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Teaching System in your country!
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BashayerS
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Teaching System in your country!
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I always had this question in my mind and i kinda searched a little bit here and there but i really couldnt find a satisfying answer.
Since i joined this website recently. I find it a good opportunity to ask the teachers community here about the following:
1- How many classes do you teach?
2- Do you teach just one curriculum?
3- How many students do you have in each class?
4- Do you only teach English Language?
5- Do you prepare for your lessons in a special written form?
6- Do you give your classes and go home? or do you have to stay till specific time?
7- Do you do administrative duties other than teaching? like taking absence- watch shifts - supervising etc..??
8- Do you have an assistant?
9- Do you feel appreciated for your work? or disappointed?
10- How about your salary?
I just wanted to know about these technical things because i want to compare it to our system here in Kuwait.
Many thanks and i hope to get answers from different countries :)
Miss Bashayer
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18 Apr 2009
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Carcade
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Hi!
I �m a teacher from Russia. I work with preschoolers (from 2,5 - 7) and also with students.
I �ll give you the answers, but I think you also can write about Teaching System in Kuwait. I think it is interesting very much!
So:
1. Preschoolers 12 classes, students 4
2. I have different curriculum for all ages
3. Preschoolers are abot 9, and students more than 15
4. I teach the English language, but I also know German
5. For preschoolers I give the model lesson (it can be play) every half-year period, with students I choose only one group at the end of year.
6. After my classes I usally go home.
7. I only teach.
8. I don �t have assistance with students, but with preschoolers I have accompanyist.
9. I like my work very much!!!!! And I do it with delight.
But in different schools there are different situation. i �m a teacher of privet school. State schools have other rules.
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18 Apr 2009
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agkk
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Hi Bashayer, these questions have also apperared in my mind since I joined this community. We are teachers from all over the world and I also wonder what it is like in their countries. I teach in a high school in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Let me answer the questions in order:
1- I teach 4 classes at 3 different levels. Totally 26 hours a week.
2- If I do not misundersand; I teach one curriculum with different levels at different grades. I teach one 9th grade, two 10th grades and one 11th grade. They have different syllubus which follow each other.
3- I have 29 or 30 students in each class.
4- Yes, I only teach English.
5- We prapare annual plans for each level and we used to prapare daily plans. But in the last few years we are free to prapare the daily plans or not.
6- We give the lessons and go home. We don �t have to come eary if we don �t have early classes and we can leave if the classes finished.
7- Yes, we have lots of administrative duties like taking the absence, supervising, filling students files, contacting with parents and the most important and tiring one once a week a whole day watch shifts. We watch students in corridors, in canteen, evrywhere in the school during the breaks.
8- We don �t have any assistants.
9- Yes, I like my job although it has serious responsibilities.
Thanks for starting this discussion. I wonder other �s answers. Good night. (It �s half past ten here)
Ayşe
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18 Apr 2009
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kim82
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Hi..
What about salaries???? Thanks Miss Bashayer 4 starting this discussion...  |
18 Apr 2009
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GIOVANNI
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Hi Bashayer:
I also had the same questions in mind. I teach in Canada. Our country is bilingual and in Quebec the majority of people speak French.
I teach about 10 different classes ranging from beginners to advanced and teach about 30 to 35 hours per week.
I teach English Immersion, business classes and adult education. My classes range from one student to 23 students in each class. Normally, the business classes are private or a group of 7 or less. In adult education normally there are about 20 to 25 students, and in English Immersion about 15 students. I share the English Immersion with anothe teacher because this class involves 30 hours per week.
I only teach English, but I speak two other languages.
I prepare daily plans for my lessons and use both books and worksheets.
I give my lessons and am free to go home after my lessons.
In some classes we have administrative duties, and in some we don �t.
We do have assistants and we are much appreciated at our school, and it is a pleasure working together.
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18 Apr 2009
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agkk
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In Turkey, I got 1400 TL which makes 875 American dollars. This is for 15 hours teaching hours a week. I teach 26 hours. So for the rest I got about 190 US dollars more for a month. (But if there �s holidays or if we don �t go to school for some reasons we cannot get this extra part)
By the way, just an example for you to compare; my house rent is about 300 dollars a month.
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18 Apr 2009
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gilorit
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Hi Miss Bashayer
Here are some answers to your questions:
1. It changes every year. I work 24 hours a week. This year I teach 7th class , 9th class and I give extra helping lessons to a group of 8th class and another group of 9th class.
2. We have the national curriculum which is leveled.
3. In my 7th class I have 40 students, in the 9th I have 15, in the extra lessons I have 25 in each group
4. I teach English and I am a home-room teacher, so we have social classes together.
5.We make annual plans to each group., but there are changes during the year. We should prepare written lesson plans but I don �t really do it.
6. We give classes and go but we have many meetings and courses. I have a few responsibilities other than being an English teacher.
7. We have our administrative duties which are sometimes a great burden. We watch during the breaks, we escort trips etc.
8. No, I do not have assistants. I guide a student teacher twice a week so she helps me from time to time.
9.I feel appreciated most of the time. I love what I do and I do what I love ;-)
Orit |
18 Apr 2009
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marianpayel
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Hi! I �m from Argentina. These is the situation in public schools in my country:
1- Here we teach about 30 hours a week.
2- We have a different curriculum for each level.
3- The number of students depends on the size of the city, big cities about 30 st �s per class and in the little town where I teach about 15.
4- I only teach English.
5- We don �t have to write down a daily plan at secondary schools.
6- We give our classes and go home.
7- We don �t perform any administrative duties.
8- We don �t have an assisstant.
9- I like my job. But the problem in my country is that in order to make a living, we have to work in different schools and run from one place to another, sometimes including morning, afternoon and evening shifts. That �s the stressful part but I love teaching English.
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18 Apr 2009
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miss noor
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Hi Shosho,
Thank you for this nice discussion. I work in a private school. I have 24 periods a week.
I am a teacher in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia.
1- How many classes do you teach?
I teach six classes. I teach 1st secondary students
2- Do you teach just one curriculum?
Thank Allah, I teach only one curriculum
3- How many students do you have in each class?
about 22 students
4- Do you only teach English Language?
I only teach English Language.
5- Do you prepare for your lessons in a special written form?
I prepare my lessons in a simple special written form
6- Do you give your classes and go home? or do you have to stay till specific time?
I have to stay to one oclock pm
7- Do you do administrative duties other than teaching? like taking absence- watch shifts - supervising etc..??
I have to do a watch shift during the students � break once or twice a month.
8- Do you have an assistant?
No , I don �t have an assisstant
9- Do you feel appreciated for your work? or disappointed?
Thank Allah , I feel appreciated from my students , my principal and my supervisor.
I love my job very much. It was my dream.
Finally, I hope this is interesting to you
Waiting to hear from you about teaching system in your country.
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18 Apr 2009
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jovance
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Hi! I �m from Macedonia and i teach in a public school.
1. Here we teach from 20 to 24 hours a week.
2. This year I teach 7 classes (5th,8th and 3rd) . We use different curriculum.
3. The number of students is from 20 to 26.
4. I only teach English.
5. We prepare annual, monthly and daily plans.
6. After classes I usually go home.
7. Yes,we have administrative duties like taking the absence, meetings with parents, filling students files etc.
8 I don �t have an assistant.
9. I like my job. My only problem is that I work in another town about 40 km away from the town where I live,so I have to travel every day.
About the salary I get 250 euros and I hardly manage till the end of the month. Unfortunately teachers in my country are not well paid.
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18 Apr 2009
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teacherlupe
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Hello
1.- I teach two classes of students about 9 and 10 years and two classes of 4 years old. Two of 4� grade of Primary and two of 2� of infant.
2. I teach two curriculums, infants and primary.
3. about 23 students.
4 . I teach English and Science in English, because my school is bilingual and we must teach more subjects in English.
5. I prepare my classes in a normal written form.
6. We have teachers meeting but before lunch because we have class in teh morning and in the afternoon.
7. I have to do adminitrative duties filling a lot of documents.
8. Yes I have an assistant, but no all the time.
9 I feel appreciated for my students, sometime, but in general people think that the teachers have a lot of holidays.
I like my job but somedays I think that I would like to change because the students do not pay attention, but this idea changed in my mind when they speak English or the smaller one give you a hug and say Hello teacher!
Bye Bye
Guadalupe from Leganes- Madrid-Spain |
18 Apr 2009
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