Part-time teaching hours

[gcsmember]

I currently work 2 days a week in a Primary School as one half of a Year 2 job share. The days are long 7.40am - 6pm and then I usually spend time on planning at home. What do you think is a reasonable number of hours to be WFH on planning?

My sister teaches part time, 2.5 days. From what I have seen this simply frees up her weekends as she still works at home during the week to keep on top of things.

" any additional time as required to fulfil the professional requirements of the role" is the usual quote!

My personal take on it - which you may disagree with - is that a teaching day is a 12 hour gig. 6.5 of directed and a further 5.5 of work. So I try to limit my overall hours according this this rule of thumb. When I was on a 3 day contract I tried to limit my overall work hours to 36 (12 hours per teaching day). Now that I’m on a 4 day contract I try to limit overall hours to 48.

Work out the hours you would accept for a full time post. Divide by 5 and multiply by 2.
No way is any job worthy of being a 12 hour thing on a regular basis (it might be at a crunch time of year, or in a new job, but 50% of the day for years and years? No way)

I'm 0.4 and I'm in by 8am and leave usually around 5:30pm. I do around 3-4 hours on a Sunday, sometimes more depending on what's happening that week.

I'd say 40% of whatever you would consider reasonable for full time.

The main thing someone said to me when I went part time is to be very aware of job creep. Just because you have more time, doesn't mean it needs filling with work.

Same as likeafishneedsabike
All the years I worked PT, I used to stop when I had done the equivalent (across the week) of 3/5 of the 55 - 60 odd hours I used to work FT - So, when I worked 3 days, I would say 'that's it' when I got to somewhere between 33 and 36 hours a week.