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Clancy
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 Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 6:55 am Post subject: RMB per hour or per teaching period? |
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This is a new trap for the newbie!
The ad says 12 hours. This is actually 18 teaching periods.
Teaching periods are 40 minutes each.
4,000 for 12 hours sounds great and you think there is time for other outside teaching. But it is realy 4,000 for 18 teaching periods and you have little time left for outside teaching. 18 teaching periods is really 18 hours of your time, not 12. |
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tony lee
Joined: 03 Apr 2004
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 1:32 am Post subject: Also make very sure |
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| that you are not expected to do any unpaid travelling to outlying campuses or between business or school locations. They can add up to your paid teaching load or more and any travel allowance they pay you is rarely enough to compensate. |
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struelle
Joined: 16 May 2003
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Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: RMB per hour or per teaching period? |
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| 4,000 for 12 hours sounds great and you think there is time for other outside teaching. But it is realy 4,000 for 18 teaching periods and you have little time left for outside teaching. 18 teaching periods is really 18 hours of your time, not 12. |
Actual time isn't the problem as those 40 minutes do go extremely fast. I teach these periods and I must go at a brisk pace to cover my lesson plan and keep the attention of teens.
The problem with 40 minute periods is that there are big gaps in between them. Imagine teaching one period, waiting for a couple hours, and doing another period of two. Technically, the wait time is off time, but it really isn't. Best to use that productively and do lesson planning then. Once that's over ..... Dave's!
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Clancy
Joined: 23 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Steve:
You resemble my remarks.
No real life, only cyber life - due to those long waits between periods?
lol |
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Teacher Lindsay
Joined: 31 Mar 2004
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Location: Luxian, Sichuan
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 5:25 am Post subject: |
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My "worst" day is Tuesday; first class at 8:00 am and the next class is at 2:20 pm. However, at this school I'm free to come and go as I please [I can leave the school grounds] and my oncampus apartment is a 5 minute walk away from the building in which I teach so I don't mind the gaps.
Steve, no TV, don't like to read, go for a walk in this lovely sunshine?
Clancy has a good point for newbies though. My employer advertised the salary for 20 - 25 teaching hours, and explained that a teaching hour was 40 minutes.
Another thing for newbies to look out for [with regard to language schools] is a travelling allowance.
This means that, after teaching one or two periods at one place, you will have to travel to another location for your next class. I have heard some teachers say that they have to travel for 1 hour or more between sites.
AND travelling time is not included in your contracted hours, i.e. 20 teaching hours PLUS another 10 hours wasted travelling from one place to another.
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Clancy
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Travel time at our uni is paid @ 100 rmb per hr while teaching time is paid much less. Better to be paid to sleep on the uni's bus than to teach in class?
No one seems to complain about the travel between campuses. |
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Teacher Lindsay
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 10:40 am Post subject: |
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Clancy wrote:-
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| Travel time at our uni is paid @ 100 rmb per hr while teaching time is paid much less |
Have you ever asked them the logic for this?
Anyway, my advice related to language schools the bulk of whom, I believe, DO NOT pay for travelling time.
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Clancy
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Logic? In China?
You are kidding, right? |
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