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sidjameson · Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 629 Location: osaka

Simple enough question. What for you is the optimum number of teaching hours a week? Lets say the salary would remain the same no matter what.

For me, it's no more than 15, but actually my current load of 9 feels just about right. Smile

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

6. All in one day.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I actually quite like my 20 per week, but I have extensive holiday time every year, so it evens out to less, if you want averages.

Van Norden · Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 409

saint57 · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

If I could be paid my current wage for 12 hours a week, I'd be a happy man. I'm contracted for 18.75, but I took an extra class for OT.

Aramas · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject:

Why would anyone not choose zero? It's money for nothing, and apparently there's a precedent that one's 'chicks' should also be for free Cool

Where do I sign?

saint57 · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject:

Van Norden · Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 409

Zero? That aint workin...

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

lollercauster · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 418 Location: Inside-Out NYC

Nada, of course. I'd find my own fun by myself. Hell, going into work and not feeling the obligation of having to teach is quite a good feeling.

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

Tough question. 12 to 18 sounds about right, in the sense that I could do a REALLY good job, and enjoy myself. More than choose how much to teach, I really wish I could choose WHO to teach...

Best,
Justin

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Right now I'm teaching 15 per week (3 hrs/day), which I find to be a very easy schedule. A couple of semesters I've taught 20/week, which is fine but keeps me busy. 25 or higher is tough; at my previous school I sometimes had to teach as much as 30 hours per week: it was exhausting and the lessons suffered for it.

Aramas · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject:

Jizzo T. Clown · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject:

15 would be perfect--3/day M-F! Cool

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Depends on what, if anything, the school would expect me to do when I wasn't in the classroom. I'd much rather be in class with students (I really do enjoy being in the classroom!) than stuck in an office doing administrative work. I tend to be pretty efficient, so I can get lessons planned and materials and tests designed fairly quickly, but if there is an arbitrary number of hours that I have to work then I'd rather spend them, to a reasonable extent, in the classroom. "Reasonable" being up to 20.

I had an ideal situation in Japan a couple of years back: technically, we had a 40-hour week. 20 classroom hours, 5 office hours, and 15 hours of prep time. There was nobody strictly enforcing those 15 hours, though, so once I was done prepping I would go to the computer lab, hang out in the library, etc.

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