How much teaching do you do?

[peppermintteadrinker]

I had an interesting chat with colleague from another uni and I think the split of workload varies greatly.

I feel a bit gaslighted at my place. I know my allocation increased but they claim it didn't 🤔

My role:

0.8
Course leadership
Teaching only contract
Academic Tutor
Admissions Tutor
Teach 7 modules per year. Each module is around 3 hours per week so 12 hours one semester and 9 the other.
Half a day per week of meetings

So one semester I get 1.5 days to prep x4 modules, do tutorials, and all other course related admin including reports. The other semester is a bit more admin time but then have to deal with timetabling etc.

I know my allocation increased but they claim it didn't

Have you asked to see the workload allocation? This kind of information should be transparent.

I’m course leader
admissions lead
teaching only contract, full time.
module lead for three modules.

think I added it up to 190 hours per year actual teaching.

Teaching only contract 1.0 fte

Teaching contact time probably north of 300 hours. Marking on top of that probably similar number

Thing is, on a teaching-only contract, you don't have that much to do (I know, I know) over the vacation periods. You have teaching-related admin and scholarship, but I am just today procrastinating on planning out the next 8 weeks with military precision to get a book finished by October.

It sounds harsh, but as an ex-HoD, I found organising the workload of my colleagues who were teaching-only, to be a bit frustrating. Because there ARE only so many modules you can teach each term, without going totally crazy, and yet there are periods outside of teaching terms (especially the summer) when there's little to do. So workload balance is quite hard to organise for teaching-only staff, especially those on more than 0.5 FTE.

And for comparison, as a lecturer on a research & teaching contract, when I started out, I taught 3 modules per term, each with 4 hours of teaching attached (that doesn't include prep & marking, or office hours).

So 12 hours per week over 3 terms. Plus the usual Departmental "citizenship" such as a fortnightly staff meeting, admissions interviews, and admin & personal tutoring for my modules.

I didn't have a major admin role, but I was expected to produce a book and/or a research grant application in my first 3 years. I teach in the Humanities.

Depends on the course. Our students get six weeks off each year only. They’ll be on campus into august.

@DollyParkin Don't you also have marking?

Exactly the same for me (health course) - we teach on a rolling timetable with multiple in year starts. So there is no term time for us and maybe a fortnight over Christmas when there's no students around

Our VC's and senior team wishing us a lovely summer every year and how we can now concentrate on our research/take leave always grates

Prof at RG uni in science. One module per year = 20hrs
Also some minor admin roles and a lot of student supervision at PhD and MSc level

7 modules is A LOT.

@Acinonyx2 yes, of course! In my first job, I had teaching admin, prep, marking etc plus teaching around 12 hours a week. Two modules of my own, one team taught module.

Now, as a professor, I teach around 2 -3 modules a year, plus I have 6 PhD students, and a large funded research project. Plus I've just finished chairing a national scholarly organisation, and I volunteer for another and chair one committee for that. Plus, I referee/review probably about 4 journal articles & 2 book manuscripts annually. Plus a major admin job and a lot of formal & informal mentoring of others.

I find it hard to take my annual leave, and I work 6 days a week.

Not as lofty as uni but I was a TA in a Primary School.

Teachers work for ten sessions a week.. 5 mornings and 5 afternoons.

Teacher I worked for had...

1x session for PPA
1x session for SLT
1x session for Year Group Leadership
1x session for Mentoring
1x session subject leader time

She was a part time teacher and I had to fill in, reluctantly.

I'm on a 0.5 teaching fellow contract
I am module lead for 6 modules (e.g, create, plan, teach, assess)
Teaching time is:
2 x 40 hours
3 x 16 hours
1 x 60 hours
Them marking between 1 and 4 assignments per module which varies depending on number of students, planning, reading to keep up with the subject area admin etc. I don't do any research and don't feel sad about that although I'm very aware that makes me super low status.
I added up hours for my overall workload one year and it came out at 23hrs a week on average, so more than I'm paid for but there's no shifting management about it and I've decided it suits me ok.

probaly similar to parietal

prof at RG uni, on R&T contract
1.5 modules for about 20hrs contact teaching
marking
loads of phd and msc supervision

I am Humanities at a RG, on a standard R&T contract.
As HoD this year I had about 80 contact hours, over 3 modules.
When I was not HoD it was about double that, and I had a very heavy admin role (Assessment officer).
But my sense is that there is little transparency overall (huge differences between institutions, between departments, between individuals in a department), in ways that I don't think would be allowed to fly in other sectors. I joined my department as research fellow, so I was supposed to have very little teaching, and by my second year I was teaching more than some R&T colleagues, all the while being told that my teaching was indeed "minimal".