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[dyak]

45 plus prep... so my 5 minute break for this week is now over.

[yaramaz]

This year I teach only 18 45-minute lessons, but last year I taught 24. Same pay, but now I'm in the high school part of my K-12 rather than primary. My classes are smaller (10 kids vs 34) and I see them more often- one class I teach about 2 or 3 times a day. It's nice having so much contact time with my kids and not having to teach the same lesson to 6 different classes of 10 year olds....

I am also in charge of the school newspaper, but that mainly involves delegating work to the other English teachers to get their students to produce material.

I have to be in the Dept from around 8:30 or 9 am until around 4pm, even if I don't have lessons (ie on Tuesdays I only have one class, at noon). I do a lot of emailing...

I don't have to attend the school meetings because I don't understand enough Turkish... I get the summary in English the next day. Also, my department is very small so we don't hold formal meetings-- anything important is usually brought up over tea in the school garden...

[Wolf]

I teach 4*90 minute classes(literture), plus 3*140 minute classes per week(speaking). The speaking classes I've taught before, and the literature class I have a plan for, so my week to week preparation time isn't a whole lot (a couple of hours, I don't really time it.)

However, once my books arrive from Guangzhou (where they've been sightseeing for a week ) I'll have a lot of at home study to do.

[basiltherat]

bad thing is ... im working monday thru saturday. 08.00 to 16.00 every day with 1 hour for lunch. so 42 hours a week not including prep time. it sucks but .... good thing is .... at least im paid well for it.
basil

[Chris]

Good topic!

Last year I was going absolutely crazy with approximately 35 clock hours contact and 15-25 clock hours prep.

This year, much more manageable.

Mon to Thurs: 12x80 minute classes from 4-8:20pm + 1x60 minute office hour/month (private lang school)
Mondays: 2 hours from 8-10am (in company)
3 Tuesdays/mo: 1x90 minute lecture (business topics at a local business college) from 8-9:30am
1-2 Saturdays/month: 5x45 minute business workshop from 9am-1:05pm (local economics university)

Now, for most of these, there is not much prep anymore because I've worked from the books already, but of course, copying, materials development and the like are on my own. The lectures can sometimes have a lot of prep, but as I've been doing this for 2 1/2 years now, I can usually recycle my lectures. New this year--NO tests! Last year in addition to the above, I was working 16x45 minutes at a local university which required test prep and the like. But I've cut it out of my schedule because the pay was extremely low.

[dmb]

I'm looking forward to Ramadan when I teach 4x30 minute lessons a day(sunday to Thursday) by the time you take the register and wake the students up, it's time for a break(where they go for a quick sleep and next lesson you do it all again)

[Gordon]

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