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[maximmm]

In Korea, in elementary schools, one is required to stay in school 8 hours per day. Some days I don't have any lessons due to some field trips which the students might be on, but I'm still required to come to school and stay there for 8 hours.
Normally I have 4 or 5 lessons per day, which means that I still have to stay in school for 3 more hours.
Is it the same in public schools in Thailand? What about private schools?

[Kent F. Kruhoeffer]

I think you'll find that it varies from school to school.

Government schools (a.k.a. public schools) & universities

often require the teacher to 'sit' for office hours.


Language schools usually don't.


I work for a private consulting agency

which arranges company classes -

and never even visit the office.


In most cases, this is spelled out in the contract.

If not, it definitely pays to ask before you sign up.


I hate sitting at a desk doing nothing.

[Solar Strength]

I teach 10 hours per week.

I hang in my office for a few hours each week before and after classes, though.

When I worked in Korea, Japan and in Taiwan I worked 40 - 60 hours per week.

I have friends who teach on average 25 - 30 hours per week. However, some of them are required to stay at the school when they aren't teaching.

They also teach 6 days a week.

I'd say a fair and resonable contract would have you teaching 25 hrs approx. per week, allows you to leave the bulding when you aren't teaching to grab a coffee, hit the gym or go home for a few hours if you live nearby the school until your next class.

I'd also look for a contract that doesn't require Saturday/Sunday classes -they're out there, you just gotta find them.

At 30 + hours per week classroom time, most people are not at top form and tend to get run down, stessed and become less effective in the classroom.

[Boy Wonder]

I teach at Assumption College.
We are required to be here from 8am to 4pm....5 days a week in which we teach 20 hours of classes.
We sign in every morning both on a written register and on a fingerprint machine and must sign out in the afternoon by way of the same process.
So we spend 40 hours a week actually at the school.

But you know what... that's ok.....we have unlimited internet access, our own desks and resource room and free canteen food should we want to eat there.

I can think of a lot worse places to spend 8 hours a day and shudder when i remember many of the places i was required to spend my work time in..!!

[Miyazaki]

[Boy Wonder]

20,000-30,000..

I wouldn't get out of bed for that

Try 50,000...worth even signing in like prisoner on weekend leave every morning..!!!

[Miyazaki]

BW,

The reason I ask is because I received an offer from an Assumption University. (I notice now you wrote, "Assumption College" and not "Assumption University" - they are different then?).

Anyways, the method of clocking-in every morning and the number of hours and days per week required look similar to the offers I received - they were in the range I quoted above.

As you'd probably guess, I politely declined their offer.

[AnchorMan]

I'm teaching 16 hrs/week at a goverment (public) school in Bangkok. If I want, I can arrive 5 minutes before my first lesson of the day, and I'm on my way home within 10 minutes of finishing the last lesson. Of course there are inconveniences which occur - like asking (only) their English teachers to perform a Christmas activity in morning assembly on the last school day before Christmas. And with only 2 days preparation time!