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[T-J]

10 am to 10 pm four days a week.

8 am to 10 pm two days a week.

76 hours a week.

Additional Sundays for four to six hours during test intensives.

[blackjack]

1 to 4 five days a week. I'm going to miss this job in a few years

[toonchoon]

[Louis VI]

1 or 2 hours of work a weekday,... the rest of the time is pure pleasure

[T-J]

[DorkothyParker]

My old schedule was 9:20-5:20 with a working lunch (grumble).

My new schedule is 10:30-5:30 and I can leave during my hour lunch. Though, I eat the school lunch because it's free and I don't mind spending the first quarter of my lunch with the wee ones. I work pretty much straight through on that schedule with only 5 or ten minutes between each class. Also there is no time specifically set for lesson planning so I usually go in 20 minutes early each day to get my bearings and print things and what not.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Tigerstyleone]

I work 3.5 hours a day M-F from 12:50-4:20

[ddeubel]

I hope those who have posted here, with share this info. more permanently (but anonymously) on
the map I set up for this.

I'll be adding search and improving in several ways shortly. Stay tuned.

In any case, I think it great people are sharing info. about their jobs and making the whole job hunt more transparent.

I work at home, when I want to! (for now)

DD
http://eflclassroom.com

[JFuller317]

I have the standard Daegu public school hours of 8:30-4:30. Generally I have 4-5 classes per day. Classes don't start until 9:10, but the time between 8:30 and 9:10 is filled with administrative stuff, so I'd consider that work time. So that's 26 or so hours a week.

I teach 3 grade levels, plus the really low level 9th graders, so that's 4 lessons a week to prepare. Most weeks I just create one main lesson outline and then scale it up or down for each grade level, changing the vocab or making the questions more or less difficult, so the prep time isn't that bad. I'd say I spend maybe 1-4 hours on lesson planning. It only goes up to 4 hours if I decide to make an intricate powerpoint.

So in general, I spend about 27-30 hours a week actually working. In my experience, this is on par with the average American office job. Some of my classes are so horrific that I pretty much spend the entire next period recovering from them.

[CtotheB]

Those of you with sweet gigs should at least post your qualifications so we can see if you lucked out or have worked your way up (I'm guessing mostly the latter)

But maybe one day you'll hook a Dave's brother up with a job like yours? Pretty please? Summer 2011?

[Xylox]

6 Hours a day unless I want overtime. 11 - 5:50 with a 1 hour lunch in between.

Uber chill hogwan, I usually start classes 5 minutes late and let the kids out 5 minutes early. I just have to do a page or two in a book then play games for the remainder of the time.

No special quals.

[weebil]

[Justin Richard]

I only recently moved back to Korea but my record for teaching hours, only teaching hours is 14.5 hours in Taiwan and that required more than 3 hours in travel time.

[kardisa]

2:30pm - 7:30pm 3 days a week
2:30pm - 9:30pm 2 days a week

Those hours include 1 hour a day of prep time.