I’ve sort of started working (I’m just observing classes at the moment) but I do have a better idea of how my year is going to play out so here are the facts: I’ll be making €786.54 a month after taxes ($1,146.46). I’ll have health insurance (thank you socialized medicine!). I work 12 hours a week. Four and a half hours are spread over 3 different elementary schools - Ecole Montessuy, Ecole Albrecht and Ecole Herriot - in a little suburb north of Lyon called Caluire-et-Cuire where I’ll be teaching CE2, CM1, CM2 (respectively 3rd, 4th and 5th grade). In each school, I’m to give two 45 minute English lessons in two different classes on Mondays and Thursdays. Do the math and you find that I have 6 different classes that see me once a week for 45 minutes. In addition to that, 6 hours a week are dedicated to me working in Lyon where I’ll be creating and aiding in the creation of audio-visual adult English tools. At least I think.
The latter half of my job is rather confusing so I’ll probably be revising what I’m writing right now but as it stands I have to work 180 hours with them between now and July 2nd. 124 of these hours are steady. We meet for 3 hours each week Tuesday afternoon where I’ll be meeting with my bosses and aiding them in creating audio-visual sequences aiding in the teaching of English as a foreign language*. These meetings will add up to 90 hours total. Then 18 hours will be spent doing Linguistic workshops on the following dates: October 14th, 21st, January 6th, 13th, March 10th, and 31st. My guess is that I’ll be speaking English to a bunch of adults in a classroom... but I’m not too sure. Then for 6 hours I’ll be working in an “Internship workshop” on April 7th and 28th (whatever that means). And finally I’ll be writing a monthly one-page newsletter on whatever topic I want. They gave me one hour for each newspaper so that adds up to 9 hours.
Is you head hurting yet? Now those are the STEADY hours. There are still 57 hours that are still up in the air and my bosses aren’t even sure when I’ll need to be there nor in what capacity. On the sheet they gave me, they noted “Participation in visual communication exchanges, or the application of new technologies in foreign language classes, time needed to prepare workshops, creation of resources: recordings etc..”
In short, it’s going to be a very interesting year and I’m sure my agenda book will be saturated with ink.
In other news, I’m still looking for a place to stay but things seem to be winding down and I think that I should have a place here really soon. (crosses fingers) More on that later when I actually have my clothes out of the suitcase.
*Did John goad the ox with a poker?
No comments:
Post a Comment