how many hours a week is a teacher contracted to work?

Answer 1

For a teacher in the primary and secondary level, we are expected to report for 9 hours daily from Monday thru Friday. That makes it 45 hours a week. We are given a teaching load of 1600 mins/week which is equivalent to 26.67 hrs/wk. But delivering the lesson which is observed in the classroom scenario is just 15% of the total work. The rest goes to the preparation i.e. lesson plan, research, collaboration, visual aids, etc. . . Teaching as a profession is no doubt, one of the noblest vocation of all.

Answer 2

In Further Education Colleges in the UK, teachers are contracted to have 21 hours a week in the classroom and handle around 12 - 14 different classes and/or groups a week. The remaining16 hours a week is for lesson preparation, tutorials with students (who get a minimum of an hour a month), writing and marking tests, assignments and exams and ... filling in all the blasted paperwork that nobody reads.
Employment contracts stipulate that teachers may have to travel to other campuses for which no time is included in the 37 hours a week contract. With an average of 30 students per group, 14 groups means a lot of prep and a lot of marking and paperwork. The contracts also stiplulate that teachers hours may be timetabled for weekends, bank holidays and be timed anywhere between 9.00 am to 9.30 pm with "time off" in the middle of the day. On top of all this, we put up with rudeness, bad manners, disruptive behaviour, etc. from the students ... but then it is supposed to be a calling, not just a job.

Answer 3

I work as an EFL teacher and currently work 10 hours a week but thats in an university in China so doesn't count. In England the contracted hours are a yearly quota that is very rarely reached (to make it possible to give extra work without violating the contract) but 22 to 26 teaching hours per week is normal with the preparation for lessons being in addition to them. This can mean 60 or more depending on subject and experience

Answer 4

For me, I am contracted to be at school at 6:40 and can leave at 2:10. However, that rarely happens. Most teachers come to school early, leave late and even take home work. You are only contracted to work certain hours a day, but that is not enough time to get everything done. I also have to work 5 hours a year outside of the school day at school events. Ballgames, plays, dances, etc...

People like to say, you have an easy job, you "only" work 7:00-2:00, and have week-ends and summers off. This is not the whole truth. Yes, I only have to be at school a certain number of hours, but I do a whole lot more work than I am paid for!

Check with the school district and see what their school hours are. In our district, high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools all have different hours and different expectations of the amount of time you are to put in.

Answer 5

The maximum number of hours that the teacher can be called upon to work in a given year is 1260 or 1370, or something of that order.

However, if you are a teacher, just try to get your working hours down to that. Book marking and lesson preparation falls outside these hours as you are 'choosing' to do this work in your own time (just try 'not choosing' to do it!).

In effect the teacher has an almost open ended working week; one English teacher I worked at the same school as routinely worked until 10pm and all day Sunday to keep on top of the marking, she took Saturday off, presumably she felt that she owed herself that treat.

Answer 6

I am a lecturer and I do 37 hours a week, I think teachers are on about 35?

Answer 7

Another way to ask the question, of all the hours that a teacher teaches, how many of them are paid hours?

Answer 8

In the UK, primary teachers contracted to work 195 days per year with 190 being contact days i.e. that you have to work with the children.

Answer 9

Teachers pay and conditions in England and Wales requires them to be available for work on 195 days per year and be available to teach pupils for 190 of those. The number of contracted hours per year is 1265, so:

1265 / 195 = 6.49 hours per day, five days a week = 32.4 hours.

That's what they get paid for. I don't know one that can do all their work in that time, though!

Answer 10

I'm assuming you're referring to the USA? I think it's sufficient to say teachers are expected to put in as many hours as it takes... which is typically a LOT more than the hours in a school day. Are you thinking about becoming a teacher?