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[Tamaby]

Hi All,
I have been asked to teach an afterschool programme twice a week for my elementary school (grades 4-6).
Does anyone have any experience with these programmes? Do you have co-teachers? Anyone get guidelines from their school in terms of what to teach?
I have also heard sometimes these programmes require a separate contract to your teaching one.. and that they go alllllll year (including during vacation time).
Advice, experiences, thoughts and ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks

[Otherside]

You may or may not have assistance from your co-teacher(s).
I teach 2 afterschool programmes, one for 1-2 grade students and one for 3-6 grade students. Initially I had a lot of support from my co-teachers (as in, they basically ran the class, sorted out all the prep etc and I was an assistant). Recently, my co-teachers have been "very busy" (well actually, one is overseas on a language course) and I've been running the classes by myself. On the plus side, I just use the same series of materials that my co-teachers used so prep is minimal. However, I'm free to do what I want in the class. (If I feel that today we are going to watch Mr Bean, then Mr Bean it is...)

You don't need to sign an additional contract or anything, and the afterschool classes will count as overtime (However, you will only get overtime when you teach more than 22 classes a week - afterschool+regular classes).

Often afterschool classes will carry on into the vacation - My afterschool classes are practically identical to my summer camp classes. However, you'll still be entitled to your contractual number of vacation days (20 for GEPIK), but bare in mind, you probably won't make 22 hours during the vacation, so you won't be paid overtime. (I teach 20 classes a week during the vacation, so no overtime for me.) If you are lucky, you may be able to go home when your classes finish (in my case, I can go home at 12 during the vacation).

Bare in mind, according to the standard PS contract, you are contractually obligated to teach 6 hours of overtime a week (i.e. 28 classes a week), so if you are under this amount, the school's request for you to teach afterschool classes is not so much a request as a politly worded demand.

Simply put, go with the flow, try out some new teaching methods and materials and bank some coin.