Re:work load of school teachers
Glenn Humphreys (glenhump who-is-at soonet.ca)
Sun, 25 Jan 1998 18:54:49 -0500 (EST)
Dear Angel
As a high school teacher in Canada, I teach four classes: two of
them are 72 minutes long and two are 35 minutes long. The grade nine classes
are desemestered so they are half as long as the other two classes but run
for the whole school year. I have a maximum of 33 students in each advanced
level class, and a maximum of 28 students in general level classes except in
the grade nine classes where the maximum is 25 students. As an English
teacher I am expected to grade my students so that 30% of their mark is on
writing but there is no prescribed number of assignments to mark and the
administrators are not peering over my shoulder concerning my marking (at
least not yet).
"The teacher's duties also include taking care of extra-curricular
activities, talking to parents, doing individual counselling with students
who have emotional or academic problems. Teachers do not have any
assistants; they do everything including photocopying worksheets and
handouts, registering students' marks on mark sheets... etc." This is also
true in Canada.
Suzanne Humphreys
Glenn D. Humphreys
P.O. Box 11
Echo Bay, Ontario
Canada, P0S 1C0
Telephone: (705) 248-1226
Internet: glenhump who-is-at soonet.ca
Fax (Phone/Email to arrange fax transmission): (705) 248-1226