Question # 59 - Is overtime available when teaching ESL in Japan?
Overtime is not available.
Of course, the teacher can always moonlight, teach more, teach on the side, or work part-time doing something else…in a bar for example, to make more money. But there is no time and half for teaching more than the assigned classes.
There is no double time for teaching on the holiday.
My experience has been that if a teacher has spent 25 hours pouring themselves out in classes for kids 3 to adults 70, to groups of 40 or one on one to someone you must squeeze with a nutcracker to get a peep out of, the teacher does NOT want to teach more, and if they do, the quality suffers quite a bit.
20 good quality hours in front of students seems to be the limit to me.
16 hours-ish is a good teaching load.
pouring themselves out in classes for kids 3 to adults 70, to groups
of 40 or one on one to someone you must squeeze with a nutcracker to get a peep out of, the teacher does NOT want to teach more, and if they do, the quality suffers quite a bit. 20 good quality hours in front of students seems to be the limit to me.
16 hours-ish is a good teaching load.
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