I work 40 hours a week for 48 weeks a year. Not a problem but how many hours a year do teachers work?

Question

Teachers are allways whining on about how badly treated they are but do they do as many hours as most people? If they dont they should just shut up and think how lucky they are to only work (i guess) 36 weeks per year. Many of them (but not all i know) take up teaching for the very reason that they can have the same time off as their children (or just plain lazy). Comments in under 50 words by tomorrow please.

Answer 1

It's true that teachers don't work during the summer, but they often get to work much earlier than others, and bring a lot of work home with them. So I think they end up working about the same number of total hours per year as other full-time workers. In addition, teachers are very underappreciated and get dumped on by parents and administrators all the time.

Answer 2

Perhaps all the people who think it's an easy ride in teaching might like to train for the job and join the profession. There's a massive shortage of teachers, particularly in secondary schools. Perhaps anyone who wants to whine about the easy time teachers have would care to join us, or shut up.

I do about 50 hours per week (that's on the premises, before counting work taken home) for 39 weeks per year, and during the other 13 weeks, probably about 10 short (5/6 hour) days.

Answer 3

I am meant to work a 40 hour week and yet I think I must work on average at least a 60+ hour week, and I don't get to work 36 weeks a year as you may think but 44 weeks a year.

This discounts all the added marking, paperwork
sometimes I'd rather do a typical 9 - 5 job
but thanks for asking

Answer 4

You took 105 words, why do I only get 50? Teacher pay is based on actual work weeks. They can have their pay split over 12 mos. Many teachers work nights and weekends: sports coaches, academic team coaches, and band teachers. They may work 12 hrs/day, 2 - 3 days/week. Many also teach Summer school.

Answer 5

Counting the hours they have to do at home?
I taught in a highschool for 3 months back in the early 70's, and I can honestly say that teachers have all my respect. They would deserve to be very well paid.
EDIT:
Teachers are often obliged to take courses during the summer.

Answer 6

I am an FE lecturer; so I teach for 42 weeks of the year, 38 hours a week.

The break down of this is 27 hours of classroom teaching and 11 hours of preparation.

In the preparation time we have to act as personal tutors (for about 15-20 students), this included teaching them about personal safety, sexual health, eating healthily, being happy etc. Organising guest speakers, making sure that their ema payments have gone through, amending registers (both handwritten and electronic versions, submitting lesson plans, submitting schemes of work, internally verifying your preparation and classroom activities, having your preparation and classroom activities externally verified, conducting teaching and learning observations, participating in student forums, inclusive learning forums, staff forums and quality assured forums. Marking work, contacting students about late/poor work, making appointments with the college counsellor/student connexions for your students, submitting pay-claims.

The rest of the time we are teaching.

7 weeks holiday, yes OK that seems excessive, but we work our bleeding arses off, moulding and modelling the very people who you will rely on in your later years.

mrben

Answer 7

In school holidays they plan and prepare lessons and mark student work. They also put in unpaid hours every week training, seeing parents and on extracurricular activities.

We all have the right to whinge about our job - I know I do - so why not teachers?

49 words!

Answer 8

lol I like the last sentance. I think it's mainly to do with them having to do a lot of work outside of the school - most teachers i know stayed until about 7pm then went home and did more work. But they do get a lot of holidays I agree!!

Answer 9

Contract says 1928 hrs per year - you do 1920! Most do many more than contract - government initiatives (not too long a word for you, is it?) insist books must be marked with clear guidelines for achievement and improvement ........ and that's just the start of it! (45 words!)

Answer 10

My comment - you should have paid more attention to your teachers in your English lessons. Spelling not a strong point. Maybe if you'd listened, you would have also got a better job than the one you're currently in.
Frm Mr T. Eacher