Thanks for the replies! I'm teaching middle school and it will be 5 days online. 2 periods per grade. Not sure how many students will be participating yet.During the normal school online lessons, it was quite tedious to do games as there are at least 30+ students per class and it took a long time for them to get up and find things in their house for example. I was considering an animation/movie camp as it might easier than some other ideas. But am also thinking of preparing some art/craft things for them to do as well. Something that they can produce for a portion of the lesson.
I'm in almost the same boat: 2 grades, camp entirely online via live Zoom lessons, *three* 100-minute lessons every day for *two* weeks. I have absolutely no idea what to do. Luckily, I at least got them sorted into different proficiency levels (camp was supposed to be 9-12, 3 hours long, 30+ kids of mixed grades and English levels at the same time! I told them no effing way was that going to happen, I'd kill myself before attempting to manage that sh*tshow.)
I hope you're getting overtime for that. That's the equivalent of 7.5 elementary classes a day!
I'll be doing online winter camp for my elementary school using a book that has fairy tale excerpts and then questions about the story. 4 hours each day, one or two students at a time for 10-20 minutes (depending on how many sign up). We'll read through the story for that day and then answer the questions, and then the next day read the next story and etc. etc. It's going to be pretty boring and tedious but it was the easiest option for all of us since my school thinks that doing any kind of crafts would be too ambitious if the kids were at home :/ Good luck to anyone teaching camp over zoom, especially if you're expected to do as "traditional" a camp as possible. That's gonna be rough
They realized that would put me at overtime, so they changed it to 3 *85-minute* lessons instead of 100 minutes. They also said I can work from home, which is excellent! My school is pretty cool. They realize I legit just want what's best for my kids, even if that means more work for me.
Fair enough, your call. That still works out to about 33 hours per week though. Just saying, you can get the ~440k in overtime they'll owe you (assuming your contract is the same as most PS's), while still doing what's best for your kids.
Am I really bad at math, or are you? lol. Doesn't three 85-minute classes 5 days a week equal exactly under 22 hours a week? Am I missing something? Do camps have different rules about pay and teaching hours?
He's going by how Korean class hours are defined, which is by class period, not by an actual hour. Depending on what grade level you teach, 1 class hour is actually just 40, 45, or 50 minutes long. The rest of that hour is counted as a break, to give people time to use the restroom, fetch a drink, or prepare materials for their next class.If you're doing 85-minute classes, that's two class periods, regardless of age level. Doing that three times in one day is 6 class periods and therefore 6 class hours. Doing that for five days is over 30 class hours; therefore, you are working more than 22 class hours, which entitles you to overtime pay. That's the way it works. If you're not getting overtime pay, you're getting cheated.
I'm so confused.In my EPIK contract, it specifically states "22 instruction hours".... doesn't that mean "hours spent actively teaching"? There's nothing in my contract about "one teaching period = 1 instruction hour". Plus, it's camp. It's not like I need time to pack up and get to another classroom and set up again, so I have even less of a leg to stand on using that argument. I obviously don't want to get screwed over, but my contract wording makes it seem fairly straightforward that I'm not actually *instructing* over 22 hours so it's a non-issue.I tried talking to my coworker, who then talked to the head teacher, but they're using the wording of the contract as pretty obvious justification for keeping the schedule the same. What could I possibly say/do/point out to justify my insistence? I don't want to bring it up again unless I have some kind of proof :/
