But the paper, published by the Nuffield Foundation and UCL Institute of Education, also found high working hours have been relatively unchanged for 20 years — making it unlikely that workload is to blame for the teacher retention crisis.
The report, published today, said teachers work an average of 47 hours a week in term time, eight hours more than teachers in comparable OECD countries. One in four teachers work more than 59 hours a week, while 10 per cent work more than 65 hours per week.
Around 40 per cent said they usually work in the evening, and 10 per cent during the weekend. At my centre, the marking gets factored into the pay. How much depends on how many classes the teacher takes on and the qualification the teacher possesses. If I remember correctly, most tuition centres pay their staff a fixed salary which encompasses admin, teaching, marking, etc etc. No admin paid for though of course we do lots!
It's a difficult situation because prep is a very important task in teaching, but here in Brazil, the schools, colleges, universities, they don't pay for it. Some believe that the increasing competitiveness and profit-maximising businesses in our industry has led to the deskilling of our teachers. However, the freelance Business English trainers who responded had a very different take on the matter.
Business English trainers. Not so easy when employed by a language school, though. It's part of the overall package surely? So no problem for me. If I don't think my prep and admin time are covered fairly I go elsewhere. I think the same still applies in a language school - you need to make sure that you are happy with the compensation they offer.
So you need to clarify exactly what is involved and what they expect before you sign that initial contract. So it's normal for time to be spent outside the teaching time in prep, etc. Could it be that Business English trainers are more entrepreneurial and therefore more capitalist in their views? They are then allowed to handle students after 4 weeks of training. No wonder they are not paid well. Compare this to teachers in the state school system in any country who have to go through years and years training and therefore are paid accordingly.
Our situations may be varied, but perhaps this is best summarized by the following comment that one of the respondents made. Fascinated by the interplay between culture, language and thought, Chia is also an intercultural skills trainer and materials developer, and is now based in York.
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Home Blog by Chia Suan Chong. The working hours of a teacher - Part 1 A few weeks ago, I posed this question on Twitter and Facebook: Do you spend a lot of your time outside your teaching hours doing prep, marking and general admin work?
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