3 days teaching contract

[AbenaRose]

I have chosen to reduce my teaching hours from full time to 3 days and my new contract indicates that I will be working 19.5 hours a week. Can someone please help me to understand this. Thanks

Do you mean how the hours make 3 days? At our school a day is 7 hours but we are paid for 6.5 hours as lunch is unpaid, so that would be 3 days of 6.5 hours.

Are you in primary or secondary? Secondary it would normally be measured as a percentage of a full timetable. So you might be in school for three days but your pay would depend on how many lessons you are teaching.

That sounds right to me, though they have rounded up slightly.

A full time teacher would expect to have 1265 hours a year of directed time which has to be done over 195 days. That's 6.487 hours of directed time on each of the 195 days.

You will be doing 3 days a week. 3 x 6.487 = 19.461.

It looks fine but just make sure you keep an eye on the other stuff. Directed time should be 0.6 (presuming your 3 days are 0.6 of full time), so that usually means you'd do no more than 0.6 of things like parents evenings, meetings, and PD days. And remember you can't be directed to work on your non-contracted days. If they ask you to do a parents evening on a day you don't work for example, you don't have to do it, but if you choose to, you should be paid extra for it.

Thank you so much for your responses. I am very grateful.

I work in Primary and as of September, I will be working Monday to Wednesday.

Be careful to make sure u have 0.6 of PPA allocation. Shockingly poor provision in primary I know. I'm in secondary and I worked my fortnightly PPA out as 4.8 lessons on 4 days- tried to tell me that was 4- err no