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Increased Demand for Teachers

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    #32
    evolving_doors
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    draiochtanois wrote: »
    How many hours a year does a teacher work?

    Do you mean class contact time?


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    draiochtanois
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    #34
    spurious
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    When I was working, I was in school 8.30am to 4.30pm with a forty minute lunch 'hour' four days a week and till 1.30pm on Wednesdays. I would often do an additional two or three hours in the evenings at home. I used to try keep weekends free, but it didn't always work out.

    While in school, there was never really a 'free' class, unless I managed to leave the building I was always needed to do something - supervise a class while a colleague went to the toilet, deal with a sick child, unannounced parents, phone calls etc..

    I don't know, what does that work out at hours-wise? About 43 to 48 a week? Some times of the year it would be much more, with optional extra revision or project classes. That's not counting extra curricular stuff I used to do before the stupid Croke Park hours came in, it's also not counting said stupid CP hours.


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    draiochtanois
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    #36
    spurious
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    draiochtanois wrote: »
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    Yes and I would usually be free from about the third week of June*, then back in and out once the exam results were out, mid August.

    I used to do some CPD in July, but I copped on a good while before I actually left teaching.

    *There are lots of small things that mount up that can only be done when the children are not in class. I had to work around exam centres, but it was possible.


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