I did, the average was about 45 hours.

[Glenski]

Jon,
It's fair and more accurate if your survey actually asks what type of employer one has. You are going to find differences with high school, JET program ALTs, eikaiwa, jukus, university, etc. What's yours?

My previous conversation school had me TEACHING 16 80-minute classes per 5-day work week. That works out to 1280 minutes, or 21.3 hours of class time per week. We were allowed to leave the building anytime we liked. There were always times when we had to stay and interview prospective students, and most of the teachers stuck around for an extra hour or two between/before classes to plan lessons and make photocopies. That works out to 5-10 more hours per week, or a total of at least 26 to 31 hours per week in the office.

Where I work now, a private high school, I still teach 15-17 classes per week, but they are only 45 minutes long. Still, I have half a dozen meetings to attend per week (1-3 hours long each), plus lesson planning, plus homework to grade, plus standardized tests to proctor and later correct, plus club activities (mandatory), etc. I put in 10-12 hours a day, Monday to Friday, and I work 6-10 hours every other Saturday. Oh, and my club is not a sports club, but for those that have such, they work even longer because of daily 2-4 hours of practice 6 to 7 days a week.