8/31/2023 0 Comments Working hours of tower2When I asked her if she felt that the extra hours she was putting in could be considered as part of her continual professional development and advancing her career, she replied with the following: The above respondent said she worked in Spain and as a relative beginner in the TEFL industry (she has been a TEFL teacher for three years), she feels the need to be doubly prepared and spends a lot of her time on lesson preparation. Why so unregulated? For every hour I work in classroom and am paid, I do two more in unpaid prep and marking. Considering the fact that the per contact hour rate isn’t very high for many language school teachers in the first place, I guess I wasn’t hugely surprised when I heard some disgruntled voices of teachers who felt undervalued and underpaid, and responded to my question about working hours with the following sentiments: should be done in the teachers’ own time. In my last blogpost, I decided it would only be fair to first share my own experience with the working hours I have had to do working in the ELT industry, and I promised that in part of 2 of this series, you would be hearing a variety of voices on this matter.Īs I mentioned in my previous post, many language schools tend to only pay for contact hours (the actual hours spent teaching) and assumes that prep time and marking, etc. I received an interesting range of viewpoints which I felt compelled to share with you. A few weeks ago, I posed this question on Twitter and Facebook:ĭo you spend a lot of your time outside your teaching hours doing prep, marking and general admin work? Do you get paid for these extra hours? How do you feel about that?
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