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neonemesis
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
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 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:01 am Post subject: Question about teaching hours. |
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I've been offered a position teaching with a private elementary school and I've pretty much been told that I'll have to teach exactly 30 hours a week. thats not 30 40min classes, rather its a solid 30 hours, which works out to 45 classes a week. Is this the norm for private schools or should I start look elsewhere?
Also the pay is mediocre at best, 2,100,000krw.
edit: on the flip side though, the classes would be really really small, no more than 6-8 kids per class, which would really be ideal for me since it would give me more 1 on 1 time. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:09 am Post subject: Re: Question about teaching hours. |
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| neonemesis wrote: |
I've been offered a position teaching with a private elementary school and I've pretty much been told that I'll have to teach exactly 30 hours a week. thats not 30 40min classes, rather its a solid 30 hours, which works out to 45 classes a week. Is this the norm for private schools or should I start look elsewhere?
Also the pay is mediocre at best, 2,100,000krw.
edit: on the flip side though, the classes would be really really small, no more than 6-8 kids per class, which would really be ideal for me since it would give me more 1 on 1 time. |
That is way more teaching hours than you should have to do as a private elementary school teacher. In my experience, you should be teaching anywhere from 25-28 forty minute classes per week. 45 classes is an insane amount of classes for that salary. You could definitely do better elsewhere. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: Re: Question about teaching hours. |
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| neonemesis wrote: |
I've been offered a position teaching with a private elementary school and I've pretty much been told that I'll have to teach exactly 30 hours a week. thats not 30 40min classes, rather its a solid 30 hours, which works out to 45 classes a week. Is this the norm for private schools or should I start look elsewhere?
Also the pay is mediocre at best, 2,100,000krw.
edit: on the flip side though, the classes would be really really small, no more than 6-8 kids per class, which would really be ideal for me since it would give me more 1 on 1 time. |
IT is not normal, it is insane.
That is the reason we tell newbies to clearly get the definition of a classroom hour defined in their contract.
Just an FYI: a public school teacher with NO experience and only a non-related BA degree earns the same salary for 22 classes of 40 minutes per week and 20k per extra class (plus they get all the other benefits like medical/pension/up to 6 weeks paid holiday, airfare, housing, etc).
45 classes = double work load and 4 mil per month.
Say no that that crap and move on.
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