Sentences with phrase «teachers working long hours»

Teachers working long hours, with low pay, in crowded schools can not give each individual student the attention they need.

One of the more common claims about work conditions is that teachers work longer hours than nonteachers.

Charter teachers work longer hours because their schools stay open later, and some ask teachers to be at the other end of a phone when students are stuck on a homework problem.

According to a new study by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), teachers work the longest hours at 50 hours per week during term time, followed by police officers (44) and nurses (39).

Primary classroom teachers worked longer hours - 59.3 hours - than their secondary school counterparts, who worked for 55.7 hours per week.

Not exact matches

While I was in Chile I worked long hours as an English teacher and rarely picked up a pencil or drew, except for a few life - drawing courses I did during one summer.

But after one hour - long talk describing some of his work in human - centered computing, such as flying drones with brainwaves, their teachers report a turn - around in their perceptions, Gilbert said.

Indeed, our members appreciate the commitments involved with a demanding career: many work in the corporate environment, or in jobs that require long hours (like single teachers, or single nurses).

«Teachers are placed under enormous pressures to mold the young minds of tomorrow, but are expected to do so with less wages than their peers, and by working longer hours.»

Kids can hardly complain about the long hours or heavy workload, because their teachers — 60 of them, mostly in their 20s or early 30s — work just as hard, or harder.

The study included all education workers, but the TUC has said that the «overwhelming majority» of those working long hours were teachers.

There has been plenty of press coverage about their corps of very devoted, accomplished teachers who put in long hours and take great pride in their work.

After spending hours over the summer searching online for material to enhance their courses, then bookmarking the links on their computers or assembling them on class Web sites, teachers later find that many of the links no longer work.

Parents started putting in longer hours than the teachers, sprucing up the old building with new coats of paint and working alongside the children to add creative murals and amenities.

I know some teachers are very conscientious and work long hours but I simply do not believe that the average high school teacher is working 11.1 hours per day.

Teachers at LACES probably have more work to do than their counterparts in other districts schools, but the longer hours for staff members pay off in the relationships they build with students and peers, Rutschman said.

According to the report, U.S. teachers work 1,913 hours over a 180 day school year that is 36 weeks long.

Long and unmanageable working hours are the biggest single reason cited by teachers for leaving the profession.

The report also found that teachers are working longer hours with bigger classes than in most other developed countries.

The standard time diary methodology suggests that a teacher's working day is almost ten hours long when work outside school hours is factored in.

«Our analysis shows that long working hours is one of the main barriers to improving teacher retention, an issue that is consistent with our previous reports in this series, and that working hours have been increasing over the last five years.

It shows that the long hours that teachers work during term time exceed the amount of extra holiday time they may receive.

Primary school teachers: long hours, regular sacrifices and under pressure to work when ill, but 90 % say they are fulfilled

Mr Leckie said:» «Teachers are under tremendous pressure from heavy workloads and long working hours.

She added, though, that if teachers are going to work longer hours, their pay needs to reflect that.

In the book, we note that charter school teachers report working longer hours, receiving fewer benefits, and are more likely to cite frustration as a reason for leaving.

His comments follow a recent OECD report which found that teachers in England worked longer than the OECD average, with many working as long as 60 hours per week when marking and additional administrative tasks were taken into account.

They noted the OECD 2015 Education at a Glance report, which showed that Australia's teachers are among the best paid in the world, at an average yearly salary of $ 78,305, but this is offset by working longer hours.

However, while I was clearing my credential, working with mentor teachers to reflect on my practice, and finding out how real students differed from theoretical ones, I also spent long hours after school with the speech and debate team reading philosophy and theory and talking about innovative alternatives for national defense, natural resource allocation, and, of course, education.

Their business model often involves a high turnover of teaching staff, because teachers are expected to work long hours, sometimes sixty to seventy hours weekly, plus be available by cellphone at all hours to their students.

The latest survey saw a big drop in the proportion of teachers who agreed to respond, raising fears that those who were working the longest hours might be more motivated to reply.

However, returning teachers also reported lower satisfaction with their jobs, less job security, less autonomy over their work, longer work hours, and less satisfaction with the evaluation process.

It seems difficult enough attracting effective teachers and leaders to work long hours at modest salaries in New Orleans; doing it throughout Louisiana is unrealistic without a major change in the educator labor market.

Boston teachers deserve to be remunerated for working longer hours.

Because many teachers also have second jobs, they no longer have the option of working an extra 20 to 30 hours grading papers.

The most obvious manifestation is an out - of - control workload, whereby teachers work 19 per cent longer hours than the OECD average.

The most recent Department for Education survey on teachers» working time only told us what we already knew: teachers are working excessively long hours — well over 50 hours per week on average.

Though high - performing teachers typically work long, unpredictable hours, traditional teacher contracts both set strict limits on hours and are extremely prescriptive about what responsibilities can be assigned within those limited work days.

«However, if their outstanding results rely on recruiting outstanding teachers who are willing to work exceptionally long hours, then their success isn't something we can replicate across the system because such teachers are a scarce resource.»

Our own data on attitudes is also completely contrary to the statement that «despite longer working hours and a background of falling real - terms pay, teachers remain satisfied with their jobs and incomes».

The reasons that teachers in England work longer hours than their counterparts elsewhere in the world are many and varied.

A number of studies have shown that charter school teachers are asked, on average, to work longer hours than traditional school teachers do, which has also led to a higher burnout rate.

To further strengthen the relationship between evaluation and instruction, TAP requires schools to have weekly, hour - long cluster meetings in which TAP - trained master teachers work with teams of teachers of a particular subject or grade level.

The county teachers have complained that they've been working long hours because the lesson plans have not been available until just weeks before they are to be taught and the website to access those lessons has been difficult to use.

I spent many long hours in CERAS while I worked on my master's degree and teaching credential in the Stanford Teacher Education Program, back in 1994 - 95.

In an unusual move, Baltimore County teachers filed a grievance this week against the county school board saying new education initiatives are forcing them to work long hours beyond their normal day.

He insisted the charter is not an expectation that teachers must work two hours longer but rather a cap on the otherwise unlimited hours they can be expected to spend planning and marking once the school day is finished.

Respondents to the government's workload challenge survey cited accountability as the major driver of unnecessary workload which has led to teachers and leaders working, on average, a 58 - hour week, and school leaders even longer.

Imagine a fifth year teacher named Pat, who has outstanding skills and works long hours.

He said teachers in England worked longer hours than the OECD average, but spent the same amount of time in front of a class.