Hi Turino,

Sorry, I mustn't have made myself clear in my previous posts. The total hours expected, including contact hours, preparation, meetings, marketing etc. is 40 hours. Some teachers manage to finish all their responsibilities well under that. The total contact hours is approx 22 off-peak, I think it might go up to 24 during the 5 months of peak season. They also pay for any over-time during the month (calculated by month, not week, which can be annoying). I agree with you that teaching is very hard, planning lessons and actually teaching is very tiresome. I was doing 25 contact hours per week last year in Ireland and I found it difficult to maintain the quality of lessons. So I just want to make it clear that they didn't ask for 40 contact hours, it was actually a reasonable working schedule which allowed teachers ample preparation time.

Owen