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[Grotto]

My new job 25 x 40 minutes for 2.64

My old job ((7x25)+(4x45)+(1x60))x5 for 2.0

[thegadfly]

Ouch Horangi! Good lawd, but that's a lot of classes! Especially if one has to prepare for them -- I find that it takes me nearly the same amount of time to prep for a 40 minute class as it does for a 55 minute class -- my students are all able to take a turn in the longer classes, whereas only 3 or 4 students get a go at the activities in my shorter classes.....

Horangi, you definitely earn your 3.3 million, even if your "hours" are comparable to folks at 2.0 or 2.5 million.

Personally, one class equals one "hour," unless the class is more than an hour...and I get the "teaching hours" stiipulated as such in my contract. As has been stated, the 50-minute "hour" is pretty standard (I currently have 55 minute "hours" and some 85 minute "hour and a half" classes...my base "26 class hours" is technically 24 hours and change, though those 5 minute "breaks" slip by practically unnoticed).

[Dalton]

I have 63 classes a week. 20, 30 and 40 min. Total 29.5 hours a week.
13 classes on MWF and 12 classes TTh.

Two months left. They want me to sign on for another year .

They won't let me excercise any discipline on the students or play games, use word searches, use material I print up from the internet at home (grammer, conversation, printing excercises for example). They told me it was a waste of paper. These rules evolved over time, picking up in the last two months. These rules don't apply to the Korean teachers of course.

Teachers are in the class with me for all KG every day and one 40 min. conversation class MWF.

I not terribly distraught because I can do it but I'll be prowling for something better (like that'll be difficult ). Like another poster said - recruiters slough off bad schools first and I was too hasty. I'm like that sometimes.

[the_beaver]

Just because I have time on my hands waiting for some things to download.

At the moment I teach 0 classes a week with 0 hours per class.

[Dalton]

63-0 sounds like a superbowl score involving Buffalo .

[Badmojo]

[guangho]

28 classes, 50 minutes each.

2.1 and free housing.

[eamo]

25-27 hours a week. (why ask how many classes? A class could be 30 mins to 2 hours. It's all about the hours!).

Still, it's too much. 5 hours (contact time) a day is the maximum a teacher can do without feeling like a scooped out melon at the end of each day. 4 hours would be more realistic.

I've noticed recently how many hagwons are putting working hours into their contracts. This is a bad sign. I'm asked to be in the office from 1-9:30 regardless of whether classes have finished and prep is all done for the next day. Just bone-headed Korean thinking. Quantity of hours worked seems to be more important than quality of work done.

My two bosses come early and leave late. They're doing 12 hours a day easy. Often more. Yet they don't do much. The hagwons not busy. There's nothing to do. They're just pottering around doing little pissy things that don't need done. Bugging all the staff.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Me too, half the year it's zero hours per week. The other half is twelve hours per week. 1.8m, next year a fair bit more.