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wfh
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 Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:28 pm Post subject: Annual teaching hours |
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I'm coming up to the end of my second twelve month contract, and for interest's sake, I decided to calculate how many hours I've been teaching during that time.
I calculated that by the time I get to the end of this twelve month contract I'll have clocked approx. 1000 hours, so about 500 classroom hours per annum.
How does that compare with your annual count? More, less, the same? I'd be interested in hearing about others' annual totals. |
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Glenski
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Does it make a difference if you teach a conversation school class, and other people teach high school or university? |
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denise
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Location: finally home-ish
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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I've never calculated it, or even thought about it... 20 hours per week, let's say 40ish weeks per year (probably a few less)... 800. Approximately. Just for this academic year. No idea what my lifetime total is.
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Mike_2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| A typical year for me involves 42 weeks of teaching and a typical week is about 25 hours so that'd be a smidge over 1000 for me too. |
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naturegirl321
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| It-s too depressing for me to calculate. A typical year for me is about 50 weeks, I usually average about 35 hours of teaching a week. |
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MO39
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
| It-s too depressing for me to calculate. A typical year for me is about 50 weeks, I usually average about 35 hours of teaching a week. |
You must be incredibly busy with a teaching schedule like that! Are your classes all in one place, or do you have to add travel time to the 35 hours you spend in the classroom? |
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Kootvela
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| September to April I do roughly 40 hours per week (minus Christmas break, Easter break and autumn break). |
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Mike_2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| You must be incredibly busy with a teaching schedule like that! Are your classes all in one place, or do you have to add travel time to the 35 hours you spend in the classroom? |
Indeed, it would probably be more useful to know the whole package.
For my 25 contact hours I also spend 8-10 hours on prep, 7 hours on travel and let's say an average of 1 hour per week on administrative duties (contracts, invoices, reports for students' bosses/HR dept., etc.). |
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naturegirl321
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| You must be incredibly busy with a teaching schedule like that! Are your classes all in one place, or do you have to add travel time to the 35 hours you spend in the classroom? |
Indeed, it would probably be more useful to know the whole package.
For my 25 contact hours I also spend 8-10 hours on prep, 7 hours on travel and let's say an average of 1 hour per week on administrative duties (contracts, invoices, reports for students' bosses/HR dept., etc.). |
I add travel time, about 3 hours a day. 20 at a uni, 15ish in houses. When unis out, I get more privates. |
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jpvanderwerf2001
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:24 am Post subject: |
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Wow. When put it into annual terms, I guess I teach a boatload of hours  :
40 weeks x 30 hours = 1200 +
40(ish) weeks x 9 ac. hours (privates) = 360 +
12 months x 12 ac. hours (IELTS examining) = 144 hours =
1704 ac. hours/ year (or 35.5 ac. hours/ week).
None of this includes prep time.
Of course, IELTS isn't exactly "teaching", so I guess that could be subtracted. |
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Nabby Adams
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The people who are teaching so much strangely appear to be working in lower paying countries!
If you are going to devote yourself to work (and nothing wrong in that, at least in the short term) then why not do it in the higher paying countries? I mean, Nature Girl, 35 hours a week and another 20 traveling!!! if it's money you are after, why not go to the ME or Japan? Or is there more money in places such as Peru and Russia than most realize? |
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MO39
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| Nabby Adams wrote: |
The people who are teaching so much strangely appear to be working in lower paying countries!
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I think that the reason lots of these people are teaching so many hours is precisely because they are working in countries where the pay is quite low. Otherwise, they wouldn�t make enough money to survive. |
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jpvanderwerf2001
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| MO39 wrote: |
| Nabby Adams wrote: |
The people who are teaching so much strangely appear to be working in lower paying countries!
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I think that the reason lots of these people are teaching so many hours is precisely because they are working in countries where the pay is quite low. Otherwise, they wouldn�t make enough money to survive. |
Not to split hairs, but Russia--while rather expensive, isn't really a "lower-paying" country for TEFL; as a matter of fact it's relatively well-paying. My salary was over $2000/month at the beginning of my contract (now it's around $1500 due to the ruble's drop). I should say, however, that my situation may not be typical.
I work a lot of hours because, quite frankly, private lessons pay quite a lot ($30/academic hour), and IELTS examining, while time-consuming, is no meat-grinder, either (IMO). Therefore, I feel as though I'm not "optimizing" my earning potential if I don't go after those opportunities. I gotta kid to feed! |
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naturegirl321
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Nabby Adams wrote: |
The people who are teaching so much strangely appear to be working in lower paying countries!
If you are going to devote yourself to work (and nothing wrong in that, at least in the short term) then why not do it in the higher paying countries? I mean, Nature Girl, 35 hours a week and another 20 traveling!!! if it's money you are after, why not go to the ME or Japan? Or is there more money in places such as Peru and Russia than most realize? |
Married a local. It's hard to leave once you own a house outright, a car, and have married into the country. Though we are thinking about going to Korea for a year, he couldn't work. |
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Serious_Fun
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:06 am Post subject: |
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I have 494 contact hours per academic year. (13 hours per week, 9.5 months per year.)
That does not include staff meetings, outings, or extracurricular activities such as the "English Club". |
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