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Primary school teachers are required to teach 791 hours per year in public institutions on average. In most countries and economies with available data, daily teaching time ranges from three to six hours a day, with an OECD average of more than four hours per day.
Like any type of resource, teachers’ time can be allocated more or less effectively to promote positive outcomes for students. How school systems regulate teachers’ working time reflects diverse conceptions of the role of teachers and different strategies for making the most of their time.
On average across OECD countries and other participants, pre-primary teachers are required to teach 987 hours per year, spread over 41 weeks or 196 days (Table D4.1 and Figure D4.1). Primary school teachers are required to teach an average of 784 hours per year in public institutions.
overview of how teachers across the OECD report using their time and how their time use is regulated in national policy frameworks. Building on the findings from the OECD School
Teachers juggle classroom time, exams, lesson prep and marking. Non-teaching staff are faced with admin, finances, staffing, tech support and anything else needed to keep the school running. Whatever your role, this article offers tips to help you manage your workload and life goals productively.
This indicator focuses on the statutory working time of teachers at different levels of education as well as their statutory teaching time. Although working time and teaching time only partly determine the actual workload of teachers, they do give some valuable insights into differences among countries in what is demanded of teachers.
Time for Teachers looks deeply inside 17 schools that stand at the vanguard of the current revolution in teaching. This new National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) report reveals the substantive ways in which these schools are providing their teachers with more time to reflect on, develop, and hone their
